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Very few practitioners are aware of the influence reflexes have on musculoskeletal pain, specifically referring to protective reflexes. A reflex is any movement occurring automatically and involuntarily as a result of the nervous system’s reaction to a stimulus. The strongest primal reflexes are the startle, withdrawal and protective joint reflexes.
We’re gifted…or cursed, even before birth, with primal, protective reflexes. Most seemingly disappear within months after birth. The startle and the withdrawal reflexes remain. Both are hard wired into our brain stem and spinal cord respectively. Why were these two reflexes retained? Could it be they were crucial to our health and wellness? Why is there so little written about them in the medical literature.
Practitioners have failed to recognize the presence of facilitated reflexes. These reflexes are some of the more common reasons why you are in pain.
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About John Iams, M.A.,P.T.
John was born in San Diego , CA and continued living in San Diego until he was accepted into the Physical Therapy Program at the University of California School of Medicine in San Francisco . Upon graduation, he was commissioned an ensign in the U.S. Navy and served 3 years as a physical therapist during the Vietnam War. He also married Vonnie Hardesty at that time and continues to be married to her to this day. They have 3 sons who've graduated from school and done very well in their careers.
Upon finishing his tour of duty as the Chief Physical Therapist at Corpus Christi Naval Air Station Hospital , John returned to graduate school at U.S.C. to earn his Masters Degree in Physical Therapy. While there, John was fortunate to work directly with Jacqueline Perry, M.D., whose work in musculoskeletal rehabilitation at Rancho Los Amigos has become renowned. John was her teaching assistant and was the only one at the time to be allowed to attend the surgical anatomy lectures for the medical orthopedic residents at Rancho Los Amigos.
John's interest in anatomy grew and he took the highest level anatomy and neuro-anatomy courses at the U.S.C. School of Medicine. He's now qualified to teach these courses in a medical school if he chooses to. Leaving U.S.C., John returned to San Diego and was appointed the Director of the Physical Therapy Assistant Program at San Diego City College . He held that position for 3 years but yearned to return to patient care. He opened his private practice, Physical Therapy Institute, Inc. in Poway CA and continued with it until he sold it in mid 2005. During this period, John had 4 different locations for PTI, Inc. and all were very successful. He sold these to allow himself time to concentrate on SuperSpine, Inc., his R&D firm for the invention of products for pain relief.
John now concentrates his time between lecturing, researching, writing and mentoring instructors for his Basic PRRT™ Seminars. His passion is to ease the pain and suffering of mankind and he's taken big strides already in doing that.
John's 2500 sq.ft. library / multimedia / seminar center has become legendary. It may be the largest private library of it's kind in the world, with many out-of-print volumes. John continues to treat private patients in his center and sees a number of high profile athletes and professionals. Patients fly in from around the country to seek out his help and they usually find it's the most valuable work they've ever had done. Not one has ever left San Diego saying PRRT™ was of no help.