About Us
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.
The Postural Restoration Institute® (PRI) is a continuing education institute that was established in 2000 to explore and explain the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles. We offer 12 post-graduate level courses, in addition to an annual PRI Interdisciplinary Studies Summit, and we welcome any licensed healthcare or certified fitness professional to attend our courses. Professional credentialing opportunities (PRC, PRT and PRP Japan) are available to qualified professionals.
The human body is not symmetrical. The neurological, circulatory, muscular and visual systems (just to name a few) are not the same on the left side of the body as they are on the right. The Postural Restoration Institute® was established in 2000, to help healthcare and fitness professionals recognize this underlying asymmetry of these systems in our body, and the postural imbalances and patterns associated with dominant, unconscious or conscious overuse, of one side of the body; our right side.
PRI credentialed providers offer a unique approach to physical medicine called Postural Restoration®. This approach addresses underlying biomechanics which can often lead to symptoms of pain and dysfunction. All mechanical influences on the body that restrict movement and contribute to improper joint and muscle position are considered, examined, and assessed. Non-manual and manual techniques are utilized to restore proper alignment of the body while proper respiratory dynamics are considered. Management encompasses prevention and lifetime integration for long-term successful outcomes.
PRI credentialed providers have completed multiple advanced PRI courses, demonstrated a thorough understanding of the primary concepts through completion of an in-depth application process, and successfully participated in both practical and analytical testing onsite in Lincoln, Nebraska.
We do not see patients here at the Postural Restoration Institute, however we can help you Find a Provider near you (see map below)!
This 16-page guide outlines several daily activities which are commonly performed in dominant or patterned positions, and demonstrates alternate ways and instruction to perform them.
Learn how PRI can help with everyday tasks such as breathing, eating, office work, sleeping, speaking, standing, and walking.
PRI has been featured in numerous magazine articles, newsletters and peer reviewed journals.
If you are an athlete, PRI can help you maximize your performance. We have general athletic performance tips as well as tips for specific sports.
Learn more about foundational concepts related to PRI with our collection of free webinars with founder, Ron Hruska.
The PRI podcast features professionals from various Healthcare and Fitness settings, discussing the use of the science of Postural Restoration® and how it is implemented within these fields.
Postural Restoration Certified™ (PRC) professionals are Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Chiropractors and Occupational Therapists who have completed the Postural Restoration Certified™ credentialing program.
Postural Restoration Trained™ (PRT) professionals are Athletic Trainers and Strength & Conditioning Coaches who have completed the Postural Restoration Trained™ credentialing program.
Postural Restoration Provider™ (PRP) professionals are healthcare and movement professionals in Japan, who have completed the Postural Restoration Provider™ credentialing program, offered through PRI Japan. The professional backgrounds of these healthcare and movement professionals are notably different than the individuals going through the available PRC and PRT Credentialing pathways here in the U.S. and the Postural Restoration Provider™ (PRP) Japan Credential is available to various healthcare and fitness professionals in Japan, who are appropriately applying the science of Postural Restoration®.
A Postural Restoration Center™ is a place of business where at least one individual is PRI Credentialed (PRC or PRT) and all other individuals on staff who are eligible for credentialing (which includes PTs, OTs, PTAs, Chiropractors, Athletic Trainers, Athletic Therapists, Strength & Conditioning Coaches with CSCS or SCCC credential, CSPS, and Exercise Physiologists), have completed two or more PRI-sponsored courses.
*To ensure that credentialed providers are keeping up with the progressive science and growth of Postural Restoration®, those listed on this page have taken a course or completed credentialing within the past 5 years. You can view the PRI® courses that each provider has completed by clicking on their individual page.
**If you are unable to find a PRI® credentialed provider in your area, please contact us to see if there is anyone who has taken PRI® courses near you.
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“Results: The results showed a significant difference between the QoL, pain intensity, function, and PROM of left hip adduction in the group with PR exercises with and without core exercises and control (P=0.000). In the PR group with core exercises (P=0.001) and without core exercises (P=0.001), a significant increase was observed in the adduction of the left hip. There was no significant difference between the function (P=0.850), pain (P=0.120), QoL (P=0.328), and PROM (P=0.094) in the intervention groups.
