PRI

Question 1

What are the PRI beliefs?

Answer 1

1. the body is asymmetrical
2. respiration
3. system integration
4. polyarticular myokinetic chains
5. neutrality

Question 2

True or false:

⅔ of adolescent female do not have equal hip rotation ROM

Answer 2

True

• fundamentally asymmetrical
• BUT too much asymmetry can be bad

Question 3

Breathing in [increases/decreases] the zone of apposition.

Answer 3

Decreases

Question 4

What are the following movements of each structure during inspiration:
Ribs
Diaphragm
lumbar spine
thoracic spine

Answer 4

Ribs = ER
Diaphragm = flattens
lumbar = lordosis (extends)
Thoracic = flattens (extends)

Question 5

What should you do if your find your patient has tight hamstrings?

Answer 5

weak abdominals tend to result in tight hamstrings

• avoid stretching hammies
• strengthen core
• inhibit hammies after core is woken up

Question 6

Orientation of sternum to right results in

Answer 6

• Left Diaphragm decreased ZOA
• Left Triangularis Sterni (Transversus Thoracis) poor position to function
• IO’s, EO’s, TA’s all messed up