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Welcome to the Postural Restoration Institute™!

We invite you to explore our revolutionary approach to physical medicine. Within these pages you will find a wide scope of information about our science, course offerings, and educational resources designed for healthcare professionals, coaches and athletes of all ages and abilities. We are dedicated to education, research and the ongoing search for improved pathways of physical medicine. Thank you for visiting and please contact us if we can assist you in any way.

      

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PRC Updates - July 2009

It’s that time again…we have posted PRC updates from this last quarter!  If you are a PRC Therapist, check out the members only area to view the most up-to-date material!


Latest Interview - Oliver Hall, PT, PRC

Check out our new Featured Interview!  This month we are getting to know Oliver Hall, PT, PRC!  Oliver owns his own practice, Inspire Physical Therapy, located in Essex, Vermont.  To read all about Oliver, click here!


Right TMCC Facial Observations

Right TMCC Facial Observations

Take a look at the most recent picture we have taken of a classic Right TMCC pattern!  Do you see what we see?

  • Fullness and bulging of the right lateral face (zygoma region) secondary to increase of frontozygomatic angle.
  • Right temporal indentation compared to the left (right temporal internal rotation, left temporal external rotation)
  • Forward, opened, wider, larger right orbit
  • More visible left flared ear
  • Larger and more opened right nostril (especially seen with right torsion)
  • Increased distance between side of face and lateral ocular angle on the right side
  • Elevated right eyebrow

If you are interested to learn more about this, register for a Cervical Cranio Mandibular Restoration course here!


Interdisciplinary Integration 2010

We have set the date for the Interdisciplinary Integration course in 2010!  The course will be held Wednesday, April 14 - Saturday, April 17!  All four days will be full of new and exciting information related to feet, dentistry, vision and our new topic….REST!  The entire 4th day will be covering rest and sleep integration as it relates to PRI!  Plan ahead for this course…you don’t want to miss it!  You can register for all four days or each individual day by clicking here!


Great Question!

Great Question!

We recently received this question:
Why are so many of the PRI exercises isometric, rather than using the more typical type of PT exercise that uses movement against resistance?

Here is our response:
PRI non-manual techniques are organized by muscle, position and suggested sequence of progressive application.  Therefore, each technique precedes a technique that requires increased neuromotor integration, increased inhibitory activity from compensatory patterned muscle, and an increase in multilevel tri-planar positional organization.  In order to carry this type of function out, the patient needs to “find” and “feel” isometrically a specific muscle in a specific position to learn a behavioral pattern or strategy with this isolated muscle engaging into an integrated “family” of muscle, without dropping off because of position or sequence of movement events.  Many of the more integrated techniques do incorporate “movement against resistance” while the early techniques in each position on initiation, are isolated to inhibit undesirable compensatory activity and identified by the patient for later integration neuromuscular non-compensatory function.  Without awareness of this identified and isometric trained muscle, higher levels of neuromotor demands could reduce the needed concomitant activity of this muscle. 


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Curricular Considerations

      
Cervical-Cranio-Mandibular Restoration
July 25-26, 2009
Syracuse, NY
Mary Lou Corcoran will be hosting our only course scheduled for the month of July. Please be reminded… More
Myokinematic Restoration
August 1-2, 2009
Duluth, MN
We’ve collaborated with the College of St. Scholastica and Assistant Professor, Karen Swanson to… More
Cervical-Cranio-Mandibular Restoration
August 8-9, 2009
Woodbury, MN (FULL COURSE-call to be placed on our cancellation list)
This course is currently FULL!  Please contact us to be placed on our cancellation list! More
Impingement & Instability
August 22-23, 2009
Lincoln, NE
Come visit us right here at PRI! For those who are able to fly into the Lincoln airport (LNK) and stay… More
      

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Featured Interview

      

Oliver Hall, PT, PRC

Oliver Hall, PT, PRC

Oliver earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical therapy at the University of Vermont, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude. After graduation, he went to work at a physical therapy clinic located at the renowned Green Mountain Valley School ski academy…

      

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