Blog Entries by Becky Fisher
Posted 01/27/2012
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PRI, the science of the physical therapy approach developed right here in Lincoln by Ron Hruska, is going global! Not only has it been taught to health professionals all over the United States, the Postural Restoration Institute has also had classes in South Korea and Poland. Now, James Anderson will be traveling to Hong Kong to teach and share the approach that is practiced every day with our patients here at the Hruska Clinic. For more information on the science and all the courses offered, check out the Postural Restoration Institute’s website!
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Posted 12/29/2011
P.A.S.S. the Competition running clinic will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2011! Don’t miss this clinic, with cutting edge information you won’t find in traditional running magazines.
Sponsered by Hruska Clinic, Restorative Physical Therapy Services, 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 Bridget Easely, R.D. (who recently qualified for the Olympic trials in January 2012!), are the speakers for this course.
Click here for more information! To email Lori, …
Posted 10/27/2011
On Wednesday, the 19th of October, Dave went to Omaha and did an informative talk to a group of about 100 physical and occupational therapists. The event was sponsored by Gentiva, a home health organization, but was open to therapists in and around the Omaha area whether they work in home health or not. Gentiva holds the event annually, but this is the first year that a talk was done about Postural Restoration. Dave provided an introduction to the group about Postural Restoration, and he felt the information was well received. Dave says he felt honored to represent the Hruska Clinic and the Postural Restoration Institute and looks forward to similar opportunities in the future.
Interested in having Dave as a speaker? Send him an email !
Posted 10/26/2011
And, don’t forget we’re collecting food for the Lincoln Food Pantry! So, check out our Facebook page here, AND stop in and see the real things in person! You can donate your food and vote again…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN from the Hruska Clinic!!!
Posted 10/24/2011
Click here to read about Ron’s dream of the Priori Pool becoming a reality...
Posted 10/19/2011
Halloween is fast approaching, and our staff will be having a pumpkin carving contest to raise money and food for the local food bank. Our patients, families and friends will be able to vote for their favorite jack-o-lantern, and contribute to a great cause by donating non-perishable food for the Lincoln Food Pantry. So, if you have an appointment next week remember your donation and vote for your choice to win our contest!
Posted 10/12/2011
Recently here at the Hruska Clinic we have been dealing with some technical issues. A power outage damaged our phone and voicemail system and access to our server for a few days. Things are looking better now but if we did not return a message (phone or e-mail) please contact us again so we can make sure we answer any questions you may have. Thanks for your patience as we get our systems back on track!
Posted 09/21/2011
Please bear with us as this new addition is added on to our existing building. Construction will be completed in January 2012.
What is PRI Vision? Click here to learn more…
Posted 09/20/2011
Click here to read an excellent article on the why blowing up a balloon is such an important part of your home program…
Posted 09/09/2011
Lori is taking questions for her running blog! So here is your chance to ask our favorite “PRI running expert” whatever is on your mind… Lori will choose several of the submitted questions and make video blogs that will be posted here! To email your question(s), …
Posted 06/23/2011
To join our team, you must have excellent customer service skills and be to able complete tasks with numerous interuptions. For more specifics on job duties, click here. Position is weekdays, varying shifts (flexibility in schedule is a plus), ~ 15-20 hours per week. Please email resume and availability to , or fax to 402.467.4580.
Posted 06/17/2011
The Postural Restoration Institute recently announced the credentialing process specifically designed for Certified Athletic Trainers and Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialists. Postural Restoration Trained (PRT) has been selected as the designation to be awarded to ATCs and CSCSs who attend the required courses and successfully complete an educational process of application and testing.
Jason Masek was part of the 5 person committee that collaborated and made recommendations on the requirements for the PRT designation. To read more about this exciting announcement, click here!
Posted 06/08/2011
Jen Gloystein has been asked to present at the 2011 Nebraska State Athletic Trainers Association - Summer Workshop on Saturday July 9th. For one hour Jen will discuss PRI and the influence of the thorax on the shoulder in athletic injuries. To attend Jen’s presentation on the overhead athlete, click here!
