My name is Neal Hallinan. I'm a Postural Restoration Institute credentialed strength and conditioning coach, licensed massage therapist (New Jersey) and perhaps most importantly, someone who suffered from chronic pain through most of my adult life.
This channel was created to help you understand why the science of Postural Restoration is the best explanation for how you move, breathe, and stabilize your body whenever you are upright.
Simply put, when we can no longer move, breathe, and stabilize properly, we end up compensating and it's the compensations that eventually lead to pain. Postural Restoration works by restoring your body's natural patterns of movement in order to eliminate these painful compensations.
I overcame chronic and debilitating pain to live a happy, productive, and fulfilling life.
You can, too.
If you decide you'd like personalized help, I offer some limited on-line Zoom consultations. pritrainer.com/on-line-consultations/
Loving your des ription of posture fails due to biomechanics and sensory limitations snd environmental conditions. Easy to follow but my brain does not keep up with sensory input so need to watch often.
Great video Neal, I really love these ones especially because PRI’s weight training course wasn’t so hot so they took it down, but you still show some PRI concepts with weight training which we love. Also thank-you so much for any of the dental and visual integration podcast interviews you do, those are also golden
It might be nice if you cut out all the talking and spend more time demonstrating the actual movement as an addition to this. Sometimes just the recipe is helpful without the explication.
Specialist here. 100% agreed. Over the past 6 years all clients I have seen with SI issues had extremely underactive obliques (as well as other systems of course). Activation of these systems did address their SI. I activate systems a bit differently than PRI (though of course there is breathing included), but I completely agree. Car accident led to all of my issues, almost the same as what you mentioned. Eerily similar actually. My own left side SI issues were 100% permanently solved by addressing my left obliques..and eventually my left quad/left glute/left arch/ etc.
I really think this could be my issue. I had severe eye pain back in January where and became bedridden weeks. It then transformed into jaw pain so bad that I thought I had broken my jaw and even eye socket. I was rushed to the ER where i felt like my brain was out of my body and I was a zombie. They told me I was perfectly healthy. I then played in bed for many months with the most crippling neck and back pain and till this moment still have. I’ve been going to physical therapy for months but the issues never seem to get better. I ve gotten an MRI and that say I’m fine as well. The other day I put my “nighttime driving” glasses for playing video games at night when, for a moment, my brain and body felt like it reconstructed itself and I felt like I was completely straight again, but that only lasted a few seconds. I’ve had an MRI and XRays done but no results as well. No Doctor has found anything wrong with me and I feel lost at this point. Do any of these symptoms sound like an extreme result of this case? Can you give me any insight or private message? I’m only 23 and I feel like a victim of a severe car accident without actually being in one. Didn’t mean to ramble, I just want to live my life again. Any help is appreciated
Your explanations and demos have reached next level in terms of clarity and understanding for a layperson. This is the one I’m now sending to family members. I think/hope it’ll really help them get the “why” part instead of just giving me a blank face and saying “ok so what do I do to fix it?”.
Hi Neal, I've got a question about the material. I can choose for acrylic hardness 1-2-3 so kinda soft, medium hard or hard. Do you know what's best for us wanting to reposition the crossbite? How hard is your acrylic splint? I can choose between 1.5mm and 3mm thickness as well. Does that matter?
Thank you. Very interesting. Good explanation - I am hyper flexible, find it difficult to squat low ( taught to squat on one heel on Australian farm - old fashioned; but can’t do that now with hip issues. ) You are correct - I have only just searched/ found out about QL etc muscles - only because of pain. I sportily pulled them badly with Puppy plus unseen toy - so pain and recovery needed - to understand. Hip issues from accident has caused issues; but I now realise that use it or lose it has been happening, especially post menopause; so I am slowly re- building balance and ROM. It is also enlightening to see how the environment can limit the ROM ! 🤔Stunned by the impact! Cheers and thanks🙏🏼
My right hip joint is blocked and I have bunion on my right feet...can you please tell me wich side should I strenghten ? P.S. Sorry, it is little hard me to follow and understand clearly video/sound in English
I have double vision since an eye surgery at age nine to fix a lazy eye (right eye was turned inward). I have such severe postural issues causing so much pain, along with a badly twisted pelvis and rotated left hip. I just started PT with a professional who has started me off with trying to build up my left glute. I have extreme difficulty getting air to go all the way down on the left side, so many of the things you’re pointing out on this video. I wish I could come see you
This is fascinating!!! So glad I found it! Will share with friends and clients! Thank you!! I'm a craniosacral therapist in Seattle and this is excellent content!!
Hunkering... Hunters do it and draw the farmer in to join in hunkering. Then with a stick drawing a map in the dirt of the farmers field the hunter asks the farmer if it is ok to cross his field so he can hunt in the woods across the way handing the stick to the farmer to draw the permitted route. between hunkering hunters and farmers passing the stick is the route to permission. In distant past and when hunting... hunkering was the position we poop into a shallow hole we cover up and magickly in days the poop becomes fertile topsoil. Now we don't, We just mix our poop with water, urine, detergent you get a toxic dangerous, explosive, expensive ecological nightmare. .
