12/11/2024
Props to my brilliant wife Sarah Plumer-Holzman DPT, OCS, CFMT.
"Wawrzyniak credits her progress to Sarah Plumer-Holzman, a senior physical therapist at NYU Langone’s Harkness Center for Dance Injuries and a fellow climber.
Plumer-Holzman focused on Wawrzyniak’s left ankle, hip, foot and gait to get her moving properly again.
“She needed to learn how to get her foot to fully relax on the ground,” Plumer-Holzman explained. “As soon as she got into a squat or just a step onto that foot, her foot just wanted to roll to the outside, and her toes wanted to scrunch.”
She prescribed a series of exercises, including raising the calf and standing on a balancing disc, that Wawrzyniak still does at home."
“I did a bunch of 360 flips in the air, upside down, hitting various body parts, trying to arrest myself, but everything was covered in ice,” Brooklyn resident Martynka Wawrzyniak recal…