BSc(Hons),
Cert HE (Ex Sci & PT), MSST, iMFT, Dip SMRT, MISRM
Rehabilitation
and Sports Performance Pilates
Pilates,
an exercise regimen first developed for rehabilitation
in the early 20th century, has become
a powerful rehab tool with significant benefits
for patients as well as for Sports Performance enhancement.
Its
focus on movement and breathing brings new and effective treatment
methods. It’s also extremely versatile – the extensive
exercise repertoire
is modified to fit the needs of each patient.
The
Pilates principle of core stabilisation addresses posture,
muscle
performance and motor control – the same concepts that
form the basis of most orthopaedic rehabilitation and therapy.
As well as assisting with rehabilitation following injury or
surgery, Pilates is being used successfully to treat
many common conditions including:
Chronic
neck and back pain
Sciatica
Shoulder
impingement/tendonitis
Hip
bursitis
Ankle
injuries
Total
knee/hip replacements
Multiple
Sclerosis
Parkinson's
Disease
Fibromyalgia
Scoliosis
as
well as to elite, professional and amateur sportspeople keen to
achieve maximum performance in their discipline.
I
am also delighted to offer the Pink
Ribbon Program promoting a healthy lifestyle and positive body image to all breast cancer survivors and breast surgery patients through the application of specially devised clinical Pilates techniques.
Rehabilitation
Pilates is offered in my specially built Pilates
studio, where patients experience rehabilitation and performance
therapies based
on clinical Pilates exercises both using the Clinical Reformer
Rehabilitation Pilates apparatus (shown in the photos) and mat-based disciplines.
If
you have injured yourself and are considering Pilates, it is
important to ensure that your instructor has clinical physical
therapy experience1. There is a great difference
between Pilates as a way of exercising - how most people have
encountered the technique - and applying it as form of
therapy.
The
principles of Pilates are ideal for rehabilitation, but if they
aren‘t used in conjunction with proper clinical diagnosis and
therapy techniques it could do more harm than good. Conversely,
physical therapy techniques may prove inappropriate on their own
as the exercises may be too hard for the patient or may cause
too much pain, or -very often- the patient's body
awareness is not adequate to enable them to achieve maximum
results - something that Pilates teaches you to do. That
is why, as a fully qualified sports therapist working with
Pilates, I create combinations of Pilates disciplines with appropriate modalities and techniques
of sports therapy to provide the most effective combination for
each individual patient.
To
make an enquiry or appointment for Rehabilitation or Sports
Performance Pilates in my purpose built facility (shown left) click on Contact
To
see what a session in my studio is like click one of the videos below:
, as a fully qualified sports therapist working with
Pilates, I create combinations of Pilates disciplines with appropriate modalities and techniques
of sports therapy to provide the most effective combination for
each individual patient.