Last weekend, I traveled to Annapolis MD with my husband Chris to teach Myokinematics of the Hip and Pelvis. Now that we are officially “empty nesters”, he is always willing and able to come along to help me during labs and provide a different perspective to PRI application. For those who don’t know, Chris is an athletic trainer and strength coach with a special interest in golf rehab and fitness. The course attendees were mostly new to the science of PRI. This is not at all strange for this course and it is a great place to start learning PRI. We discussed concepts of cortical dominance and forward locomotor movements as well as how to control their sympathetic nervous systems, get into proper position of both their legs in AFIR and AFER.
This group of attendees included PTs, PTAs, chiropractors, massage therapists and a physician from Walter Reed! I love how PRI continues to reach out into multiple arenas of clinical practice and disciplines. Thank-you to Ray for being a great host and giving us an amazing dinner recommendation for Saturday night. Annapolis is beautiful and the crab cakes at O’Leary’s were delicious. When in Rome!
In this rendition of myokin we explored the history of the management of hip instability and using the Hruska Adduction Lift score as a evaluation tool to help progressions of treatment. The group was small enough that we had a lot of time for questions and demonstrations of both facilitation and inhibition techniques. Myokin is a special course and often a great way for new clinicians to cut their teeth on an area of our anatomy that was familiar. It was fun to discuss how many clinicians were noticing asymmetries in the patients and now that had a PRI lens to go back to help their patients and clients.
I look forward to seeing these faces in future courses!
– Jennifer Poulin
