The principles of Clinical Pilates for Recovery focus on strengthening the core, improving posture and movement patterns, whilst enhancing body awareness. This helps reduce pain and injury risk in those with musculoskeletal conditions. Clinical Pilates is more specific than traditional group pilates classes, as the program is guided 1 on 1 by your trained healthcare provider and tailored to your individual injuries or condition.
A detailed physiotherapy assessment is conducted before commencing your Clinical Pilates program. This is critical to understanding your individual needs and capabilities, finding any specific injuries or issues, and ensuring your program has the right balance of strength, flexibility, mobility, movement strategies and more. The assessment may include looking at how you move, assessing your range of motion, and testing muscle strength and proprioception (balance/sensation).
Clinical Pilates for Recovery: Rebuild Your Body with Expert Guidance
During your sessions your physiotherapist will help guide you through the exercises with hands on cueing to support your movements. They will monitor your progress and adapt the program to meet your goals, ensuring you are making the most of your time in the studio and moving forward towards recovery.
Clinical Pilates is an effective way to manage injuries and reduce the risk of re-injury. It has a proven track record of improving pain, restoring muscle strength and joint mobility. It can also improve balance, stability and co-ordination. Pilates is designed to strengthen all of the major muscle groups which can help reduce reliance on pain medications for daily activities. It can also help to improve the pelvic floor, which is important after and during pregnancy as well as preventing incontinence problems later in life.