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Blog Posts in September 2017

Myokinematic Restoration - Orlando, FL - Course in Review

Just returned from the Sunshine State where I enjoyed a weekend with a warm group of mostly Floridian movement scientists discussing acetabular-femoral position's effect on laterality and the ability to enjoy balance in gait for the full gamut of athletes--seated to high flying. Thoroughly enjoyed the discussions about integrating PRI primary course principles into all populations, treating forwardly rotated coxal bones with triplanar effectiveness, and application of specific, appropriate techniques.

Thank you South Lake Hosptial's Lynn Rizzo for your energy and passion for a career rejuvenated with PRI principles to serve your patients better. Thank you Megan Bollinger for your first class lab assist and for the opportunity to meet your husband. Thank you Mary Jo Murphy for your engaging discussion regarding application of PR regarding compliance, to Hector Cabezas, Courtney "Co" Stearn and Bergi Dixon and Christian Marks for your engaging attitudes and questions throughout. Thanks Alphonso Jones, Jeff Banfield, Martin Ramiz and Will Zihlman for helping showcase particular neuromechanical patterned tendencies during our lab.

On a weekend where most participants had been through a couple weeks of significant change prior to and following Hurricane Irma, I felt nothing but welcomed by all course participants during a weekend that passed like a blink! Thanks Orlando, looking forward to PRI nation flourishing in your region!

Jesse Ham, CMP, PRC, PRI Faculty Member

Posted September 28, 2017 at 10:30AM

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Pelvis Restoration - Atlanta, GA - Course in Review

I thoroughly enjoyed my weekend with an integrated group of clinicians at One on One Physical Therapy in Atlanta Georgia. I taught Pelvis Restoration for the first time since we updated the material to use the HABLT vs. the HADLT for progression of treatment. The test surely is a better assessment tool for the frontal plane of proximal pelvic control. My course attendees were almost an even split of those that were sitting in their first PRI course and those that were very experienced with the science. There were many questions and scenarios discussed and I of course love sharing my clinical pearls to help course attendees understand how to integrated PRI into their treatment plans.

My hostess was fantastic! Karen Warren and her colleagues were gracious and she is excited about hosting future PRI classes! I was joined by Kristen Spencer and Adrian Baker as my lab assistants. These ladies did a great job helping the class during lab and supporting me this weekend. It is always fun to have my friend Liz Caughey, DDS in a PRI class. So cool that she as a dentist wants to understand PRI science as it relates to everything other than just teeth. This lady is so cool. A special shout out to Henry Pursner for making sure my technology was working and my coffee cup was always full. I was well taken care of this weekend.

On a personal note, my heart goes out to all of those recently affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. I was fortunate to be able to stay with my sister Jacki and her family this weekend as they reside just north of the perimeter in Alpharetta! I was able to fly out of Atlanta on Monday am just before Irma unleashed on Atlanta! I did get home in time to watch my daughter play her cross county rivalry Volleyball game. They came back after being down 0-2 and in the third set 19-24 to win in 5 sets of Volleyball!!

Jennifer Poulin

Posted September 12, 2017 at 9:49AM

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Myokinematic Restoration - Wilmette, IL - Course in Review

As a PRI Instructor, it's not often we have the opportunity to have a true "home game," but that's what we had this weekend with Myokinemtic Restoration. I had the opportunity to teach and collaborate with a great group of individuals with diverse backgrounds in my home clinic. And, since it was a home game, it was great to collaborate with my co-worker, Donna Parise Byrne, PT, PRC. We had a fantastic discussion about the positional tests in PRI, and how to look at them differently now that we can find and appreciate the human asymmetry inherent in the L AIC pattern. We had the opportunity to find and feel muscles during the lab section, and we had a great demo regarding how to approach an individual who has a more of a PEC presentation than a L AIC presentation. We talked about there are times to be "Batman," and times to be "Bruce Wayne." We talked about our Internal Rotation Boy Band and why we need to keep the band together. And we talked about how the hamstring is the Gate Keeper of the Gait Cycle. My thanks to Zach Lloyd, Jayson Leisenring, and Elizabeth Manning for being our models for the course, and allowing us to learn from them. It was great to have my friend of 15 years, Rick Noelte, in attendance as well. And great questions and dialogue with Susan Rocchini, Erik Smith, Aaron Doering, Julia Glick, Hetal Patel, and Kim Greenstein. Everyone in the entire group had great questions, and it was a pleasure to have everyone at our "home game!"

Dan Houglum, MSPT, ATC/L, PRC

Posted September 12, 2017 at 8:39AM

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Albuquerque, NM - Postural Respiration - Course in Review

The Institute of Community Wellness and Athletics (ICWA) hosted Postural Respiration in Albuquerque, NM Sept. 9-10. This course was a faculty member's dream! Most of the class attendees were brand new to PRI or had only taken Myokin or a home study course previously. From the very start, the curiosity and attention was palpable and students followed closely every step of the way into a PRI weekend journey of challenge and discovery. Questions were plentiful with great re-states of concepts and honest feedback that, yes, the amount of information in this course can feel daunting for first time attendees but they wanted to hang in and work hard to really get it! The questions directed repetition from many angles that led to understanding of the basic principles of PRI. One of the many topics that vexes new attendees ( It certainly vexed me at first!) is Superior T-4 Syndrome. What helped was a strong foundation that everyone absorbed on rib kinematics driving a spinal column and that ribs are driven by respiration and respiration is driven by neurological patterns. These guys got it. What helped for the strength and conditioning group was that scalenes are like "Romanian Dead Lifters" lifting upper ribs creating a patho-mechanical pattern of respiration. Before lecture on James Anderson's page 50 in the Appendix on Thoracic Airflow, Typical BC and Superior T-4 Syndrome, the class had had a demonstration on a "long tall Sally/Sam" that demonstrated BC testing, then manual restoration techniques including Superior T-4 technique to assess for Superior T-4 Syndrome and then identifying when and why a manual Subclavius Release is needed. Then they assessed and practiced the two manual techniques after being shown what the reasoning behind the assessment and manual approach. The lecture into Page 50 just made sense to these new students since they could apply a concept to actual experience that they just practiced in lab and could now apply since they had a better picture in their minds as to what patho-mechanical respiration is and how to identify and treat with manual and non-manual techniques. The enthusiasm, especially on Sunday afternoon after an information/paradigm changing weekend can feel over-whelming, was just great. Thank you Nathanael Smith and Jonathan Esquibel for being great site hosts and especially Jessica Kisiel, PRT for assisting! In this faculty member's opinion, New Mexico will be a great new state for PRI and I hope to be invited back! Myokin will be there February 2018!