The Primal Reflex Release Technique™ (PRRT, pronounced "pert") is a manual-therapy approach to evaluate and relieve your pain. PRRT is often able to accomplish in just seconds what joint mobilization and manipulation, trigger point therapy, and soft tissue and myofascial release can do over time.
PRRT has been found effective in more than 80% of patients with painful conditions. How can it be so successful? Your body is usually in a state of over-stimulation. This keeps you in a state of pain patterns occurring again and again. Reflexes such as being startled, withdrawal, and the protective joint reflexes work to keep you alive. When a person experiences a painful or startling event, these reflexes are triggered in an attempt to protect the body.
Unfortunately, these reflexes stay hyper-ready long after they need to be. This results in patterns of pain that are reproduced, repeated, and maintained. It interferes with healing and resists therapeutic efforts to restore natural function.
PRRT addresses muscle and joint receptors along with their spinal modulation. These often overlooked and seldom-treated areas of the body are the cause and solution for many types of pain, including:
- Restricted motion
- Pain with or without motion
- Reduced spontaneity of motion
- Muscle tightness, stiffness, and/or tension
The Primal Reflex Release Technique™ treatment system offers an innovative combination and application of techniques that facilitate rapid “neural reboot.” This neural reboot resets the neural control of joints, muscles, and fascia to release joint restrictions, trigger points, and fascial restrictions not unlike when you reboot your computer.