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The Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) was established in 2000 to explore and explain the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles.
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We had such a great time at Myokinematic Restoration in Lincoln last week. Two words that pop out when I...
Finish Line Physical Therapy, the go-to rehab and recovery clinic for runners in the NYC area, played host to last...
I don’t know if anyone could have more fun teaching PRI than I did last weekend. I am finishing up...
Spooner Physical Therapy in Chandler is a familiar hosting location that is perfect for presenting PRI courses with a physical...
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Another wonderful class attending Pelvis Restoration. They appreciated the details and analytical design of the course to understand the pelvic...
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As the snow season comes to a close remember that trunk rotation is required by many more activities than just skiing down the slopes.
Walking, running, sitting, standing and even sleeping all require us to rotate or disassociate our upper half (thorax) from our lower half (pelvis).
In essence we rely on our ability, or lack there of, to rotate all day, everyday.
Are you doing it efficiently?
Can’t wait to dive deeper this Friday during our Forward Locomotor livestream!
Apr 1
As the snow season comes to a close remember that trunk rotation is required by many more activities than just skiing down the slopes.
Walking, running, sitting, standing and even sleeping all require us to rotate or disassociate our upper half (thorax) from our lower half (pelvis).
In essence we rely on our ability, or lack there of, to rotate all day, everyday.
Are you doing it efficiently?
Can’t wait to dive deeper this Friday during our Forward Locomotor livestream!
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Two days discussing Postural Restoration Developmental Sensory Motor Sequences with @lisamanginopt.ndt.prc
Thanks to everyone who explored Human Evolution alongside us as it relates to the principles of sensory motor growth and development!
Mar 31
Two days discussing Postural Restoration Developmental Sensory Motor Sequences with @lisamanginopt.ndt.prc
Thanks to everyone who explored Human Evolution alongside us as it relates to the principles of sensory motor growth and development!
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Featured Speaker: Danielle Phillips, PT, DPT, PRC
“Beyond the Pattern: Enhancing Patient-Provider Relationships Through
Emotional Intelligence”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
Mar 27
Featured Speaker: Danielle Phillips, PT, DPT, PRC
“Beyond the Pattern: Enhancing Patient-Provider Relationships Through
Emotional Intelligence”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
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Cranial Resolution with the one and only Jennifer Smart!
Thanks to everyone who joined us in Lincoln and from around the world last weekend!
Looking forward to complimenting so much of what was discussed in this course with Lisa Mangino and the developmental sequencing and patterning discussed in Human Evolution this Friday!
Mar 24
Cranial Resolution with the one and only Jennifer Smart!
Thanks to everyone who joined us in Lincoln and from around the world last weekend!
Looking forward to complimenting so much of what was discussed in this course with Lisa Mangino and the developmental sequencing and patterning discussed in Human Evolution this Friday!
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Featured Speaker: Heather Engelbert, PhD, MPT, PRC, CYT
“Seeking Perfect in an Imperfect World:
The Art of Successful Outcomes”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
Mar 21
Featured Speaker: Heather Engelbert, PhD, MPT, PRC, CYT
“Seeking Perfect in an Imperfect World:
The Art of Successful Outcomes”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
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Featured Speakers: Torin Berge, MPT, PRC & Yoshi Mitsuyama, MS, ATC/L, PRT
“Management of Concussion and Concurrent Conditions Associated with Dysautonomia in a Professional Soccer Player: A Case Led Discussion”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in Bio! 🔗
Mar 18
Featured Speakers: Torin Berge, MPT, PRC & Yoshi Mitsuyama, MS, ATC/L, PRT
“Management of Concussion and Concurrent Conditions Associated with Dysautonomia in a Professional Soccer Player: A Case Led Discussion”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in Bio! 🔗
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Featured Speaker: Liz Williams, LCSW, CHt
“Emotional Stories of the Patterned Body”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year`s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in Bio! 🔗
Mar 13
Featured Speaker: Liz Williams, LCSW, CHt
“Emotional Stories of the Patterned Body”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year`s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in Bio! 🔗
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Finish Line Physical Therapy, the go-to rehab and recovery clinic for runners in the NYC area, played host to last weekend’s Postural Respiration course.
Attendees across multiple disciplines (PT, chiropractic, strength and conditioning, coaching), working with a wide range of patient populations (runners, cyclists, pediatrics, pelvic health, post-partum, musicians, general orthopedics), learned about the wonder and magic of our thoracic diaphragm. We even had a rowing coach in attendance, eager to nudge the rowing world away from its outdated warm-up and cross training techniques and, instead, towards a paradigm that is far more effective in preventing and treating injury.
