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Blog Posts in 2011

This Saturday is the early registration deadline for our Myokinematic Restoration course being held in Oklahoma City, OK on October 8-9. In order for us to confirm the course, additional participants are needed by September 10th. Please register this week to receive the early registration rate and to ensure that this course will not be canceled. Thank you!

Course Location
Mercy Health Center
McAuley Conference Center - Room C
4300 W. Memorial Road
Oklahoma City, OK 73120

This course is recommended first in our series of courses.

Janie Ebmeier

Posted September 6, 2011 at 4:32PM

Categories: Courses

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Mark Your Calendars!

The 2012 annual PRC conference has been scheduled! The conference will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska on Saturday April 21, 2012. If you are a certified clinician and plan on attending this course, please contact Elizabeth McCulley! Hope to see you there!

Bobbie Rappl

Posted August 26, 2011 at 4:35PM

Categories: Postural Restoration Certified (PRC)

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New Course Location

We’re excited to be teaming up with Physiotherapy Associates! James Anderson will present Postural Respiration on October 15-16, 2011 at their location in Herndon, Virginia.

By attending this course you’ll gain an appreciation for the postural influences of rib torsion, asymmetrical oblique strength, inconsistent breathing patterns, habitual use of accessory respiratory musculature and a restricted diaphragm. Clinical assessment and management skills will be covered for treating diagnosis such as “fibromyalgia”, thoracic outlet syndrome and shoulder dysfunction. You’ll discover the value of having your patients and athletes blow up a balloon.

Janie Ebmeier

Posted August 25, 2011 at 4:57PM

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We are privileged to have been invited to present Myokinematic Restoration at the Alaska APTA Fall Conference on October 8-9, 2011. James Anderson will be teaching the course at the Hotel Alyeska in Girdwood, AK. Registration is NOW OPEN!

To read more about James Anderson’s clinical experience, CLICK HERE!

Janie Ebmeier

Posted August 22, 2011 at 8:02AM

Categories: Courses

Dry Bones by Dr. Gerald Murphy

If you are a member of the Journal of Cranio Mandibular Practice you have probably read the July issue titled “Multidisciplinary”. This issue covers how crucial it is to integrate with other disciplines to achieve the most desirable outcome for the patient. In addition, there is a spectacular editorial written by Dr. Gerald Murphy on how necessary he has found the multidisciplinary approach to be in his practice. After reading the editorial Ron Hruska felt compelled to write the author and share a few comments with him:

“Just read the July issue of The Journal of Craniomandibular Practice and wanted to write and tell you how much I enjoyed reading your segment on Dry Bones. I have always tried to integrate disciplinary medicine and dentistry in my practice and always remember that each of our disciplines have limitations. Really feel like you hit a home run on this piece.”

Read the editorial HERE!

Bobbie Rappl

Posted August 22, 2011 at 8:00AM

Categories: Articles

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What a great way to end the week!

We received this from a therapist practicing PRI in Colorado:

“Hi all, I wanted to send along some information that I was amazed by. I have integrated the PRI concepts into my practice over the past year and have been thrilled with the results that I have seen.

I recently treated a 13 year old female that came to me with right sided low back pain and a 17 degree scoliotic curve. After working with her over the course of 5-6 sessions, she returned to her M.D. for a follow up and x-rays, only to discover that her scoliotic curve decreased to 14 degrees. She has overall decreased pain and improved alignment.

Thank you for giving us the tools to help people like this! It makes my job so much more rewarding to be able to effectively treat patients.”

Bobbie Rappl

Posted August 19, 2011 at 8:10AM

Categories: Patients

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Curricular Consideration

A big thanks to Jason Robey for sending me the email below. I can’t think of a better “curricular consideration” for attending our upcoming vision course!

On Saturday I went to the optometrist for my annual eye exam. Below is the conversation that the optometrist and I had while he did the exam:

Opt: What are you doing right?
Me: Exercises
Opt: But you always exercise right?
Me: Yea but these exercises are different

Opt: Well whatever you are doing has improved your astigmatism
Me: Breathing exercises
Opt: I have never seen anyone with an astigmatism as bad as yours get better. I was actually concerned you may have a disease that causes an astigmatism to rapidly get worse. Yours is getting better. I am going to back down the power. Whatever you are doing keep doing it. I am not sure how you are reshaping your own eye.

Then we talked about the website and he is going to look into the PRI Vision website

Jason H. Robey, MS, LAT, ATC, CSCS
Director of Athletic Training Services Appalachian State University

Janie Ebmeier

Posted August 17, 2011 at 8:12AM

Categories: Clinicians

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PRI Illustrations

We received some feedback from the first person that purchased a PRI Illustration:

“I just received the artwork today and it looks amazing!!! I really didn’t expect the print to have such great detail! Thanks for the opportunity to post up some great PRI artwork! As you can see it looks great in my office and is a great conversation starter for Postural Restoration.” - Josh Owen LAT, ATC

To check out all our illustrations or to order, click here!

Bobbie Rappl

Posted August 12, 2011 at 9:30AM

Categories: Products

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Inhibiting the Anterior Neck

While working on the new Non-Manual Techniques CD-ROM we realized that we only have 5 activities that inhibit the anterior neck. It is extremely difficult to shut off an anterior neck in an upright position, therefore, the only position you can place the patient in is supine. Since you can’t expect your patient to live their life in supine, Visual Integration becomes necessary for individuals who are unable to inhibit their anterior neck during upright, dynamic activity. This will be heavily discussed in the upcoming Postural-Visual Integration course! To register for this course, CLICK HERE!

Bobbie Rappl

Posted August 8, 2011 at 8:25AM

Categories: Courses

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The Importance of Integration

Check out this video of Ron Hruska working with a 23 y/o female who is neutral, but still has low back pain secondary to the inability to find AF IR in stance with her abdominals engaged. To learn PRI non-manual integration techniques, such as the one prescribed to this patient, join us at PRI for our annual 4-day Advanced Integration course!

Note: She will be performing the above technique on both sides for her home program.