One of the most positive qualities of video technology is the opportunity to bring people from many countries, cultures and professional disciplines together for a common purpose to learn and grow professionally and even personally. Last weekend was such an experience with a diverse group of healthcare professionals from eleven countries, Asia, North America, and Europe coming together to experience Cervical Revolution. I always marvel at the dedication of not only the students in the live audience, some of whom traveled as far away as from Australia, Canada, and the West and East Coast of America, but the students that stay up in the middle of the night in their own time zone to attend a PRI course via Zoom!
Cervical Revolution is a course that integrates the cervical spine, cranium, and the beginning concepts of occlusion and its relationship to the entire body or stomatognathic system. This is a course that emphasizes arthrokinematic position and movement starting with the atlas and occipital bone and how that position driven through the Right TMCC pattern of eight muscles bilaterally is a consequence of neurology starting with left functional cortical dominance. The A/O articulation is considered highly neurologic because of it’s relationship to the brainstem and sensitivity to movement and pressure. In this course we touch upon the relationship of not only the brainstem but the amygdala, midbrain, thalamus, hypothalamus, ventricles, and olivary neurons as a starting spot of drivers of upright human existence and forward motor locomotion which is really an evolutionary topic. The need for tri-planer movement, alternation, and bilateral pressure sense management makes Cervical Revolution not only an Impingement and Instability course for the cervical spine and cranium, but is an introduction to the neurological aspects of the tertiary courses like Cranial Resolution, Voice Box Resonation, Cervical Occlusal Restoration and Forward Locomotor Movement.
In this course we had PT’s, DC’s, DDS’s, Orthodontists, Myofunctional Therapists, Osteopaths, an MD from Ireland, Strength and Conditioning Specialists, Soft Tissue Manual Therapists that attended from all over the world. As a faculty member I am always humbled by the dedication of students who spend two days, or two full nights, engaged and asking questions to help the entire group understand Cervical Revolution. One of the questions and restates was how does the entire kinetic chain connect and respond to the cervical spine. In this course we consider it a “right stance” course of the neck and the neck responds to the Left AIC, Right BC, and Right TMCC. As with every course, one of our goals is to restore alternation to the entire system via inhibition of dominate patterns driven by functional cortical dominance. In a brief description, 30-30-30 is the mantra for Cervical Revolution as that reminds us of the need to restore tri-planer alternating movement of the cervical spine.
Thank you all for you focused energy and interest over the two days we spent together and I hope you were all as inspired as I was to help facilitate your PRI Journey! And lastly I would like to thank RJ Hruska for facilitating the entire weekend getting to the institute early and leaving late to make sure everyone was well fed, had a microphone when asking questions, and made the powerpoint work perfectly for everyone in attendance. RJ’s presence always makes for a totally positive learning and teaching experience!
– Skip George
