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!

Posted July 2, 2009 at 6:00am by Bobbie Ninneman.
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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!

Posted July 1, 2009 at 6:00am by Bobbie Ninneman.
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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!

Posted June 29, 2009 at 9:37am by Bobbie Ninneman.
Categories: Science

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!

Posted June 24, 2009 at 6:00am by Bobbie Ninneman.
Categories: Courses

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. 

Posted June 23, 2009 at 6:00am by Bobbie Ninneman.
Categories: Techniques