Over the course of two days, we explored numerous concepts related to how an individual manages their upright existence. We presented examples of ineffective diaphragm position (i.e. lacking a full zone of apposition), stemming from poor opposition from IO/TA activity, including excessive belly expansion or neck muscle activity. These individuals can no longer alternate and reciprocate their center of mass. They move themselves with overactive chains of muscles whose activity our brain is unable to sufficiently suppress. The result? Hyperinflation, sympathetic nervous system dominance, and inefficient forward locomotion and all other dynamic activity.
We had ample lab time for assessment of tests and implementation of program design to address issues associated with patterned respiratory neuromechanics for optimal kinetic outcomes. I know I speak for all of the attendees when I say fellow PRC Josh Speckman’s assistance throughout the weekend was SO helpful and much-appreciated!
-Louise Kelley
Mar 12
Finish Line Physical Therapy, the go-to rehab and recovery clinic for runners in the NYC area, played host to last weekend’s Postural Respiration course.
Attendees across multiple disciplines (PT, chiropractic, strength and conditioning, coaching), working with a wide range of patient populations (runners, cyclists, pediatrics, pelvic health, post-partum, musicians, general orthopedics), learned about the wonder and magic of our thoracic diaphragm. We even had a rowing coach in attendance, eager to nudge the rowing world away from its outdated warm-up and cross training techniques and, instead, towards a paradigm that is far more effective in preventing and treating injury.
Over the course of two days, we explored numerous concepts related to how an individual manages their upright existence. We presented examples of ineffective diaphragm position (i.e. lacking a full zone of apposition), stemming from poor opposition from IO/TA activity, including excessive belly expansion or neck muscle activity. These individuals can no longer alternate and reciprocate their center of mass. They move themselves with overactive chains of muscles whose activity our brain is unable to sufficiently suppress. The result? Hyperinflation, sympathetic nervous system dominance, and inefficient forward locomotion and all other dynamic activity.
We had ample lab time for assessment of tests and implementation of program design to address issues associated with patterned respiratory neuromechanics for optimal kinetic outcomes. I know I speak for all of the attendees when I say fellow PRC Josh Speckman’s assistance throughout the weekend was SO helpful and much-appreciated!
-Louise Kelley
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Featured Speaker: Locatelli Rao, PT, DPT, OCS, PRC
“Restoring Taylor Wobble to Restore Systematic Resonance”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
Mar 11
Featured Speaker: Locatelli Rao, PT, DPT, OCS, PRC
“Restoring Taylor Wobble to Restore Systematic Resonance”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
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Had a fantastic weekend of Myokinematic Restoration with Craig and everyone in attendance online and in person!
Such an awesome group of various health and fitness providers dissecting human patterning and the asymmetrical ways we address it.
Your asymmetry is a gift, until it’s not. Enter, repositioning activities outlined in this course and others.
Returning to a “neutral” parasympathetic state however, does not retrain our cortical desire to leave it.
The real magic happens everyday your clients are reprogramming and repositioning themselves, unassisted, to alternate through life unrestricted.
Their lift scores will reflect it!
Mar 10
Had a fantastic weekend of Myokinematic Restoration with Craig and everyone in attendance online and in person!
Such an awesome group of various health and fitness providers dissecting human patterning and the asymmetrical ways we address it.
Your asymmetry is a gift, until it’s not. Enter, repositioning activities outlined in this course and others.
Returning to a “neutral” parasympathetic state however, does not retrain our cortical desire to leave it.
The real magic happens everyday your clients are reprogramming and repositioning themselves, unassisted, to alternate through life unrestricted.
Their lift scores will reflect it!
...
Featured Speaker: Neal Hallinan, CSCS,LMT,PRT
“The Power of the Downbeat: Inhibiting Autonomic Nervous System Generated Tension Through Walking to 4/4 Timed
Music”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year`s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
Mar 6
Featured Speaker: Neal Hallinan, CSCS,LMT,PRT
“The Power of the Downbeat: Inhibiting Autonomic Nervous System Generated Tension Through Walking to 4/4 Timed
Music”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year`s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
...
Spooner Physical Therapy in Chandler is a familiar hosting location that is perfect for presenting PRI courses with a physical therapy staff always pushing for more knowledge and this weekend was no exception. This diverse group of practitioners from physical therapy, chiropractic, occupational therapy and even Feldenkrais Method attended Postural Respiration with "spot on" questions and observations every step of the way during the weekend.
The topics of anatomical asymmetries, delivery of airflow sense, and the fact of lateralization to one side of the body driven by dominate polyarticular chains of muscle directed by "functional cortical dominance" was completely new to many. The form and function of the thorax driven by delivery of air into the chest wall as it related to center of mass to one side of the body is always a critical point as well as remembering that it is a neurologically driven system along with anatomical asymmetries and asymmetrical air flow that affect movement and function of the entire physiological system.
