Neal Hallinan, Postural Restoration Trained (PRT), CSCS, LMT in Northern New Jersey

Important Session Details:

I do my Postural Restoration sessions at The Bodyshop/K2 Fitness at 17 Watchung Avenue in Chatham. It’s a small gym in which I rent a small private room in the back. 

If coming from NYC, the gym is about 1.5 miles from both the Chatham and Summit train stations. 

Payment can be made via cash, check, Venmo or Zelle at the time of the session . I do not take insurance. 

Most people see me for help with idiopathic pain. In other words, pain of “unknown origin”.  If it’s something I can help with, they will generally need between 3-6 sessions (depending on the issue), although not in consecutive weeks. They can be spaced out over months. Please don’t expect miracles in one session. While many people do feel a difference after one session, this is true neuro-muscular training, albeit in unique way, and there is progression involved. 

My schedule is limited over the next few months due to various PRI projects I’m working on, including a presentation I’ll be giving at PRI next April about the role music in PRI programs, rehearsals (and the necessary travel) for my second theater production, and further documenting my own PRI journey. 

Please don’t e-mail me asking for alternative times (I’m not trying to be a jerk). What is listed on the calendar is all that is available.

Parking

There is a parking lot with plenty of spaces. The gym is toward the front of the building, to the right of the parking lot. 

Sneakers

This link is to the PRI Shoe List

https://www.hruska-clinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2023-SHOE-LIST-V3-PATIENT-HAND-OUT-October.pdf

It’s imperative that the sneakers you wear to the session match the criteria found on the shoe list. They don’t have to be on the list, but they have to match the criteria. Please watch this video to understand why.

Teeth/Jaw

Our jaw and teeth greatly influence our postural stability and movement because of the jaw’s muscular connections to our neck. Some people are given oral appliances like night guards that may prevent them from grinding, but could cause neck problems that then spread all the way down the spine to the pelvis. If you wear any oral appliances, please bring it to the session. 

Glasses/Contacts

If you wear glasses or contacts (or both), please know your prescription and bring both the glasses/contacts and prescription to the session and don’t leave them in the car. Bring them inside. 

If your glasses are progressive lenses, meaning they have “distance/intermediate/near” all in the same lens, I will not be able to help at all. I know it sounds crazy, but this is a known issue in the Postural Restoration world. These types of glasses cut out some peripheral vision. 

Peripheral vision is what your brain uses to locate your body in space as you stand and move forward. This means our postural stability is influenced by what we are seeing, or not seeing. We need all our peripheral vision, not just some of it. You’ll need a single distance lens before we can do a session.

The Postural Restoration Institute changed my life.

Not only did it permit me to identify the source of my chronic pain, but PRI put me on a fulfilling career path I never expected.

What is my expertise?

• 11 years of PRI practice and experience as being the ultimate PRI “patient”.
• 20 years of experience in strength and conditioning (CSCS).
• I was a featured presenter at the 2022 Postural Restoration Institute’s Symposium on Basal Ganglia disease.
• Recipient of the 2020-2021 PRI “Directors Dedication Award” for my dedication to advancing the science of Postural Restoration.
• Credentialed PRI personal trainer. This is my page on their website
• Close to 40 Postural Restoration Institute Seminars including lab assisting at four of them.
• Licensed Massage Therapist.
• I taught latin dancing for 15 years. “Rhythmic dancing to music is the highest art of bipedal function”. Ron Hruska, founder of the Postural Restoration Institute.

Only the tinnitus and hernia remain, but the tinnitus is greatly reduced so that it no longer interferes with my life and the hernia doesn’t really bother me.