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Flow Physiotherapy

Physical therapy practice specializing in pelvic floor and orthopedics

10/30/2025

Are you gripping your glutes right now?! STOP!

We often hear patients say they can’t feel their glutes with exercise, excessive gripping could be why. Not to mention, this tightens your pelvic floor (and not in a good way) and loads your lower back.

This tucked posture will often come up postpartum, especially when carrying or wearing your baby. It’s also a common compensation during hip hinge exercises (RDLs, bridges, squats). Avoid leaning back and picture sending your SIT bones back as you hinge down. Press through your heels and return upright, firing the glutes. This will also keep your pelvic floor moving in a healthy way, both eccentricity and concentrically loading the muscles.

It’s ok to tuck your pelvis with some exercises, especially in barre or with some pilates movements, but you should be training your body in hip hinges as well! (Your pelvic floor, glutes, and lumbar spine will thank you!)

10/22/2025

The rib cage…

Often an overlooked connection when addressing pelvic floor dysfunction, back pain and neck pain. It’s where your diaphragm anchors, links to your thoracic spine and is an integral part of controlling intra-abdominal pressure. It’s also the location of our solar plexus, associated with self-confidence and personal power. The ribs are greatly affected by pregnancy and require specific focus when restoring core strength.

10/15/2025

As we celebrate our sixth anniversary, we’re filled with immense gratitude for all of our patients, referrals and cheerleaders along the way! We love helping our neighbors and bumping into you in the gym, dog park, kiddie parks and piers of BBP, and in DUMBO’s local spots! (esp in our building lobby) 💗

Thank you for choosing us when it comes to your health! Helping our neighbors get back to the things that bring them joy is our absolute pleasure! Opening this practice 5 months before the pandemic was interesting timing, but our amazing patients and their strong word of mouth kept us going! 💗

Thank you to the wonderful women who helped us get going and gave us the courage do it! You’re the best and 💗

We’re excited for the future! Get ready for some running content with 🏃🏽‍♀️

xo
The Flow Physio team
Erin&Renee&Jane&Sarah&Amanda

10/10/2025

Puppy pose is a great way to relax your pelvic floor!

Start on all fours and walk hands out to lower your chest and head to the mat. Keep your hips stacked over knees, with knees, hips and feet in the same line.

Use your inhale to fill your ribs. Widen your feet another inch and take another inhale as you imagine your SITS bones widening. Continue for 10 breaths.

10/07/2025

LOW BACK PAIN

80-90% of individuals experience it at some point in their life. It can be incredibly challenging when it doesn’t dissipate quickly.

Here’s some tips:
✔️ keep moving, but avoid painful activity
✔️check you stress and your self talk (your back isn’t weak, it’s resilient!)
✔️prioritize your sleep and diet
✔️use your core when initiating movement (your deep core is literally an internal back brace)
✔️get in to see your local PT, we can get to the root cause and get you back to movement (and assess your pelvic floor as a factor!)

10/01/2025

Pelvic floor and foot connection?

We often see this oversimplified on social media:
“Are you leaking? Check your feet!”

The answer isn’t simply to stretch your feet or roll a golf ball on your arch. Our bodies synchronize to optimize movements, with muscles co-contracting to promote stability and power.

If your foot is stiff it can affect the way you absorb load, push off your big toe, rotate your femur, and track your knee. This affects the ability of your pelvic floor to lengthen and shorten.

We use our orthopedic expertise to determine how this impacts your pelvic floor function and develop a plan specific to your body.

This is why pelvic floor PT is orthopedic PT! 🙌

09/23/2025

Back pain can affect up to 80% of adults at some point in their lives. The root cause can vary, but there are often multiple factors driving the pain.

Physical Therapists take a wholistic approach to back pain- looking at all the parts within the system. Whether it’s a disc herniation, nerve impingement, muscle spasm, lack of mobility, weakness, change in routine, onset of stress, or your pelvic floor- these things rarely exist in isolation. PTs help get to the root cause, which is often multifaceted.

Get to a PT who can address all these things and help you get better!

09/08/2025

Chronic pelvic pain can present many ways: painful menstrual cycles, hip and back pain, bloating, urinary frequency, constipation, pain with sex…

The root cause can be hormonal, vascular, nerve, or myofascial in nature, but the pelvic floor is always involved. It responds to these systems and amplifies pain and dysfunction. A well rounded approach includes addressing the root cause and the pelvic floor.

08/29/2025

An effective way to nurture your parasympathetic nervous system is spending time in nature. Add in some deep breathing, meditation and gentle exercise to help reset yourself after a busy summer. Fine tuning this skill can help with pain management and reduce muscle tension.

Enjoy your long weekend and rest!

xo
Flow Physio

08/26/2025

Female pelvic health physical therapy can be essential throughout many phases of life:

- early years of menstruation: addressing root causes of pain and flagging conditions early on (ie:pain w tampons, endometriosis, urinary frequency, constipation)

-preconception to optimize fertility and best prepare your body for pregnancy

-prenatal care to reduce pain/dysfunction and optimize for birth (birth prep should be standard!)

- postpartum to assist in healing, coordination and restoring strength and resilience (should absolutely be standard care!)

- perimenopause to address tissue quality changes associated w hormone shifts. ( this is when building muscle mass is crucial, including your sphincter! (1 in 3 women experience incontinence, not ok!)

-menopause to address all the physical changes brought on by hormonal changes! (Pelvic PT should be part of the care team!)

08/19/2025

Foot mobility:

important for mechanics and coordination up the chain… it’s one of the places we assess when patients experience hip, knee and ankle pain. It also plays an important role in pelvic floor muscle function.

Pelvic floor PT 🤝 Ortho PT

08/04/2025

Male sexual dysfunction:

Pelvic floor muscles are often at the root of sexual dysfunction. Tight and uncoordinated muscles can create difficultly maintaining an er****on and cause pain with ej*******on. Men are often told they have prostatitis without any positive bacterial infection and given antibiotics to treat the symptoms. These meds can have a temporary anti inflammatory effect, but don’t address the root cause.

Pelvic floor physical therapy should be the first intervention to address these imbalances. Recent articles in and are shedding light on this not so rare condition.

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68 Jay Street Suite #609
New York, NY
11201

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