Category Archives: Back and Neck Pain

The New Core: Restoring Pelvic Power and Relieving Pain

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Recent research has proven what we already know at our healing center; that it’s the inner most abdominals muscles that count the most when it comes to relieving pelvic pain, low back pain and establishing pelvic power. The importance of strong abdominal muscles cannot be overlooked but many times these very important muscles are trained incorrectly leading to more pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and pain.

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Foam Roller Exercises to Relieve Back and Neck Pain


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Tired of having neck and back pain? Can’t get to your therapist because of time constraints? Why not try foam rolling your pain away. The foam roller is an extraordinary tool that helps to improve flexibility, eliminates painful trigger points and muscle spasms it also helps to reduce stress and anxiety in the body and mind.

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How to Heal Successfully: An Inside Story

BLOG-LAVENDER Treating men and women who suffer from pelvic floor conditions that most people don’t even talk about gives you a glimpse into the human psyche and what it takes to heal in the face of an illness that is robbing you of your life. Researchers are now telling us that a positive attitude creates better healing and better healing outcomes. As Zig Ziglair said “ Your attitude, not our aptitude, will determine our altitude”.

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Prostate Surgery: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly



The following is an excerpt from the Fall 2013 release of Ending Male Pelvic Pain, A Man’s Manual. This great book is a must have self-help resource for all men suffering from pelvic floor conditions. This blog post will will focus on some of the issues relating to prostate screening.

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How to Treat Tailbone and Coccyx Pain



At our healing center in New York City we see women with broken coccyx after childbirth, surfers with sprained coccyx from falling on surfboards and also plain old coccyx injuries from individuals falling on their butts. I had a tailbone injury several years ago that left me with sitting pain for a year. I could find nowhere to turn and no one in the medical community could help me except to give anti-inflammatories and pain meds. At the time of the injury…

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Male Pelvic Pain – “Do men get pelvic pain too?” This is a common question and the answer is “yes”



Chronic prostatitis is the third most common urological diagnosis for men under 50 years old and the most common diagnosis in men over 50. Often times a urological evaluation reveals no bacterial cause of pain and the patient is diagnosed with Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (or abacterial chronic prostatitis).

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Eye on Pelvic Pain – 2 Quick Core Ab Exercises to Relieve Low Back Pain



Renew PT’s Eye on Pelvic Pain Series focuses in this post on easy ways to increase the strength of your abdominals, in order to take the load off your lower back. These quick abdominal core exercises can be done daily and your abs will look fabulous, and balancing out pressure on your low back and pelvic floor.

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Internal Affairs: By Isa Herrera, MSPT, CSCS – From ADVANCE Magazine for Physical Therapy & Rehab Medicine



30 percent of women and 10 percent of men in the United States suffer from various pelvic pain conditions at some time in their lives. Pelvic pain (PP) is described as pain in your pelvic region that lasts longer than six months, in the area below your navel and between your hips, sometimes including the vulvar-vaginal and penile area.


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Renew Physical Therapy Moves to New Expanded Space on Madison Avenue



We’ve recently moved to new our location at 171 Madison Avenue between 33rd and 34th Street, Suite 1600, NY, NY 10016 just one block away from our previous office. The great news is that we’ve tripled our space so we are able to provide a higher level of care for all pelvic rehab conditions, and we’ve expanded our services as well to provide you with a much more complete care experience.

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Top 10 Pelvic and Sexual Myths of 2012



Top 10 Pelvic and Sexual Myths of 2012 It seems that 2012 is a big year of change for everyone. Many times we get stuck in false beliefs and negative self-talk preventing us from making necessary changes.The following is the top 10 myths we hear from our patients at Renew PT and will help shed some light on just how many false beliefs are out there surrounding pelvic and sexual health issues.

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