How can Clinical Pilates help me?

Clinical Pilates targets the core stabilizers and focuses on improving muscle control and endurance to facilitate more efficient use of the body and reduce overstrain of your spine.

Clinical Pilates uses a combination of spring-loaded equipment, ball, and floor exercises. Programs are individually prescribed and monitored by your physiotherapist to ensure you achieve the best results.

The Clinical Pilates ‘Reformer’ forms a critical part of your program. These pieces of equipment allow your physiotherapist to very specifically and appropriately recruit trunk musculature which otherwise is very difficult to do. Most importantly it allows you to do this safely and in a graded manner avoiding the unfortunate flare ups that can occur with more generic exercise.

What conditions will benefit from Clinical Pilates?

Clinical Pilates is extremely effective in treating spinal, shoulder and hip problems. For example – clinical research has shown that poor strength and endurance of the spinal and abdominal stabilising muscles is associated with low back pain. Similarly lack of strength and flexibility in the upper spine and shoulders is associated with neck and shoulder problems. Thankfully the specific retraining of these muscles that occurs with Clinical Pilates programs successfully restores strength and flexibility, reducing pain and the risk of injury recurrence.

Our physiotherapists have a comprehensive understanding of the biomechanics and pathology of spinal, shoulder and hip pain. Using the latest research, they can prescribe for you a highly personalized Clinical Pilates program to significantly reduce and manage your symptoms.

Clinical Pilates will deliver great benefit for many conditions, including:

• Low back pain
• Lumbar disc and facet pathology, arthritis or instability
• Neck pain
• Headaches
• Shoulder and hip problems
• Pre and post-pregnancy pain
• Sports injuries