Conclusion: PR exercises with and without core stability are equally effective in reducing pain and improving function, QoL, and hip adduction range of motion in women with left anterior interior chain patterns”
Nov 20
“Results: The results showed a significant difference between the QoL, pain intensity, function, and PROM of left hip adduction in the group with PR exercises with and without core exercises and control (P=0.000). In the PR group with core exercises (P=0.001) and without core exercises (P=0.001), a significant increase was observed in the adduction of the left hip. There was no significant difference between the function (P=0.850), pain (P=0.120), QoL (P=0.328), and PROM (P=0.094) in the intervention groups.
Conclusion: PR exercises with and without core stability are equally effective in reducing pain and improving function, QoL, and hip adduction range of motion in women with left anterior interior chain patterns”
“If the inlet is in ABDuction, the outlet is in ADDuction on the same side”
Pelvis Restoration Livestream
@jenpoulinpt x @jmillermtpt
November 15-16th, 2024
Check out the FREE webinars on the Hruska Abduction & Adduction Lift Tests for more frontal plane mechanics! (Available on our webinars page)
Nov 19
“If the inlet is in ABDuction, the outlet is in ADDuction on the same side”
Pelvis Restoration Livestream
@jenpoulinpt x @jmillermtpt
November 15-16th, 2024
Check out the FREE webinars on the Hruska Abduction & Adduction Lift Tests for more frontal plane mechanics! (Available on our webinars page)
“Cervical Revolution is the conduit to introducing bottom up as well as top down concepts from the cervical spine, cranium, and occlusal system that first require an understanding of the most important neurologic articulation in the body called the atlas and occipital bone. This is where the brainstem is located and is highly sensitive to pressure and movement especially pressure from a head that is forward on a neck that has lost it’s normal 30 degrees of lordosis. If that 30 degrees is lost, then 30 degrees of mid-cervical lateral flexion and 30 degrees of rotation is lost as well.”
- Robert “Skip” George
Nov 14
“Cervical Revolution is the conduit to introducing bottom up as well as top down concepts from the cervical spine, cranium, and occlusal system that first require an understanding of the most important neurologic articulation in the body called the atlas and occipital bone. This is where the brainstem is located and is highly sensitive to pressure and movement especially pressure from a head that is forward on a neck that has lost it’s normal 30 degrees of lordosis. If that 30 degrees is lost, then 30 degrees of mid-cervical lateral flexion and 30 degrees of rotation is lost as well.”
- Robert “Skip” George
Movement requires us to remain IMBALANCED!
If you help individuals move through space you might want to check out the FLM concepts to help them become limitless!
Thanks to everyone who joined us from around the world for this 2 day discussion on Forward Locomotor Movement.
Nov 12
Movement requires us to remain IMBALANCED!
If you help individuals move through space you might want to check out the FLM concepts to help them become limitless!
Thanks to everyone who joined us from around the world for this 2 day discussion on Forward Locomotor Movement.
“It was a world champion kind of weekend in Scottsdale as 3 attendees were part of the LA Dodgers organization! We had a variety of attendees from chiropractors, ATCs, strength & conditioning/personal trainers, and physical therapists. The morning started off learning the intricacies of the terminology (based on osteopathic terminology) when discussing position of the pelvis and femur and how significant this can be before initiating treatment.
I love that this course offers so much lab time to test and discuss the objective measures to confirm the didactic material from the morning. Learning the Hruska Adduction Drop Test was our confirmation bias for the left anterior chain pattern as identified in all attendees this weekend. We ended the day with repositioning techniques and learning about respiration and the value of an exhalation.
The next day, the Hruska Adduction lift test humbled most as we assessed the ability to be able to “shift” successfully in the frontal plane. We discussed treatment at all levels of this lift test to be able to prescribe treatment appropriately. I took a “patient” through the myokinematic hierarchy and it was valuable seeing the progress in the ability for the patient to obtain neutrality and improve on the lift scores within just a few techniques. The power of PRI never ceases to amaze me. Thank you to our gracious host @dprphysicaltherapy and Brennan Hodge for the awesome hospitality.“
-Kasey
Nov 11
“It was a world champion kind of weekend in Scottsdale as 3 attendees were part of the LA Dodgers organization! We had a variety of attendees from chiropractors, ATCs, strength & conditioning/personal trainers, and physical therapists. The morning started off learning the intricacies of the terminology (based on osteopathic terminology) when discussing position of the pelvis and femur and how significant this can be before initiating treatment.
