Newsletter & Blog

Featured today in the NY Times! Contracting your pelvic floor muscles can help improve sexual function, bowel and bladder function, supports the low back, and a well-trained pelvic physical therapist can teach you how to properly perform them! Click here to read more      [...]

Using this awesome taping technique in conjunction with specific diastasis recti corrective exercises, manual therapies, use of an abdominal binder, and improved motor planning this patient had a reduction of a 3 finger diastasis recti width to 1.5 fingers and improved abdominal connective tissue appearance over several weeks. The inner or medial horizontal taping technique helped to approximate the rectus abdominus muscle (also known as the six-pack) and the outer or lateral taping, known as the "y" or "w" techniques, is indicated for support of connective tissues and abdomen to promote heali[...]

Great article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal on how your alignment affects how you feel and how you function. Stand upright keeping your ears over your shoulders and shoulders over your hips/pelvis. This is especially important while texting in standing. Also keep upright when sitting at the computer. Hunching forward causes tightness in the chest muscles, rounds the shoulders forward, and puts abnormal strain on the neck and low back. And while driving try to use a lumbar support roll behind your back or wedge pillow under your bottom to maintain better posture in a bucket seat! Poor post[...]

This month we celebrate being in business for 14 years! It has been wonderful serving the tri-state area, Long Island and all of our national and international patients that travel to receive our care. We hope to continue to help patients achieve their goals for many more years to come! [...]

Our second pregnancy treatment table has arrived finally! Its removable belly piece allows for greater comfort if a patient needs to assume prone (lying face down) for treatment. Our patients love the treatment table (with belly cut out) we currently have and now we can accommodate them even further! [...]

One of our post partum patients was being seen for a diastasis recti and stress urinary incontinence and she brought in her 5 1/2 month infant complaining that he had not an unassisted bowel movement since birth. He also suffered from severe reflux. She was instructed to give her son a rectal suppository once per week by her pediatrician which caused one bowel movement per week only. We found that the baby had visceral mobility and motility impairments of his cardiac sphincter (the valve between the stomach and esophagus), ascending colon, sigmoid, small intestine, stomach, hepatic portal syst[...]

Our pelvic floor muscles perform a range of important functions. They help us maintain continence, help stabilize our pelvis and spine, and play key roles in sexual function and breathing.This is an informative video to help you learn about your pelvic floor musculature! Click here to view video    [...]

Physical Therapy for Painful Intercourse Related to Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction and Vulvodynia Sofie has made wonderful progress with physical therapy. Her sessions were comprised of various manual therapies applied to her pelvic girdle, spine, hips, perineum, and pelvic floor muscles. She also utilized a home surface EMG biofeedback unit to learn how to relax and downtrain her overactive pelvic floor muscles. Her first surface EMG test revealed a resting tone of 6.79uv (green line) with many noted spikes or spasms occurring. After 4 months of PT having 1-2 sessions per week, we see a fan[...]

Yesterday we evaluated 3 new pregnant patients. All with different complaints: severe low back pain at 38 weeks, unrelenting rib pain at 20 weeks, and coccyx pain at 39 weeks. These are all common complaints with pregnancy and easily treated once a good biomechanical evaluation has been done. The patient with severe low back pain had an L5 (lumbar vertebrae #5) misalignment and severe quadratus lumborum ( a deep low back muscle) spasms. She was 50% improved after her first session. The patient with rib pain had a dysfunctional breathing pattern, restriction of her respiratory diaphragm mobilit[...]

We will continue to celebrate women and help them achieve all of their rehab goals with compassion and sincerity for their well being. [...]