The Pilates Rx — Local services in Somerville

Beautiful space with super experienced, professional, and compassionate staff.

I went for weekly sessions in the For The Moms program with Christina Seng and Dr. Allie Duffy during pregnancy starting in 2nd trimester (and planning to continue through 4th trimester). The program is a powerful blend of 1:1 prenatal care, physical therapy, fitness, and education.

Each session has been custom tailored to how I’m feeling and what stage of pregnancy I’m in. When I first started the program, I was feeling lots of pain in my pelvic floor, lower back, and pubic symphysis that made it hard to go on walks or enjoy life. Christina was able to diagnose the specific source of the pain in my pelvic floor muscles right away, which were creating instability that extended to my lower back, and we worked on physical therapy and breathing exercises that made me feel significantly better and be able to enjoy a summer's worth of long city walks, swims, and other physical activity.

Once I was pain-free, we focused on fitness through a wide variety of pregnancy-appropriate pilates exercises on and off the reformer that stretched and relaxed my body and felt heavenly!

Christina also led helpful sessions on push prep, postural prep for breastfeeding, and more, which I really appreciate because while I enjoy learning from Youtube/books, it’s another thing entirely to go through embodied exercises with an experienced educator.

In addition to the professionalism of the team, the physical space is welcoming, airy, and bright. There’s delicious kombucha and cold brew on tap and the vibes are immaculate.

I would highly recommend the For The Moms program for those looking to relieve the pains and discomforts of pregnancy, or those who simply want to stay active and moving during pregnancy. I’d be excited to check out the other Rx programs in the...

Thank You Allie is the only way for me to appropriately start this review. I have suffered for 45 years from lower back pain. I finally had surgery about 5 years ago which failed so miserably that I had to have 2 subsequent surgeries, all within a 20 day period. I have been to at least 5 other physical therapists since then and followed all of their routines to no avail.

When Covid19 hit I started exercising with light weights and taking fairly long bike rides to stay in shape. My back began to show signs of trouble after a few months and that is when I found Allie searching online.

Working with Allie has been a life changing event for me. She is incredibly in tune with what is going on with my body and what routines I need to follow in order to continue my improvement. She has been generous, by working to move me away from having to continue to see her in person. She has encouraged me to do this work on my own and gave me plenty to work on and toward. I know I will be joining some of her classes and subscribing to her library of workout videos in the weeks and months to come.

I am certain that I will be going back to her on occasion because our bodies continue to change as we work to strengthen and stretch. Without question, her guidance and knowledge is superlative. If you are looking for someone who can and will really help you, who is honest and gifted look no further.

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The For the Moms program has been amazing!! I would recommend this to anyone who is pregnant or newly postpartum. I first went to The Pilates Rx after I had my first child. They helped me recover from a challenging delivery. I went back again when I had my second child, but this time I did the program leading up to delivery as well as postpartum. The FTM program is personalized, so we focused on the specific things that were bothering me. In the 3rd trimester I had lower back pain, and Jess was able to help resolve it completely, and helped fix my posture that was causing the pain in the first place. I had carpal tunnel in my hands and bad swelling in my feet with my first pregnancy but didn’t have either of those in the second pregnancy, and think FTM played a big role in that. I worked with Christina to do a push prep and went into my second delivery feeling so much more prepared than I had been with the first. My delivery went much smoother with my second and he was even a much bigger baby than my first. Postpartum, I almost immediately felt better from a recovery standpoint. No lingering back pain, no pelvic pain, really no pain other than the normal healing after birth. I’ve been working with Christina and after just a few sessions, I’m back walk/running and on a path to get back to normal workouts in a safe way. This is truly a great program and I am so happy I found...