I love that this course offers so much lab time to test and discuss the objective measures to confirm the didactic material from the morning. Learning the Hruska Adduction Drop Test was our confirmation bias for the left anterior chain pattern as identified in all attendees this weekend. We ended the day with repositioning techniques and learning about respiration and the value of an exhalation.
The next day, the Hruska Adduction lift test humbled most as we assessed the ability to be able to “shift” successfully in the frontal plane. We discussed treatment at all levels of this lift test to be able to prescribe treatment appropriately. I took a “patient” through the myokinematic hierarchy and it was valuable seeing the progress in the ability for the patient to obtain neutrality and improve on the lift scores within just a few techniques. The power of PRI never ceases to amaze me. Thank you to our gracious host @dprphysicaltherapy and Brennan Hodge for the awesome hospitality.“
-Kasey
It was great to be back in the Windy City teaching Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @donnapbyrne and Pilates Central for hosting us this past weekend.
It was a weekend filled with new course attendees and others expanding their journey in PRI. The “brain twists” this weekend:
1. The pelvic diaphragm (floor) has a left and right side.
2. Muscle don’t have origins and insertions, but rather attachment sites and can influence the position of bones.
3. The frontal plane importance of our ability to move side to side.
4. The concept of compression and decompression with position and airflow.
5. How the pelvis influences the spine all the way up to the neck and all the way down to the foot and ankle.
The energy and enthusiasm for this science was high and the quest to learn more from these practitioners was astounding.
Thank you for the gift of time and allowing me to teach!
-Lori
Nov 8
It was great to be back in the Windy City teaching Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @donnapbyrne and Pilates Central for hosting us this past weekend.
It was a weekend filled with new course attendees and others expanding their journey in PRI. The “brain twists” this weekend:
1. The pelvic diaphragm (floor) has a left and right side.
2. Muscle don’t have origins and insertions, but rather attachment sites and can influence the position of bones.
3. The frontal plane importance of our ability to move side to side.
4. The concept of compression and decompression with position and airflow.
5. How the pelvis influences the spine all the way up to the neck and all the way down to the foot and ankle.
The energy and enthusiasm for this science was high and the quest to learn more from these practitioners was astounding.
Thank you for the gift of time and allowing me to teach!
-Lori
ADVANCED INTEGRATION 2024 is one month away!
Register by the end of the day tomorrow to receive the early registration rate!
4 Days
7 Presenters
30 Contact Hrs.
December 5-8th
Live or Live-streamed from around the world.
If you`ve completed the Primary Courses but haven`t quite solidified how they should be integrated together to maximize success, it`s time to take a deeper dive!
Can’t wait to see you all for the last course of the year!
#prination
Nov 7
ADVANCED INTEGRATION 2024 is one month away!
Register by the end of the day tomorrow to receive the early registration rate!
4 Days
7 Presenters
30 Contact Hrs.
December 5-8th
Live or Live-streamed from around the world.
If you`ve completed the Primary Courses but haven`t quite solidified how they should be integrated together to maximize success, it`s time to take a deeper dive!
Can’t wait to see you all for the last course of the year!
#prination
Episode 36 with @yoshi.mitsuyama is live! Yoshi has a unique experience, spanning from working with collegiate and professional soccer athletes, singers in Nashville and individuals who are just trying to get out of bed each day!
Whether trying to maintain performance at a high level, or attempting to overcome stressors that limit us from standing, individuals on both sides of the spectrum often get labeled with the same dysautonomia diagnosis and can benefit from similar reprogramming.
Nov 6
Episode 36 with @yoshi.mitsuyama is live! Yoshi has a unique experience, spanning from working with collegiate and professional soccer athletes, singers in Nashville and individuals who are just trying to get out of bed each day!
