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Blog Posts in March 2017

If someone were to ask me to describe the ideal setting, attendees, topic, and timelines for a PRI Course that I would want to organize and create, I would have responded the following way.   First, I would truly like to instruct and teach in our PRI home, our Institute, our place of study, work and fun, our resource center, our reference center, and our service center where we can serve nourishment both in the form of food and didactical discussion.   Second, I would invite a mix of course attendees and disciplines that were new to PRI; and some that took the first offered PRI courses offered years ago. (Joan Hanson and Lori Thompsen you will always remain young in my heart and mind).  Third, I would limit the class to 20 attendees to maximize the individual interaction and participation.  Fourth, I would want to have lunch with all of them and talk about things that they wanted to talk about with me. Fifth, I would pick objectives and subject matter related to the head, neck, teeth, vision, and neuro-patterning.   Sixth, I would hold the course on a Friday and Saturday and I would do it at the astronomical beginning of spring in the Northern Hemisphere or mid-March.   And finally, I would like to participate with some professionals that I work with in this community, since I lecture and talk to so many attendees, that work in different disciplines and also in different communities.   Pat Brinkman-Falter BSDH, MS, RDH,CO,  Susan Christiansen DDS,  Janae Greer PT, DPT,  and Charissa Johnson PT,ATC, thank you for coming to this community educational course.   I respect and appreciate you all so much.   I look forward to each and every course that is hosted here in Lincoln Nebraska, home of the PRI minds.  

Posted March 30, 2017 at 2:11PM

Our ability to acquire new passions, interests, and behavior requires recognition of our nescience and curiosity.   I met Wren McLaughlin, I believe, in 2012, at a Temporal Mandibular Cervical course and remember how much diverse interest this women’s health clinical specialist had in so many areas.   In an unintentional way she has a psychoenergetic sense to her that has resonated with me ever since;  yet she reminded me that she has never taken a “psychology” course.  Her gift of coherence is truly remarkable and her students get a course on psychology every time they hear her.   That is why I am so happy she agreed to talk about how to fully stay creative by establishing a stable sense of self for those new, challenging, provoking and “unstable” opportunities or patterns that you do not want to miss or recognize for life changing enjoyment.  This could be the presentation that you will not forget because of the way she “unlocks” those that are too certain and too stable.   It is not too late to unlock your schedule and register for this symposium to hear this speaker. 

Register HERE

Posted March 23, 2017 at 10:07AM

IFAST! Indianapolis was the location of Myokinematics where I spent this past weekend. Many people are aware of IFAST and the team of Bill Hartman, Mike Robertson, Ty Terrell, Jae Chung, Lance Goyke and Tony Giuliano. These are good guys with good hearts. This was a weekend of fun and fellowship as well as fantastic learning. Bill Hartman was a fantastic host to a large group of attendees. Many were first timers to PRI and found the course to be a paradigm shift and a "game changer" as one of them put it. I had the best time this past weekend as I got the opportunity to sit and listen to Dan Houglum MSPT, ATC/L, PRC, one of our newest instructors. Dan took the reins and led the class both days and taught them about the power of human asymmetrical movement and how to control pathological compensatory strategies. As always the class was enlightening and informative and if you are planning a foray into the world of PRI then I would suggest this "front door" of entry called Myokinematics.

Posted March 14, 2017 at 9:13AM

There is not a week that goes by in my world of PRI practice that someone does not either lament about or experience dizziness, motion sickness or nauseousness.    I had the opportunity to talk Dr. Thomas Stoffregen over two years ago about his work related to Motion Sickness and since then have read many, is not most of his articles that have been published on motion sickness as a movement disorder.  He works at the School of Kinesiology in Minneapolis MN and I can still recall the very first article I read that he wrote about this topic of “motion sickness” happening when we acquire unstable control of bodily orientation.  Also he believes recovery begins when we reacquire stable control of the body.  His suggestion that the symptoms similar to motion sickness or those that are related to motion sickness, arise from a temporary or transient movement disorder.  This was very intriguing to me, because of my recognition of similar events that occur at a time where adaption to asymmetry appeared to be very highly correlated with symptoms of dizziness, nauseousness and motion sickness.  These correlations were becoming even more evident based when the patients I evaluated were also being evaluated and co-treated with other integrative disciplines. 

Dr. Stoffregen will be presenting on both days of this year’s Interdisciplinary Integration Symposium and his experience and research will help all of us understand how those who have spent life on the moving sea and require a period of adaptation to “get their sea legs” can also help us better understand ways to control and stabilize the moving body with “their land legs”.   I have enjoyed every conversation I have had with him and look forward to meeting him personally because of his passion to study an area that I see every day, or week, with patients who believe they are on a water based vessel.   His direct comment to me was, “I would like to relate classical motion sickness to dizziness, migraine, concussion and quantitative ‘signatures’ of health that may exist in patterns of bodily movement.”   If you are working with patients who have dizziness and sea legs when on land you do not want to miss this presentation and discussion on how it relates to PRI patterns!

To learn more about Interdisciplinary Integration click HERE.