Posted 05/20/2011
which was written for the Postural Restoration Institute’s website, click here!
Posted 05/17/2011
Lori and Ryan received great comments and feedback - here’s a sampling: “Great course! I never actually considered how much we prefer our right legs and how much it affects our running. Thanks a lot!”; “I think it’s great you are getting new and more beneficial info out there instead of outdated methods that often lead to injuries - very helpful!”; “Extremely beneficial!”; “Wish my personal trainer had been able to attend today - will definitely recommend that she come to the next clinic!”; “Excellent manual! Love the pictures and printouts, and the recipes are great! Loved the shoe demonstration & recommendation sheet.”
Have a running question for Lori? Email her !
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 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…
Posted 01/20/2011
Congratulations Bobbie and Mark!
Posted 01/06/2011
The teleseminar is launching on January 11th with a new interview going up every week through March 15. Ron’s interview is scheduled for January 18th. The interviews are FREE to all, but you do need to SIGN-UP in order to receive links to the interviews. Click here for more information…
Posted 05/21/2010
To read more, click here! Questions for Jason? Send him an …
Posted 05/21/2010
High School soccer player Hannah and her Dad talk about her physical therapy results… click here!
Posted 04/23/2010
If you’re thinking about buying a new pair of shoes, click here to watch a video by Lori Thomsen to learn what PRI recommends…
To email Lori, !
Posted 04/08/2010
When Ron isn’t in the Clinic seeing patients ~ he’s teaching (his other passion!)… Find out what he’s got coming up by clicking here and here!
Posted 03/25/2010
Jen Gloystein writes about staionary bikes, and the pros and cons of the upright vs. recumbent bike when adding this workout to your PRI program. Click here to read her Healthy Hint!
Posted 02/05/2010
Overwhelmed by all the different choices when it comes to finding the right mattress? Ron Hruska offers his PRI recommendations on what to look for when selecting a new mattress. CLICK HERE!
Posted 09/16/2009
Ron Hruska and Jason Masek will be traveling to Warsaw this September to present at the 1st International Congress of Polish Rehabilitation. This presentation follows Michal Niedzielski and Gregory Parfianowicz successful instruction of the Postural Restoration Institute’s (PRI) Myokinematic Restoration course last year. PRI is excited about the continued expansion of Postural Restoration in Poland and the opportunity to educate internationally!
“The Congress will be held on September 10 – 13, 2009 at the University of Economics and Computer Science in Warsaw. The outstanding specialists in rehabilitation and physiotherapy, physicians dealing with these branches, researchers and students of rehabilitation and physiotherapy from academic centres worldwide will participate in the Congress. We expect around 1000 participants from Poland and other countries (it is worth mentioning that there are over 20,000 specialists in physiotherapy and rehabilitation in Poland). Apart from scientific sessions and the widely understood context of physiotherapy and rehabilitation, we are planning to organize Therapeutic Panel Meetings.”
Congrats Ron and Jason - and have fun!
Posted 01/21/2009
The Hruska Clinic is proud to announce that Bobbie Ninneman is now Postural Restoration Certified! Certification is a result of advanced training, extraordinary interest and devotion to the science of postural adaptations, asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polyarticular chains of muscles on the human body as defined by the Postural Restoration Institute. The certification process of both clinical and analytical examination took place on December 8th and 9th at the Postural Restoration Institute™ under the direction of Ron Hruska and James Anderson. Forty therapists nationwide are now recognized as Postural Restoration Certified - this includes Jason Masek and Lori Thomsen, also on staff with us. Congratulations!
Posted 10/13/2008
Lori Thomsen will be running in the Chicago Marathon this weekend! After months of training, our “resident runner” will be checking out the Windy City by running 26.2 miles with 45,000 others - Good Luck Lori!
Posted 10/01/2008
Jason Masek provided an inservice to 8 Physical and Occupational therapists in Chapel Hill, North Carolina the weekend of September 19-20. Jason’s time was spent reviewing PRI concepts with the therapists, and also consulting with them on various case studies regarding PRI exercise progression.
More blog entries can be found in the archives…