Whether trying to maintain performance at a high level, or attempting to overcome stressors that limit us from standing, individuals on both sides of the spectrum often get labeled with the same dysautonomia diagnosis and can benefit from similar reprogramming.
“Vision is the product of the interaction of four components, anti-gravity, centering, identification, and the speech-auditory process. This is the first sentence of the introductory section of the course, and was written by AM Skeffington in his 1964 ‘Introduction of Clinical Optometry’ course. The anti-gravity system is responsible for balance and posture. The centering system is defined as an attentional and orienting system for selecting where the body, head and eyes are directed.
Our hemi-environments, and their associated occupancy of our body, require vertical visual vestibular vigilance. How we direct ourselves, place ourselves, and use the space activity around us and the air-flow in us, all depend on our midline and center experiences, as related to our vestibular sense and visual perception.
A course attendee wrote, “I am pouring over the course notes and your attention to detail for this course was so well done!!! I appreciated how you took each journal article and highlighted the importance of what you gained from their insight regarding vision, sensory input, pedal sense, and the ability move forward.”
Another attendee wrote, “I appreciate all the work and research that went into this. The recognition of all of the research considered was important for the optometrist that attended the course with me. I think that was quite valuable and I appreciated the main points of how to recognize the value of ground-up position and input before refraction was stressed . .. “
Our mechanoreception is built around standing and upright movement on two feet, using two upper extremities, and the cortical visual processing associated with this upright proprioceptive control. Therefore, this course outlines how to arrive at binocular alignment at distance, when standing, to reduce misalignment tendencies, overuse of visual vergence, and visual vestibular instability related to depth imperception.
If you want more information on how to clinically involve and incorporate both eyes with both feet, equally, as much as possible, for acceptable vertical behavior, then this course was organized and is being offered for you.”
- Ron Hruska
Oct 31
“Vision is the product of the interaction of four components, anti-gravity, centering, identification, and the speech-auditory process. This is the first sentence of the introductory section of the course, and was written by AM Skeffington in his 1964 ‘Introduction of Clinical Optometry’ course. The anti-gravity system is responsible for balance and posture. The centering system is defined as an attentional and orienting system for selecting where the body, head and eyes are directed.
Our hemi-environments, and their associated occupancy of our body, require vertical visual vestibular vigilance. How we direct ourselves, place ourselves, and use the space activity around us and the air-flow in us, all depend on our midline and center experiences, as related to our vestibular sense and visual perception.
A course attendee wrote, “I am pouring over the course notes and your attention to detail for this course was so well done!!! I appreciated how you took each journal article and highlighted the importance of what you gained from their insight regarding vision, sensory input, pedal sense, and the ability move forward.”
Another attendee wrote, “I appreciate all the work and research that went into this. The recognition of all of the research considered was important for the optometrist that attended the course with me. I think that was quite valuable and I appreciated the main points of how to recognize the value of ground-up position and input before refraction was stressed . .. “
Our mechanoreception is built around standing and upright movement on two feet, using two upper extremities, and the cortical visual processing associated with this upright proprioceptive control. Therefore, this course outlines how to arrive at binocular alignment at distance, when standing, to reduce misalignment tendencies, overuse of visual vergence, and visual vestibular instability related to depth imperception.
If you want more information on how to clinically involve and incorporate both eyes with both feet, equally, as much as possible, for acceptable vertical behavior, then this course was organized and is being offered for you.”
- Ron Hruska
Dynamic respiration review with Dan!
Trunk rotation requires ribcage rotation driven by respiration, which can be facilitated by FULL exhalation utilizing a balloon! 🎈
Oct 30
Dynamic respiration review with Dan!
Trunk rotation requires ribcage rotation driven by respiration, which can be facilitated by FULL exhalation utilizing a balloon! 🎈
@stepsforrecovery a Postural Restoration Certified Center and home for this past weekend’s Postural Restoration course, has offered its patients the Postural Restoration model of care for many years. Several of their clinicians were in attendance to sharpen their PRI skills. In addition, nearly a third of participants were newcomers to the science of human movement. They were treated to the collective wisdom of three PRC-credentialed clinicians, who elevated the course for all: Craig Depperschmidt, PT, Lisa Mangino, PT, and Sangini Rane, PT.