Posted March 13, 2017 at 9:11AM

Posted March 10, 2017 at 11:32AM

Precision Fitness hosted their first PRI course, Postural Respiration, this past weekend with about one third of the course being brand new to PRI and another third of the course being new to Postural Respiration. The balance of new attendees and new veterans provided a flow that kept everyone moving in a forward progression easily for the entire class to absorb and learn new material as well as deepen previous learning. This course was diverse in that their were numerous PT's from athletic departments at universities from Wake Forest to Florida State. An athletic trainer that works with solders was present and enthusiastic about taking his sixth course to deepen his skills with treating our fighting men and women. And Jennifer Smart, PT, PRC brought her wisdom and skill to make this weekend flow and to fill in any gaps of knowledge to aid in the teaching process. Did you know she has sailed halfway around the world in a sailboat with her family that her husband made? She also has a son who lives in a house that he made and just rode his bike to the tip of Baja California and back to the U.S.A.! Ole! There was so much enthusiasm from this group with a bunch of people wanting to become PRC's and PRT's. Cornelius may just be a new "hotbed" of PRI. Along with it being in the heart of Nascar racing!!

Posted March 7, 2017 at 10:42AM

Thank you Joey from Engineered Per4mance for hosting Pelvis Restoration in Iowa. We had 10 clinicians attending their FIRST PRI course. We had 5 P.T. students and 1 dental student in addition to physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, and a chiropractor. What an amazing group of individuals learning this past weekend. Trisha had an appropriate car decal on her truck “Pelvic Sorcery.” Of course we weren’t performing “black magic” on the pelvis, but we were applying the science and concepts of PRI to the complexities of the pelvic inlet and outlet. We need a pelvic diaphragm that can achieve a “zone of opposition” just like the respiratory diaphragm in left stance for correct forward propulsion in gait. If not, our patients will utilize the pelvic diaphragm as a postural stabilizer just like the respiratory diaphragm. Chew on that and realize the importance of opposition of the pelvic diaphragm by pelvic outlet abduction via the left obturator internus and illiococcygeus and the pelvic inlet adduction via the left iliacus. This pelvis frontal plane control allows our necks and ankles to wobble and trunks to rotate.

Posted March 6, 2017 at 3:25PM

The word “symposium” means a formal meeting at which experts deliver addresses on a topic that relates to a collection of opinions on a subject.    Remodeling dynamic perception and behavior for appropriate functional periods of time and places of neurologic “instability” is the subject of this year’s 9th Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium.  There probably is not a greater influencer on neuro-mechanical “over” or “hyper”compensation and “over” or “hyper” stabilization than pain.  That is why we asked Sue Falsone PT, MS, SCS, ATC, CSCS, COMT, RYT to give her perspective on the topic of pain and its influences on our intervention programs.   Her experience and practical methods that can be implemented to identify pain generators should help our patients, clients and athletes decrease this “over” or “hyper” drive for protection, stabilization and patterning.  The course attendee will not only appreciate the many perspectives of pain influencing functional outcomes but will also listen to a very well known and positive minded speaker who knows how to relate motor control or lack of to pain.

To learn more click here.

Posted March 3, 2017 at 2:47PM

I attended  a Myokinematic Restoration course this last weekend in NYC and I was scheduled to teach the course, but had the most wonderful opportunity to attend the course, as an attendee and an instructor assistant.  First of all, I always enjoy going to New York because it offers me the ability to spend time with my two grandsons, Maxwell and Dash, who live in the heart of the Meatpacking District.  I always enjoy the culture and the eclectic backgrounds of course attendees who live and come to PRI courses in  New York City.  And I appreciate, so much, the hospitality of the Finish Line Physical Therapy  staff.  Michael Conlon has become a good friend of ours and has accommodated us over the last few years in the most gracious manner.   However, this trip allowed me to see a new PRI faculty member instruct and mentor and teach me on how to “apply examination and assessment skills to neuromuscular dyssychrony and postural asymmetries that affect stability and function of the lower half”, or how to apply the third outlined objective for this course, in a manner that I have never experienced before. Dan Houglum MSPT, ATC/L, PRC held my attention the entire two days  and took me on a course that was historically and clinically presented through his lens, as a student of mine 20 years ago and as a PRI seasoned clinician and now a faculty member today.    Dan not only is one of our most prepared presentors but one of our most precision based and practical minded clinicians.  His comments on how “resistance” becomes “assistance” still resonates as I write this.  I was so proud to be his student and so humbled to be his assistant and know that any future course attendee that has the opportunity to hear him and listen to him will also be engaged and listened to, by him. 

Posted March 2, 2017 at 10:44AM

This Postural Respiration class was about 80% first time attendees to a PRI course. What was impressive was how good and how many questions were asked during the weekend. The questions were always relevant and "on point" helping to guide other students in their understanding of what can be an overwhelming experience for a first timer! This is when teaching a course is at its best when students are helping other students in understanding rib kinematics and the necessity of diaphragm shape and position as it relates to their rehab protocols and sport performance application. Erin Rajca did an incredible job as my lab assistant! Some of the questions included how does the shape of the left or right diaphragm reciprocate and alternate during dynamic activities like walking in different phases of gait? This is a first time hosting of a PRI course at this facility and the feedback on Sunday is that they want more! Thanks for hosting Apex Physical Therapy!

Posted March 1, 2017 at 4:00PM

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