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Posted 05/08/2011
There is still room for you and a friend to attend the P.A.S.S. the Competition running clinic! And now, it is being offered at 2 for the price of 1, or 2 for $69! Don’t miss this clinic, with cutting edge information you won’t find in traditional running magazines. You have until May 12th to register at this price, so sign up today!
Sponsered by Hruska Clinic, Restorative Physical Therapy Services, and B-Fit Personal Training, this clinic is designed for the runner looking to improve performance, hit PR’s, and to avoid injuries. A unique and powerful approach to running in relationship to Position, Agility, Strength and Speed will be provided through demonstration, exercises, training programs, and nutrition education. Lori Thomsen, MPT, PRC and Ryan Richardson, Certified Personal Trainer, are the speakers for this course.
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Posted 05/03/2011
Jen ran her first-ever half-marathon on Sunday, and we are all very happy she reached her goal! Thanks to everyone who wished her well. Make sure and ask her if next year it’s the full Marathon???? 
Posted 04/26/2011
Jen has dedicated the past several months to training for the Lincoln Half Marathon, taking place this Sunday. All of us at the Hruska Clinic are very proud of her committment, hard work and dedication to a very worthy cause - Running For Jess. Here is an excerpt from Jen’s fundraising page:
“I have committed to running the Lincoln 1/2 Martathon this year In Loving Memory of Jessica Lutton Bedient. My cousin Tony and his wife Jess were married on September 3, 2010. Just 5 weeks later, they were hit by a drunk driver in Omaha, and were both critically injured. Jess’s injuries were fatal, while Tony continues to recover physically and emotionally from the crash.
Jess was so involved in community and world-wide service. She spent time in several countries including the Phillipines and Tanzania volunteering at orphanages. She wanted to take Tony to Haiti for their Honeymoon, which unfortunately never happened, as they were hoping to Honeymoon in January when they were both on break from school.
Our team “Run for Jess” goal is to raise $20,000 as we train for the 1/2 marathon, in order to fullfill one of Jess’s goals in life....build a school in Tanzania. I hope to travel with my cousin Tony and other family & friends in 2012 to Tanzania to build this school in Jess’s loving memory.”
To find out more about Jen and her team’s challenge, and about Jess and Tony, click here, here and here!
Posted 03/31/2011
Why is an Eye Doctor Working in a Physical Therapy Clinic? Why do we need our eyes?
Most people’s answers to these questions would be: “My eyes help me see where I am going”, “My eyes tell me where things are around me” or “My eyes help me see small things far away”. All very true and all very important functions of your eyes.
That’s just the beginning. The proverbial ‘scratching of the surface’ of what your eyes do for you as a whole person is often overlooked. Your eyes are actually a part of your brain! The information collecting cells in your eyes are formed from your brain during your development as an embryo. These cells make up what we call the retina. Only 20% of the entire surface of the retina is used to see the bottom line on the eye chart at the doctor’s office. That means that a relatively small area of the retina is used for central vision, and the remaining 80% of the retina surface is used to collect and send information to other parts of the body for non-seeing functions. In addition, 20% of the fibers of the optic nerve, which carry all the information from the eye to the brain, don’t go to the visual cortex at all. Twenty percent of the approximately 1.2 million nerve fibers of each optic nerve are there to control things we take for granted every day like postural adjustment, balance, coordination etc.
This fact makes you wonder what things all the other hundreds of thousands of connections are for, doesn’t it? Where does that information go? What does that information do? Research tells us that information from our eyes goes to areas of the brain that control bodily functions, including but not limited to: posture, emotions, muscle tension, body temperature, memory and attention!
If you are reading this and you have knee pain, back pain, jaw pain, shoulder pain, neck pain, dizziness, headaches etc., and are looking for a solution, then you may have had a light bulb go off above your head when you realized what you just read. You might have thought, “Well, if information from my eyes has an effect on those areas of my brain, then maybe I need to check into this more because I am tired of not living life to it’s fullest due to pain and discomfort.” The more we learn about how input from our eyes affects our bodies, the more we get excited about changing the lives of lots of people. Every time we get feedback from our patients about how our use of this information is helping them, we get excited because these successful outcomes by an optometrist or a physical therapist have never been outlined or summarized through traditional treatments!