Our patients/clients often are clueless about where our diaphragm is and how it moves and functions and how our rib cages become stiff and patterned. Furthermore, they often function in a state of hyperinflation, with poor neuro-sensory awareness that doesn’t allow them to get out of this state. Our thorax, after all, houses so much of our physiology and, when stiff and patterned, influences both movement and psycho-sensory processing. Want to help your patient/client with more efficient movement? Resolve headaches, shoulder, neck, and back pain and the multitude of extremity “-itis’s”? Hasten recovery from surgical procedures? Reduce anxiety, gut issues, and shortness of breath? Do you strive to elevate your practice through improved understanding of how and why our asymmetrical diaphragm becomes patterned in its position and movement? And how and why this pattern influences, for better or worse, the way we move our bodies, when upright, against gravity? Postural Restoration addresses these challenges, with multiple evidence-based research and real-life patient photos and videos and lots of hands-on lab sessions to guide the attendee through assessment and treatment.
A huge “thank you” goes out to our lab models, who gamely served as patient avatars to allow us to understand how to assess pelvis and thorax position and pathology, and how to treat what we see. Ashley, Lauren, and Katie: I speak for the class when I say we appreciated your wonderful hospitality this weekend. Thank you for inviting us in and providing a comfortable atmosphere!
-Louise Kelley
Oct 29
@stepsforrecovery a Postural Restoration Certified Center and home for this past weekend’s Postural Restoration course, has offered its patients the Postural Restoration model of care for many years. Several of their clinicians were in attendance to sharpen their PRI skills. In addition, nearly a third of participants were newcomers to the science of human movement. They were treated to the collective wisdom of three PRC-credentialed clinicians, who elevated the course for all: Craig Depperschmidt, PT, Lisa Mangino, PT, and Sangini Rane, PT.
Our patients/clients often are clueless about where our diaphragm is and how it moves and functions and how our rib cages become stiff and patterned. Furthermore, they often function in a state of hyperinflation, with poor neuro-sensory awareness that doesn’t allow them to get out of this state. Our thorax, after all, houses so much of our physiology and, when stiff and patterned, influences both movement and psycho-sensory processing. Want to help your patient/client with more efficient movement? Resolve headaches, shoulder, neck, and back pain and the multitude of extremity “-itis’s”? Hasten recovery from surgical procedures? Reduce anxiety, gut issues, and shortness of breath? Do you strive to elevate your practice through improved understanding of how and why our asymmetrical diaphragm becomes patterned in its position and movement? And how and why this pattern influences, for better or worse, the way we move our bodies, when upright, against gravity? Postural Restoration addresses these challenges, with multiple evidence-based research and real-life patient photos and videos and lots of hands-on lab sessions to guide the attendee through assessment and treatment.
A huge “thank you” goes out to our lab models, who gamely served as patient avatars to allow us to understand how to assess pelvis and thorax position and pathology, and how to treat what we see. Ashley, Lauren, and Katie: I speak for the class when I say we appreciated your wonderful hospitality this weekend. Thank you for inviting us in and providing a comfortable atmosphere!
-Louise Kelley
It was amazing to be back in Seattle to teach Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @alpineptseattle for hosting. Eli, Jeremiah, and Murph your energy and passion for PRI is palpable.
The course participants were fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the questions and intrigue into the science of PRI. The take home message of having TWO sides of a pelvis-left and the right was a good reminder. In addition, the left and right hemi-pelvis need to be in a different position and alternate to gain optimal function was a huge take home message.
This video of Reggie Bush ⬅️(#reposted via @nfloncbs ) that @jmillermtpt shared with me over lunch to reinforce this need for tri-planar alternation of the pelvis was fabulous!
Thank you Jason for assisting and training with me in Seattle. Thank you to the course participants for your time and openness for me to "twist your brain" as we learn together how amazing the human body is.
Oct 23
It was amazing to be back in Seattle to teach Pelvis Restoration. Thank you @alpineptseattle for hosting. Eli, Jeremiah, and Murph your energy and passion for PRI is palpable.