What does it mean when I put my left hand up and feel my left obliques instead of the right obliques? When I put my right hand up, I don’t feel anything
Neal I have watched the majority of your content... and I know you have content on these topics... but the one piece of information I am having the most trouble understanding is whether individuals should get adaptations or changes to their system immediately... or if every time performed correctly it is one step closer... meaning maybe after 2 weeks the nervous system could decide to make the change. The reason I am having trouble with this is my practitioner doesn't use PRI methods to treat me, he uses PRI tests to evaluate me, but uses these other methods that make a neurological change to me instantly, yet I'm currently learning PRI and don't have the knowledge of his techniques. Would you say with the perfect technique, where an individual is able to feel all the correct reference centres, that they should have an immediate change in their test... or is it more likely that it might take the technique done twice per day for 1-2 weeks to make the change. This is definitely the one piece of information that I feel less clear about after watching 95% of your content (probably 100% of all that is PRI related). Thank you Neal
Also the reason I am unclear is I see people get instant changes on your channel depending on shoes, balloons, environment, etc little tricks that you have.... but then PRI and you in many videos mention that twice daily the non manual techniques should be used. Whereas my practitioner believes with the right manual and/or non manual technique the change is instant... and he also proves this to me but without PRI techniques... they are modified techniques he has learnt from other courses that have principles that somehow interrelate. Thanks Neal
@@jacksonmargosis6604 Establishing neutrality is easy as long as the cranium (vision/teeth/jaw) aren’t involved. I can do that in a few minutes (or less), but that is simply the starting point. It takes longer to integrate/stabilize, which is what the Hruska adduction/abduction tests show you. Getting neutral is really just about using reference centers to inhibit overactivity. Stability integration is progressing through various positions (sidelying, upright etc..) and how many muscles you are trying to integrate at once. That is far more time consuming than getting neutral and takes motor/nervous system learning.
@@NealHallinan That is the perfect response to me and this is where I used to be at with my thought process before it's been muddled up.... Awesome... I'm going to study Dan's gait and reference centre articles on those lifts today and build out a process for understanding what a client has/doesn't have based on those tests, and which techniques would be appropriate based on these results. Legend... thank again Neal
What you’ve explained is me to a T. Thank you for your knowledge. Been trying soo many things, making myself worse at times. I quit going to PT’s b/c the ones I’ve seen just don’t have the knowledge, in the mean time, things get worse.
What is the cause of pain and tightness at the iliac crest front side a bit in the back of it. Not as much tho. It feels that is locked feeling this chronically on both sides? Maybe this could be a good video idea ?!
Hi Neal do you think disturbances from the facial nerves could cause patterns like this. Since they removed a tumor from my left parotis which caused damage on the nerve obviously my whole spine is shifted to the left extremely. thanks for all your great videos!
Biomechanics really helps clarify intention. I can focus during breathing exercises on exhaling left, inhaling right. I did that while listening to you and experienced instantaneous shift in my posture. Practice makes perfect!
Wait. Is this why i always get light headed, especially when I’m stressed out? Is this also why i passed out while going down on a staircase high on acid and shrooms and broke my vertebrae at C6-c7 and almost ended up paralyzed?!!!!! Did my muscles and spine just both give up on me?!!
This information is gold.. Thank goodness. Neal I have this issue but I feel that my left glute is weaker. But right QL is more active. What would you recommend for me?
I am a yogi and former dancer with hypermobility, trauma history and a somatic psychotherapy practice. Your information is so fascinating and fits my gestalt/felt sense knowing. So nice to hear pieces being put together in a linear manner.
Absolutely 110 per cent relatable to my situation . Thank you for the very valuable info ! I’ve been trying to watch your channel from the beginning as I just discovered it about 2 weeks ago ..
I’m legally blind and have an eye disease that’s causing me to keep losing more and more sight. Am I screwed? I’ve been seeing a PRI specialist for awhile now and I can’t feel any changes
A huge key part of this (helpful but super long winded, let’s be honest!) video was the weird balloon adjustment you did in the middle of the video. What the heck was that and how are we supposed to take advantage of that technique? Please advise! Thanks.
From a PRI perspective, does it make sense that my left hip lacks external rotation and my right hip lacks internal rotation(resulting in tight R SI joint)? Thank you.
Perfect timing for this to be in my thread. I couldn’t remember PRI as I’m now at a point to get this help. I’ve been hurting for years right SI and right mid to lower ribs (side)
This is not just important for SI joint pain but helps solve many other biomechanical issues. As a Functional movement coach, I spend all day instructing clients on how to connect and strengthen their internal oblique on the left side. Thank you Neil, its good to know I am on the right track.
what am I to do if my 4 maulers were removed when I was around 12? Also I have astigmatism and I'm wearing glasses (I think it's a little bit more in a left eye as far as I can remember). I feel like I'm quite fit, doing yoga, twerk, high heels dance (although I'm a bit unstable, and e.g. piruettes are very hard for me) and pole dance now. But in the past I had a lot of problems with my nervous and emotional dysregulation, I was addicted to opioids for 7 years for this reason.
