His and Her Health

Amy Stein received her BA from Washington University in St Louis, MO and her Masters in Physical Therapy from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. She is currently working on her doctorate from Nova Southeastern University. After graduate school Amy moved to NYC, where she has been working with pelvic floor dysfunction, women's health and orthopedic manual therapy since 1999. She is the author of “Heal Pelvic Pain”, published by McGraw-Hill in the summer of 2008. 

She also co-authored a chapter, “Pelvic Floor Dysfunction and Physical therapy” for a medical textbook, “Female Sexual Pain Disorders:  Evaluation and Management”, published by Blackwell Publishing in the winter of 2009.  Amy received her BCIA-PMDB (biofeedback for Pelvic Muscle Dysfunction) in December 2006.

She was featured on ABC’s 20/20 (Aug ’09) on Female Sexual Dysfunction and has various publications including in Fit Yoga, All You Magazine, Explore:  The Journal of  Science and Healing, the New York Daily News, ABC’s Healthology and ourgyn.com, and lectures nationwide on physical therapy and pelvic floor dysfunction. Some of the publications include, “Ask the Experts:  What is Pelvic Floor Dysfunction?”, “Pelvic Floor Dysfunction can cause Vulvar, Vaginal, Pelvic Pain”, “Pregnant & achy? Had a baby & still hurting?”  “Easing the Pain Below”, “Explaining Pelvic Pain”, and “Physical Therapy and the Treatment of Endometriosis”.

Amy was elected to the Board of the International Pelvic Pain Society in 2007, and she continues to be a member of many associations and organizations (American Physical Therapy Association’s women's health section, Interstitial Cystitis Association, The Prostatitis Foundation, Endometriosis Association, National Vulvodynia Association, Interstitial Cystitis Network, International Urogynecology Association and The Women's Sexual Health Foundation). 

In 2003, Amy opened her own practice, Beyond Basics Physical Therapy in New York City, which has a primary focus on Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Pelvic Pain and manual therapy in men, women and children.  In the office there are 6 physical therapists, a yoga instructor and an acupuncturist of whom all specialize in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction and women’s health.

The website: www.beyondbasicsphysicaltherapy.com  explains more about my practice.