Dr. Heidi Wise, like Ron Hruska, has dedicated much of her career to asking the question “why”? Now that she has teamed up with Ron and the other therapists at the Hruska Clinic and Postural Restoration Institute, many of the answers are starting to make sense. We are discovering how eyes have an influence on the rest of the human body. People who have not had long term success with other methods of treating their physical health problems are finding life changing answers at the Hruska Clinic and the Postural Restoration Institute. We have had tremendous success in treating patients, including physical therapists and professional athletes, from all over the United States.
We call this method of treatment Integrative Optometry. What we are doing is ‘integrating’ (mixing together) small changes in what your eyes tell your brain, with PRI physical therapy concepts. This causes physical changes in muscle tension and muscle patterns. These physical changes lead to improved muscle and joint function, and a decrease in symptoms like pain. This is what Dr. Heidi Wise and the physical therapists are doing for Hruska patients, and why ‘there is an eye doctor working in a physical therapy office’. The more she and the therapists learn about the power of integrating visual input with physical therapy, the more patients are being helped. The research and treatments being developed are the first of their kind, and exclusive to the Hruska Clinic. No one else is treating with these methods or with this kind of success. That is very exciting to all of us and our growing list of patients.
If you need new glasses or contacts for driving, or someone to treat your eye infection, then you should visit your local optometrist. If you want answers to problems such as headaches and migraines; dizziness; back pain and tension; difficulties sleeping; jaw, head and neck tightness and pain; eyestrain or a number of other physical ailments, then call the Hruska Clinic and see if we can help. If you have tried traditional physical therapy or other traditional treatments with limited to no success, call and find out if Integrative Optometry might give you some answers . When you do, we believe you may find solutions to your problems, even if you have been told that solutions don’t exist.
Posted 03/22/2011
The third annual Interdisciplinary Integration Course is being held on April 14-16, 2011. This course is offered to professionals of all disciplines and is sponsored by the Postural Restoration Institute™ and held at the Hruska Clinic in Lincoln, Nebraska. At the Hruska Clinic and Postural Restoration Institute™ we believe that professional integration from a variety of providers allows for more successful patient outcomes. The Interdisciplinary Integration Course will offer recommendations on how to manage patients who have had limited success through intra-discipline treatment only. For more information and to register, click here!
Posted 03/18/2011
presenting at the Mid-American Athletic Trainer’s Association (MAATA) - Annual Symposium being held March 17-19 at the Doubletree Hotel in Downtown Omaha. The topic being presented is: Postural Restoration – Biomechanical Influences on the Athlete’s Upper Half and Lower Half. There are 70 athletic trainers attending this annual conference. If you’d like more information, click here! Or check out the MAATA’s website at http://maata.net/
Posted 03/03/2011
Lori Thomsen has checked out the new running shoes for 2011, and here’s her recommendations! If you’ve been waiting to buy that new pair of shoes, click here to see which pairs received her “thumbs up"…
Posted 02/22/2011
to the Postural Restoration Institute in many ways… Click here for more on Jason’s activities. Click here for Lori’s recent PRI blog.
Posted 02/22/2011
The Hruska Clinic has an excellent opportunity available for a full time outpatient physical therapist. The Hruska Clinic was the first clinic in the nation to be designated as a Postural Restoration Certified (PRC) Center and is the driving force behind the science of the Postural Restoration Institute. We are looking for a PRC physical therapist (or able to sit for certification in the near future) that is passionate about PRI – living it and practicing it. You must be highly motivated with a strong desire to learn. You will be working with a knowledgeable team of PRI physical therapists and contributing daily to the successful outcomes of the Hruska Clinic.
Requirements include:
Enthusiasm for educating patients, physical therapists, physicians and other healthcare providers in PRI
Openness to integrating with other healthcare professionals for a team approach to patient care
Eagerness to promote, grow and expand the science of PRI
Flexibility to work a full schedule consisting of a variety of patient populations from all across the country
Click Here to Apply!
Posted 02/17/2011
Ron Hruska wrote a blog on the Postural Restoration Institute’s website regarding the eye and Integration. Click here to learn more about vision integration and the upcoming course in Lincoln…
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Posted May 8, 2011 at 9:57am by Lori Thomsen.