Thank you to all of the students for attending this weekend and we hope to see you further down the road on your PRI journey of exploring and discovery!
@robertskipgeorge
Mar 5
Spooner Physical Therapy in Chandler is a familiar hosting location that is perfect for presenting PRI courses with a physical therapy staff always pushing for more knowledge and this weekend was no exception. This diverse group of practitioners from physical therapy, chiropractic, occupational therapy and even Feldenkrais Method attended Postural Respiration with "spot on" questions and observations every step of the way during the weekend.
The topics of anatomical asymmetries, delivery of airflow sense, and the fact of lateralization to one side of the body driven by dominate polyarticular chains of muscle directed by "functional cortical dominance" was completely new to many. The form and function of the thorax driven by delivery of air into the chest wall as it related to center of mass to one side of the body is always a critical point as well as remembering that it is a neurologically driven system along with anatomical asymmetries and asymmetrical air flow that affect movement and function of the entire physiological system.
Thank you to all of the students for attending this weekend and we hope to see you further down the road on your PRI journey of exploring and discovery!
@robertskipgeorge
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Featured Speaker: Frank Mallon, PT, DPT, PRC
“Building an Integrative Team in Your Own Backyard: A Personal Journey of Developing Multidisciplinary Care”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
Mar 4
Featured Speaker: Frank Mallon, PT, DPT, PRC
“Building an Integrative Team in Your Own Backyard: A Personal Journey of Developing Multidisciplinary Care”
Join us on April 24-25th for this year’s PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit!
Link in bio! 🔗
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Episode 37: Betsy Baker-Bold, PT, CMPT, PRC, CMTPT/DN
@boldperformancept
@betsy_bold
Through her lifestyle and health coaching, sensory integration, and journey alongside Postural Restoration as it has evolved, Betsy`s perspective is one we can all learn from.
She not only helps those she works with, but has lived these concepts and gone through her own journey finding a renewed sense of self within the world around her.
Providing us all with tremendous insight into incorporating PRI concepts in our lives and through a unique passion and strong history alongside those who incorporate it on skis!
Feb 28
Episode 37: Betsy Baker-Bold, PT, CMPT, PRC, CMTPT/DN
@boldperformancept
@betsy_bold
Through her lifestyle and health coaching, sensory integration, and journey alongside Postural Restoration as it has evolved, Betsy`s perspective is one we can all learn from.
She not only helps those she works with, but has lived these concepts and gone through her own journey finding a renewed sense of self within the world around her.
Providing us all with tremendous insight into incorporating PRI concepts in our lives and through a unique passion and strong history alongside those who incorporate it on skis!
...
Another wonderful class attending Pelvis Restoration last weekend in Atlanta! They appreciated the details and analytical design of the course to understand the pelvic inlet and outlet to assist with forward movement and function. They had amazing questions and enthusiasm for learning. This enhanced how the PRI tests could assist them with clinical outcomes. This group gave me energy! Thank you!
Thank you Tassie Cantrell for assisting me this weekend. Your expertise and experience is a gift.
To Karen and the rest of the staff at One on One Physical Therapy—thank you for hosting and for your interest in the science of PRI. You all rock!
– Lori Thomsen
Feb 26
Another wonderful class attending Pelvis Restoration last weekend in Atlanta! They appreciated the details and analytical design of the course to understand the pelvic inlet and outlet to assist with forward movement and function. They had amazing questions and enthusiasm for learning. This enhanced how the PRI tests could assist them with clinical outcomes. This group gave me energy! Thank you!
Thank you Tassie Cantrell for assisting me this weekend. Your expertise and experience is a gift.
To Karen and the rest of the staff at One on One Physical Therapy—thank you for hosting and for your interest in the science of PRI. You all rock!
– Lori Thomsen
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“Situs Inversus: Brain versus Body?”
Presented by Dan Houglum and Donna Parise Byrne on Day 2 of this year’s Interdisciplinary Studies Summit.
Join us on April 24-25th for this and many other topics presented by 13 speakers over 2 days!
Feb 25
“Situs Inversus: Brain versus Body?”
Presented by Dan Houglum and Donna Parise Byrne on Day 2 of this year’s Interdisciplinary Studies Summit.
Join us on April 24-25th for this and many other topics presented by 13 speakers over 2 days!
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Thanks to @newyork_funcphysio for hosting “Visual Vestibular Refinement” in Midtown!
Ron and Torin had a great weekend with #prination in New York City! Thanks to the movement providers and Optometrists who joined to expand their views on upright integration of our visual vestibular system in space!
Thanks for the clips! @aleenakanner 📸
Feb 24
Thanks to @newyork_funcphysio for hosting “Visual Vestibular Refinement” in Midtown!
