PSR® Critical Body Response - Preventing Injury

The occupational hazards in the Fire Service are ranked serious contenders as the highest injury producing factors of any professional working arena. Disability injury in the Fire Services has reached epidemic proportions. In addition to the toll in pain and loss of professional resource personnel, the medical, Worker's Compensation premiums, and replacement costs, are forcing cutbacks in needed new Fire service operations staff and equipment. A highly specialized body mechanics safety and critical body response training agency has emerged at the forefront with successful results and statistics in reducing and controlling the 70% of preventable disability injuries to firefighting personnel. The P.S.R. Corporation - Professional Safeguard Response - has engineered highly effective training in Firefighter body mechanics safety and critical body response technique in the following arenas:

The P.S.R. Training has been distinguished in its techniques and results with Fire Departments and agencies as diverse as Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratories Fire Dept./emergency response team, and municipal, military, industrial administrations in the field. Indeed, some of the larger California Municipal Fire Departments are particularly impressed with the P.S.R. System for reflexive safe lifting from routine to emergency conditions. This training in professional career orientation to preventing back-related injuries, effectively establish an automatic safeguard response while still focused on the tasks at hand. To quote a municipal Fire Chief who's Department's back injury loss statistics were effectively changed with a handful of trained clinics "... the old business of keeping your back straight and lifting with your legs is totally inadequate in the real world. It is my opinion that knowing and practicing the P.S.R. principles is essential in protecting one's back. I use them and make a point of describing them to others." (1) The medical point-of-view from a prominent, senior neuro-spinal surgeon, who has observed the effects and results of this training for a number of years is as follows:

"... P.S.R. training more effectively lowers injury rates by its combined emphasis on Western medical practice and certain Eastern physical sciences in a highly comprehensive approach to changing occupational circumstances. P.S.R. teaches automatic and critical body response which reduce spinal stress by reeducating the body to support weight and stress with reflexive actions that utilize physical laws of stability and creates distinctly less rotational and compressive stress to the spine. It develops an automatic and natural response. The originator, Jack S. Kanner, is recognized internationally as an authority on the Japanese physical sciences and has subsequently developed safety response systems with far-reaching applications in the areas of protective/emergency response and occupational health and safety. P.S.R. lowers injury rates and helps people to feel better and more confident when they are faced with fatigue, with ordinary or extraordinary demands upon their backs. Wider application of these principles results in less time lost from work and a marked decrease in the need for spinal surgery". (2) P.S.R. rescue techniques for a fallen firefighter (without available assistance), medical carries, and extraction procedures, are considered by the military base Fire Chiefs who have seen them as "valuable" and "a cut above". (3) Any standard fire techniques for preventing injury to the rescuer and effectiveness of response. P.S.R. training gains the "respect and willing participation of firefighters and was well as the weight displacement procedures, the stability enhancement and response to unanticipated or necessitated falls should be standard firefighter training.." (4) The chief instructor/CEO of this risk control training agency, Jack Kanner, states, "The cost of P.S.R. training for a firefighter is always less than the cost of one day's replacement. The techniques and principles will remain to a greater degree for the career of the firefighter and are a highly effective investment in promoting a natural retirement.

The article appearing on this page appeared in California Fire Journal and was written by Jack. S. Kanner - CEO, PSR® Corporation

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disability injury - workers' compensation - replacement cost - preventing back related injuries - lower injury rates -medical carries- extraction procedures - risk control training