Specialized Pelvic Floor & Oncology Physical Therapy serving:
St. Paul - Minneapolis Twin Cities, & Woodbury
Improving Forward Head Posture with Head Lifts
Do you have a forward head posture? Most people do to some degree. Did you know we can improve it?
How to Strengthen Your Foot Arches
Struggle with flat feet? Did you know you can actually improve your arch support by exercising your feet?
Feet have muscles like any other part of our body, we can improve their function by strengthening them.
Having good strong arches is critical to good alignment for knees and hips. This will have positive changes on everything to your gait to your squats!
Tight Hip Flexors?? Try This
Do you spend most of your day seated? Or maybe your hip flexors are always firing?
You likely need to work on stretching them out. This stretch is another great example of eccentrically loading a muscle to help "set" it in a more lengthened position.
This is much more affective than a passive stretch.
Struggle to Activate Your Glutes During a Squat? Try This!
Not sure if you are executing squats correctly? Or maybe you always feel your quads when you do squats?
Improve Posture with this Chest Stretch
Are you someone with forward posture? Maybe you sit at a desk all day or are a new mom breastfeeding so it puts you in that forward position.
Increase Quad Strength and Flexibility with This Move
One of the best ways to work on flexibility is to eccentrically load muscles.
Progressing Core Work with Quad Hover
Looking for a good way to engage core that’s not on your back? Check out this quad hover.
Chest Opener with Foam Roller
Are you sitting at a desk all day? Breastfeeding? Bending over to pick your kids up all the time? Chances are you have a tight chest which is pulling your shoulders forward.
This video will give you a simple and relaxing way to open up that chest and improve your posture
Improve your Tennis and Golf Swing with this Midback Exercise
Do you struggle with midback rotation? Maybe you are a golfer or tennis player.. This series can help you improve your rotation which will give you more power in your swing, not to mention just make your back feel better!
How Skin Rolling Can Improve Breathing and Mobility
Your rib cage angle and found that it’s quite narrow? There’s a good chance you are an ab Gripper. This very well could mean that your myofascial is very tight and needs to be released so the ribs are able to be positioned in a more neutral position.
Skin rolling and cupping is a great way to release the fascia to allow more movement and mobility in the ribs.
I think of Tight fascia like a tight shirt it’s going to affect your mobility.
Struggle to Activate Your Glutes? Try This!
This simple exercise will help you maintain neutral spine while firing you glutes. Starting with simple exercises is best to ensure you can get muscles working as they should before we add more complex movements.
Struggle with neck and trap tension? You may need help moblizing your shoulders. AKA scapula.
This simple exercise is great to help connect with the muscles that support the shoulders and help keep them down. This is a great prep for push up or plank work!