Ron and Torin had a great weekend with #prination in New York City! Thanks to the movement providers and Optometrists who joined to expand their views on upright integration of our visual vestibular system in space!
Thanks for the clips! @aleenakanner 📸
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Thanks to @drmariasokolina for inviting us on! Full interview available on YouTube @mariasokolina
#repost
“Mouth breathing = anxiety? Let’s find out! 🤔
I am thrilled to welcome Ron Hruska, founder of the Postural Restoration Institute, for an exclusive interview 🎤
🗓️ OUT NOW
📍 Comment to get the links 🔗
Special thanks to @aleenakanner and @bradgilden “
Feb 20
Thanks to @drmariasokolina for inviting us on! Full interview available on YouTube @mariasokolina
#repost
“Mouth breathing = anxiety? Let’s find out! 🤔
I am thrilled to welcome Ron Hruska, founder of the Postural Restoration Institute, for an exclusive interview 🎤
🗓️ OUT NOW
📍 Comment to get the links 🔗
Special thanks to @aleenakanner and @bradgilden “
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Attendees gathered with curious minds to learn about the human species’ propensity for patterned, inefficient respiration that directly leads to patterned, inefficient movement for our recent Postural Respiration rendition. PRI experience among attendees ran the gamut, from in-person attendee Jodi Reerink, PT, PRC, who has been around since PRI’s inception, to Drake Krogh, PTA, who was in-person for his very first continuing education course out of school.
Attendees gained newfound respect for the most important, and arguably least-understood, skeletal muscle in the body: the thoracic diaphragm, with its left-side/right-side differences in form and function. The diaphragm partners with other key muscles to direct airflow in and out of the body. This alternating, cyclical compression-decompression is sensed, not only within the lung tissue and rib cage, but also within our extremities and its corresponding joints and muscles. This sense informs the brain about position so that the brain, in turn, can direct the neuro-muscular system to preserve upright orientation.
When we lose hemi-diaphragm form and function, our movements become hijacked by overactive chains of muscles – namely, the right brachial chain, left anterior interior chain, and bilateral posterior exterior chains. As these chains exert their over-influence on movement, we become vulnerable to many of the syndromes that we treat: shortness of breath, headaches, thoracic inlet/outlet, and chronic overuse injuries. Our PRI tests and observations reflect these chains’ overactivity. Our PRI techniques re-establish the hemi-diaphragms’ form and function, the key to subduing these chains. If you aren’t incorporating airflow assessment and treatment into your patients’-clients’ programs, then you are depriving them of the key piece to rehab and recovery.
I am grateful for Katie Hedlund, Hannah Horne, Dale Jensen, and Megan Kirwan, for their willingness to act as patient models for lab demonstrations of assessments and techniques. Thank you to all who asked questions, allowing deeper discussion of concepts. I hope to see many of you again at future courses!
-Louise Kelley
Feb 18
Attendees gathered with curious minds to learn about the human species’ propensity for patterned, inefficient respiration that directly leads to patterned, inefficient movement for our recent Postural Respiration rendition. PRI experience among attendees ran the gamut, from in-person attendee Jodi Reerink, PT, PRC, who has been around since PRI’s inception, to Drake Krogh, PTA, who was in-person for his very first continuing education course out of school.
Attendees gained newfound respect for the most important, and arguably least-understood, skeletal muscle in the body: the thoracic diaphragm, with its left-side/right-side differences in form and function. The diaphragm partners with other key muscles to direct airflow in and out of the body. This alternating, cyclical compression-decompression is sensed, not only within the lung tissue and rib cage, but also within our extremities and its corresponding joints and muscles. This sense informs the brain about position so that the brain, in turn, can direct the neuro-muscular system to preserve upright orientation.
When we lose hemi-diaphragm form and function, our movements become hijacked by overactive chains of muscles – namely, the right brachial chain, left anterior interior chain, and bilateral posterior exterior chains. As these chains exert their over-influence on movement, we become vulnerable to many of the syndromes that we treat: shortness of breath, headaches, thoracic inlet/outlet, and chronic overuse injuries. Our PRI tests and observations reflect these chains’ overactivity. Our PRI techniques re-establish the hemi-diaphragms’ form and function, the key to subduing these chains. If you aren’t incorporating airflow assessment and treatment into your patients’-clients’ programs, then you are depriving them of the key piece to rehab and recovery.
I am grateful for Katie Hedlund, Hannah Horne, Dale Jensen, and Megan Kirwan, for their willingness to act as patient models for lab demonstrations of assessments and techniques. Thank you to all who asked questions, allowing deeper discussion of concepts. I hope to see many of you again at future courses!
-Louise Kelley
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