Benefits of Clinical Pilates

How can Clinical Pilates help me?

Including some Clinical Pilates practice into your weekly routine can help improve your posture, muscle tone, balance and joint health.

Did you know if you are working too hard in an exercise, you will only reinforce the movement patterns and postural habits that probably brought you to the class in the first place?

Over-recruitment of the abdominal muscles can completely override what should be your body’s natural internal support system. It can lead to bracing and increasing intra-abdominal pressure, which can further weaken your ‘core support’ and, very importantly, your pelvic floor muscles.

Pilates is a mind and body exercise requiring focus; therefore, it is very beneficial for relieving stress and aiding relaxation.

Stress alone contributes to a significant amount of neck and back pain, not to mention tension headaches.

Pilates can complement their training for anyone who enjoys sports and dancing on a competitive or non-competitive level. By developing whole-body strength and flexibility, Pilates can help reduce the risk of injury.

A gentle yet powerful exercise system.

Although not for everyone, Clinical Pilates is now well-recognised in the medical world. Consultants, surgeons and GPs regularly advise patients to undertake Pilates exercises. Many health professionals consider it one of the best forms of exercise for pre-surgery preparation and post-surgery recovery.

Most of us would benefit from including some Clinical Pilates exercises in our weekly routine; among some of the benefits are the following:

A healthy, flexible spine -neck – upper back – lower back
Joint health – shoulder – wrists – hips – knees – ankles – feet
Better pelvic floor function – prolapse – stress incontinence
Increased core stability and stronger stomach
Improve loss of balance
Bone strength – Osteopenia – Osteoporosis
Better posture
Injury prevention
Rehabilitation
Stress relief

Physiotherapists often use Clinical Pilates exercises in their rehabilitation or refer to those of us trained in Clinical Pilates.

Although many people talk about perfect posture, posture is or should be dynamic and individual to each and every one of us. It serves you well if your body can move and support you where it should. Standing balance

A decrease in support and/or movement and loading through your body is one of the main contributors to pain and injury.

See below for more information on specific issues and how Clinical Pilates can help you.

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Joint problems

Wear and tear – medically termed Osteoarthritis or degenerative joint disease affects many of us. It has a reputation, a process that is normal as we age. Many people are told, “It’s a sign of old age,” therefore, you need to put up with hip, wrist, neck, neck, back, and knee problems. hip joint

How many of you accept it when you see your skin becoming dry and wrinkly? You have probably also been told, “This is a sign of ageing?”

However, most of you will go to the cupboard and rub some cream in! Your skin looks and feels better; the cream did some of the job by lubricating. The act of you moving ‘stuff’ around also exercised the area and will also have had an effect.

Well, your joint that hurts, the cartilage, the surfaces at each end of a bone, making up your joint, should be wet, slippery, aligned and able to glide.

If you are looking at this now because you have a joint problem, you are not alone. Fifty-two million other adults also suffer joint or back pain, with 30% of Americans reporting joint pain in the last 30 days! So, joint pain is extremely common but can be very disabling, interfering with your ability to carry out everyday tasks.

You might have even given up what you enjoy, like sporting activities, playing with your grandchildren, getting out and walking with friends. Playing with grandchildren

It becomes a vicious circle – the less you do, the less you want to do, the less you can do. Then, when you have to do something that hurts, you move even less.

Think of that joint – you move it less, the muscles weaken, and they no longer support the space between the two bones. There is less fluid to lubricate the ends; the ends rub when you do move, and it hurts.

You now move less, and the joint gets stiffer. When you have to move to do something, the muscles are so weak you strain them, and the joint degenerates further.

Goals

Some of the goals in treating Osteoarthritis are to manage the pain, improve normal joint function, Trampoline exercises maintain average weight and achieve a healthy lifestyle. Research shows that exercise is one of the best treatments for Osteoarthritis. It will help improve muscle balance and tone, increasing the range of movement at the joint. You will feel more flexible, the joint will feel more stable, and you will be better able to manage the pain.

In many cases, pain will reduce or even disappear.

This has a knock-on effect on the whole body: mood improves, everyday tasks are easier, you move more, and you can better control weight.

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Hip Pain

The hip is one of the most common areas for people to experience pain or discomfort. Possibly from bursitis, muscle weakness or inflexibility and will impact your ability to move.

hip pain Getting out of a chair involves the ankle, knee and hip motion; try sitting down without the hip bending! Healthy hips allow us to move, walk, run, and bend.

The hip is the body part anatomically called the ‘hip joint.’ The joint is where the upper part of the femur (the thigh bone) attaches to the pelvis (acetabulum). When patients complain of hip pain, they commonly refer to the buttocks or lower back.

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Pelvic Girdle Pain

(PGP) or Pubis Symphysis Dysfunction is suffered by many women during and after pregnancy. Specific post-pregnancy exercises such as Pilates can help. The pelvic girdle

Hip Replacements and Osteoporosis

Fractures from falls caused by osteoporosis and surgery due to joint and muscle degeneration can take 4 weeks to 6 months to recover. Continued therapy is needed in many cases to regain full strength and movement.

Stress is a condition or feeling experienced when a person perceives that “demands exceed the personal and social resources that the individual is able to mobilise” (Richard R Lazarus)

About a third of those over 65 suffer a fall each year. Balance, muscle strength and flexibility decline with age, and much of this loss can be regained if we move more.

Our bones lose some density as we age, but it is a case of using or losing it. Three million people in the UK alone are affected by Osteoporosis.

Statistics

Australia: 2.2 million Australians are affected by osteoporosis. About 11% of men and 27% of women aged 60 years or more are osteoporotic, and 42% of men and 51% of women are osteopenic (162). Australia: The lifetime risk of osteoporotic fracture after 50 years of age: 42% in women, 27% in men

Hips, backs and wrists are the most common sites with both women and men affected.

At Bodywork Evolution, we understand the need for not just exercises specific to the condition. We also recognise the need for positioning to load the bones for optimal results.

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Neck Problems

Neck pain can be a real “pain in the neck”.

The cervical spine comprises of bones, nerves, vessels and muscles. This is the most mobile spine area but also needs the strength and stability to support our heads.

A stiff neck might stop us from turning our heads. A pain in the neck might radiate down the shoulders and arms or into the head.

With our growing love of tablet devices, texting on the go and working from the sofa. Unsurprisingly, shoulder pain, tension headaches, wrist problems and frozen shoulder are now common problems.

Simple changes at home, like the pillow you use, might make a difference, and ensuring your office work area is set up for you can help.

In a clinical pilates class, we will look at improving upper body posture Spine and posture and strengthening the deep neck flexors (DNF) with exercise. This will help with the dynamic stability needed to support your neck and move easily, so everyday tasks take less effort.