The course participants were fabulous. I thoroughly enjoyed the questions and intrigue into the science of PRI. The take home message of having TWO sides of a pelvis-left and the right was a good reminder. In addition, the left and right hemi-pelvis need to be in a different position and alternate to gain optimal function was a huge take home message.
This video of Reggie Bush ⬅️(#reposted via @nfloncbs ) that @jmillermtpt shared with me over lunch to reinforce this need for tri-planar alternation of the pelvis was fabulous!
Thank you Jason for assisting and training with me in Seattle. Thank you to the course participants for your time and openness for me to "twist your brain" as we learn together how amazing the human body is.
In Missoula, Montana, a river runs through it, flowing with Postural Restoration science and application provided at Revo Training Center in the heart of town. Revo is located in a former Baptist church with stained glass windows and high ceilings inside an older brick building that makes presenting courses at this location, well, heavenly! The space has inspiring acoustics and a modern day functional gym setting that is perfect for teaching and learning.
Postural Respiration was the primary course this past weekend presented to a diverse group of fitness personnel, PT’s, a DC, an occupational therapist, and a massage therapist from Canada. For most of the attendees this was their first exposure to Postural Respiration. With so many fitness professional attendees the application to performance was emphasized as well as clinical application to the healthcare professionals and their practices.
Accessory muscle overuse is one of the main topics regarding patho-mechanical respiration especially as it applies to forward head posture and Superior T-4 Syndrome. A “nod” to Cervical Revolution was provided since respiration, in large part, determines balanced rotation and neutrality of the neck and management of the airway.
Thank you so much to the Revo crew including Callie, Grant, Kirsten, and Mariah for providing such a great venue. Huge thanks to my friend, fellow faculty member and colleague Jason Miller, DPT, PRC for his knowledge and experience. And, thank you to all attendees from different disciplines for travelling and sharing this PRI experience.
Oct 18
In Missoula, Montana, a river runs through it, flowing with Postural Restoration science and application provided at Revo Training Center in the heart of town. Revo is located in a former Baptist church with stained glass windows and high ceilings inside an older brick building that makes presenting courses at this location, well, heavenly! The space has inspiring acoustics and a modern day functional gym setting that is perfect for teaching and learning.
Postural Respiration was the primary course this past weekend presented to a diverse group of fitness personnel, PT’s, a DC, an occupational therapist, and a massage therapist from Canada. For most of the attendees this was their first exposure to Postural Respiration. With so many fitness professional attendees the application to performance was emphasized as well as clinical application to the healthcare professionals and their practices.
Accessory muscle overuse is one of the main topics regarding patho-mechanical respiration especially as it applies to forward head posture and Superior T-4 Syndrome. A “nod” to Cervical Revolution was provided since respiration, in large part, determines balanced rotation and neutrality of the neck and management of the airway.
Thank you so much to the Revo crew including Callie, Grant, Kirsten, and Mariah for providing such a great venue. Huge thanks to my friend, fellow faculty member and colleague Jason Miller, DPT, PRC for his knowledge and experience. And, thank you to all attendees from different disciplines for travelling and sharing this PRI experience.
So you suspect your right ilium is tipped forward……..in that case it is likely that so is your left.
(Bilateral AIC)
(PEC)
Or maybe you are relying on one of the two scenarios Craig mentions here.
What do the TESTS tell you? Did you even objectively test it?
Without understanding the science behind why someone can or cannot adduct a femur by clearing the acetabular rim via a neutral pelvis, nothing you perceive or palpate is very powerful and you may actually be further reinforcing their pattern!
Oct 16
So you suspect your right ilium is tipped forward……..in that case it is likely that so is your left.
(Bilateral AIC)
(PEC)
Or maybe you are relying on one of the two scenarios Craig mentions here.
What do the TESTS tell you? Did you even objectively test it?
Without understanding the science behind why someone can or cannot adduct a femur by clearing the acetabular rim via a neutral pelvis, nothing you perceive or palpate is very powerful and you may actually be further reinforcing their pattern!
