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In honor of summer, and the fabulous Riva Preil, we will use this blog to echo Riva’s advice on summer footwear. We all know that flip-flops are, in theory, the perfect summer shoe. They are light, they are airy, and they are very inexpensive. However, flip-flops provide absolutely no support for our feet. In an …
Continue reading Pilates: Foot Review
By Denise Vidal In our last blog, we explored different aspects of our hip joint by moving our legs upward and downward in the coronal plane. In this blog, we will continue with the theme of massaging different aspects of our hip joint by adding movement in a different plane. We will begin in the …
Continue reading Pilates: Leg Swings
By Denise Vidal The relationship between the thigh bone and the hip socket is known as a ball and socket joint. A ball and socket joint is different than other joints in the body in that it allows movement in all different directions. For example, unlike the hinge joint of the knee, which moves predominantly forward and backward, …
Continue reading Pilates: Hip Abduction
By Denise Vidal In our last blog, we started to assemble our past exercises to create a fuller movement experience. We combined the scapular mobility exercise and the mechanics of the hip joint to work towards a downward dog. In today's blog, we are going to go one step closer the full downward dog movement. …
Continue reading Pilates: Imagery
By Denise Vidal So far in our Pilates blogs we have built a solid foundation of exercises by exploring fundamental joint movements in relationship to our breath and core support. In this blog, we will attempt to apply what we have learned to a more challenging movement called downward dog. Downward dog is a movement …
Continue reading Pilates: Building to Downward Dog
By Denise Vidal In the last blog, we demonstrated how core strength can be supported through the shoulder girdle's connection to the ribcage. We did this by exploring motions called protraction and retraction, that is the shoulder blades' moving toward and away from each other along the ribcage. In this blog, we are going to …
Continue reading Pilates: Scapular Mobility
This week's blog is taking a cue from Beyond Basics's move into their beautiful new space, and PT Riva Preil's recent blog on squatting. We have all heard the instruction to "lift with your legs and not with your back." However, without proper hip joint mechanics, differentiating your back from your legs may not be …
Continue reading Pilates: Footwork
Beyond Basics is an international leader in pelvic floor physical therapy located in Midtown and Downtown Manhattan. 