Pilates is essential for complete recovery from any injury or musculoskeletal problem.
There are only three problems with every injury that need to be addressed. Inflammation, flexibility and co-ordination and strength. OK, that’s four but co-ordination and strength go hand in hand.
Many treatment remedies only address one of these three components. For example; a cortisone injection will only address inflammation. It will not alter flexibility or co-ordination and strength which are often the underlying causes of the inflammatory process.
Pilates is essential as it addresses all three problems. Inflamed patients can be worked in a weightless environment and progressed accordingly. Pilates targets flexibility, co-ordination and strength and can be used to target any problem area of the body.
Clinical Pilates treatment given by a physiotherapist can be individualised to the patient and their specific needs. Clinical Pilates is superior to generic classes of Yoga and Tai Chi for this very reason. The patient works to their needs, not the requirements of a class that goes through a thousand year old succession of movements.
Physiotherapists are highly skilled clinicians that structure Pilates programmes that target individual needs. Physiotherapists cater to athletes who require specific performance enhancing work, growing children who require improved flexibility and co-ordination, post surgical patients, chronic back pain patients and people who just feel plain worn out.
The top ten benefits of combining Pilates with Physiotherapy are:
- Isolating the correct muscles and movements for your needs far better than conventional exercise is able to do
- Activating your body in a safe way to progress and achieve your goals
- Integrating your Pilates into your normal activities to improve performance and decrease injury risk
- Working with a University qualified clinician who knows how to target your clinical needs and progress you safely and efficiently
- Pilates has a wide scope of exercise for people of all abilities (core stability, flexibility, agility, strength work and cardio)
- Pilates assists return to activity after injury or surgery earlier than conventional exercise
- Pilates exercises can be used as self treatment for specific conditions
- Pilates tones, trims and tightens bits you did not even know existed. It works you from the inside out
- If it’s good enough for the professional athletes then it’s good enough for you
- Pilates can take you from zero to hero in the blink of an eye
Pilates empowers the body to truly take back control and recover from injury.
Bill McTigue
mhealth Physiotherapist
Member Australian Sports Physiotherapy Association
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