Pressure & Perception,
Receptivity & Rib Rotation,
Tongue Ties & Tissue,
Strains & Strabismus,
Neurology & Neutrality,
Balance & Breath.
Thanks to the @gestalteducation podcast for coming to Lincoln for such a great discussion!
“Balancing Act: Unraveling Human Asymmetry with Ron Hruska” is out now!
#repost @brett.winchester
We had an amazing time sitting down with Ron Hruska, founder of the @posturalrestoration
We talked all things asymmetry and learned more about PRI and its origins!
Check it out on Spotify or YouTube
💪
Oct 15
Pressure & Perception,
Receptivity & Rib Rotation,
Tongue Ties & Tissue,
Strains & Strabismus,
Neurology & Neutrality,
Balance & Breath.
Thanks to the @gestalteducation podcast for coming to Lincoln for such a great discussion!
“Balancing Act: Unraveling Human Asymmetry with Ron Hruska” is out now!
#repost @brett.winchester
We had an amazing time sitting down with Ron Hruska, founder of the @posturalrestoration
We talked all things asymmetry and learned more about PRI and its origins!
Check it out on Spotify or YouTube
💪
“I had the distinct pleasure of spending the weekend in Brunswick, Maine at Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy teaching Myokinematic Restoration. Much like the fall colors showing themselves on the changing leaves, we endeavored to change our perspective on the body’s musculoskeletal system. Developing an appreciation of inherent human asymmetrical patterns and their influence on achieving a “good posture” that allows the body to oscillate between two sides passing through the intersection of “neutral”.
The group did a great job engaging in discussions and asking questions throughout the weekend. Margo Goodman, DO, provided an insightful observation that her assessments of pelvic position may be skewed by the asymmetric body interfacing with the symmetric table. I had a great discussion with Kelsey Bisson, CSCS, and Beth Carlton, MS, NASM-CES, about how to integrate PRI activities in the strength and conditioning environment and the challenges faced in application. Emily Schmitt, DPT, asked great questions around the application of myokin material related to her work in pelvic health.
On Sunday the group joined me in celebrating the NY Yankees first playoff win of the season, a welcome surprise being this far north in Red Sox country. The day was spent dissecting the Hruska Adduction Lift Test, nailing down the technique, scoring, and interpretation of the results, then using those test results to guide our activity selection. There were a few “holy cow!” exclamations (no doubt a nod to the historic Yankee great and announcer Phil Rizzuto) as we worked through activities and had the opportunity to experience and practice the non-manual techniques.”
- @jmillermtpt
Oct 14
“I had the distinct pleasure of spending the weekend in Brunswick, Maine at Coastal Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Physical Therapy teaching Myokinematic Restoration. Much like the fall colors showing themselves on the changing leaves, we endeavored to change our perspective on the body’s musculoskeletal system. Developing an appreciation of inherent human asymmetrical patterns and their influence on achieving a “good posture” that allows the body to oscillate between two sides passing through the intersection of “neutral”.
The group did a great job engaging in discussions and asking questions throughout the weekend. Margo Goodman, DO, provided an insightful observation that her assessments of pelvic position may be skewed by the asymmetric body interfacing with the symmetric table. I had a great discussion with Kelsey Bisson, CSCS, and Beth Carlton, MS, NASM-CES, about how to integrate PRI activities in the strength and conditioning environment and the challenges faced in application. Emily Schmitt, DPT, asked great questions around the application of myokin material related to her work in pelvic health.
On Sunday the group joined me in celebrating the NY Yankees first playoff win of the season, a welcome surprise being this far north in Red Sox country. The day was spent dissecting the Hruska Adduction Lift Test, nailing down the technique, scoring, and interpretation of the results, then using those test results to guide our activity selection. There were a few “holy cow!” exclamations (no doubt a nod to the historic Yankee great and announcer Phil Rizzuto) as we worked through activities and had the opportunity to experience and practice the non-manual techniques.”
- @jmillermtpt
The angles of perception…….
Where is your midline?
How is it sensed?
What is perceived?
Will it make you fall?
Day 2 of Visual Vestibular Refinement introduced testing of the utricle and balance center via (PRI) Subjective Visual Vertical Tests (SVVT) and manipulation of our sense of angulation from our floor(s)!
