Physician Update

July 14, 2010

Re:     An Amazing New Treatment Technique

Dear Doctors:

I try to avoid superlatives in describing new treatment techniques for musculoskeletal pain. Many of them are a repackaging of someone else’s work or are just modest improvements on what came before.  For the past 4 years I have been using techniques that are truly new and more amazing than anything I have seen.

Primal Reflex Release Technique (PRRT) was developed by John Iams, a California physical therapist.  According to Iams, PRRT is a gentle way of “down-regulating” an “up-regulated” sympathetic nervous system, the state many people in our culture find themselves due to stress or trauma.  When the sympathetic nervous system is down-regulated, people come into a more relaxed state and pain, even chronic pain, is eliminated or reduced. 

One could argue with Iams’ theories, but I cannot argue with the results.  Here are a few examples.

1. Many headaches, even longstanding headaches, resolve in a matter of minutes or seconds.

2. A patient with four back surgeries was improving slowing as he was undergoing rehab here, but still had strong LBP and RLE pain.  In one session of PRRT, the LE pain resolved and did not return.  The back pain was reduced to 2/10, a level he could live with.

3. Iams’ does not claim that PRRT will cure fibromyalgia, but we have seen dramatic improvements in symptoms and in patients’ abilities to manage their conditions.

4. We have had two patients with Parkinson’s Disease show immediate improvement in their flexibility, gait, and ADL after PRRT.

To learn more, visit our website at urbanaphysicaltherapy.com or John Iams’ website: theprrt.com.  There is brief video demonstration on John’s website.

Sincerely,

Chris Cotter, P.T.