Oct 10
The angles of perception…….
Where is your midline?
How is it sensed?
What is perceived?
Will it make you fall?
Day 2 of Visual Vestibular Refinement introduced testing of the utricle and balance center via (PRI) Subjective Visual Vertical Tests (SVVT) and manipulation of our sense of angulation from our floor(s)!
I recently had the opportunity to teach Cranial Resolution in Virginia Beach. Only one person in attendance had previously taken the course, and that person was @juliea2zblandin Julie graciously offered incredible insight and experience regarding the material and techniques, especially during the final four hours of the course, which were exclusively devoted to clinical application. I cannot thank Julie enough for both hosting the course and for all that she brought to it.
The other attendees, who were all Cranial newbies, seemed to grasp the concepts remarkably well. It was gratifying to witness more than a few ah – hah moments . . . and to field questions that clearly illustrated that people were starting to understand the difference between ANS tension and CNS tone, what neutrality really means, why we need to insure (and help guide) clients to be able to functionally cycle sensory afferentation, and grasp the reasoning behind the unique thoracic cranial techniques for which this course is known. Since I am first and foremost a clinician, I loved making this brilliant, yet sometimes seemingly esoteric material, more user friendly.
To me this course serves as a bridge, a bridge that connects neuro and physiological adaptations to predictable orthopedic compensatory patterning. It was therefore very appropriate to be able to look out from where I was staying on the shore just north of Virginia Beach and see the 17.6-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. It was an awesome sight, especially at night when it was all lit up . . . just like those bridges in our brains.
-Jennifer Smart
Oct 9
I recently had the opportunity to teach Cranial Resolution in Virginia Beach. Only one person in attendance had previously taken the course, and that person was @juliea2zblandin Julie graciously offered incredible insight and experience regarding the material and techniques, especially during the final four hours of the course, which were exclusively devoted to clinical application. I cannot thank Julie enough for both hosting the course and for all that she brought to it.
The other attendees, who were all Cranial newbies, seemed to grasp the concepts remarkably well. It was gratifying to witness more than a few ah – hah moments . . . and to field questions that clearly illustrated that people were starting to understand the difference between ANS tension and CNS tone, what neutrality really means, why we need to insure (and help guide) clients to be able to functionally cycle sensory afferentation, and grasp the reasoning behind the unique thoracic cranial techniques for which this course is known. Since I am first and foremost a clinician, I loved making this brilliant, yet sometimes seemingly esoteric material, more user friendly.
To me this course serves as a bridge, a bridge that connects neuro and physiological adaptations to predictable orthopedic compensatory patterning. It was therefore very appropriate to be able to look out from where I was staying on the shore just north of Virginia Beach and see the 17.6-mile Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. It was an awesome sight, especially at night when it was all lit up . . . just like those bridges in our brains.
-Jennifer Smart
Visual Vestibular Refinement Day One!
Sense of our vertical selves requires podal sense of the ground beneath us and the visual spatial world around us.
Oct 7
Visual Vestibular Refinement Day One!
Sense of our vertical selves requires podal sense of the ground beneath us and the visual spatial world around us.
Pelvis Restoration meets Jupiter, Florida! It was a great class! Thank you David and @myarisefl Center for Athletic Development for hosting us all this past weekend!
Course attendees had many "aha moments” including,
“Treating PEC patterns with reciprocal respiratory activity first and then addressing the underlying L AIC”
“Learning to treat TWO pelvic diaphragms (floors)”
“Using the power of respiration to regulate internal pressure”
Thanks to everyone who joined and traversed travel and storm preparations to discuss the Pelvis!
Oct 2
Pelvis Restoration meets Jupiter, Florida! It was a great class! Thank you David and @myarisefl Center for Athletic Development for hosting us all this past weekend!
Course attendees had many "aha moments” including,
“Treating PEC patterns with reciprocal respiratory activity first and then addressing the underlying L AIC”
“Learning to treat TWO pelvic diaphragms (floors)”
“Using the power of respiration to regulate internal pressure”
Thanks to everyone who joined and traversed travel and storm preparations to discuss the Pelvis!
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