Clinical Pilates
Pilates-Based Rehab blends Pilates principles with physical therapy to restore strength, stability, and flexibility. Focusing on the core and supporting muscles, one-on-one sessions use mat and specialized equipment exercises plus corrective movement training to improve posture, balance, and body awareness. Taught one-on-one by a licensed physical therapist, this approach supports recovery, prevents injury, and promotes long-term wellness.
Benefits:
Improved posture
Increased core and overall strength
Better flexibility and range of motion
Enhanced joint health
Reduced risk of future injury
Reduced Stress
Process: Begin by scheduling a Physical Therapy Evaluation prior to booking Pilates-Based Rehab follow-up sessions. Sessions are provided by Hilary, a certified Pilates practitioner specializing in Pilates-based rehabilitation.
The Pilates method of exercise offers a total body workout program that enhances the quality of life through improving strength, flexibility, control, breath, coordination, and body awareness.
Posture, core strength, and balance will remarkably improve, resulting in strong and balanced muscles.
What happens in a clinical pilates session?
We will assess your posture and look at the way you use your body in certain activities paying particular attention to movements that cause your pain. This, along with our physical therapy assessment, will help us identify the causes of your symptoms or pain. It is now well understood that pain switches muscles off (inhibits), these are often deep stabilizing muscles that help support the spine or joints. Imbalances in our body can also be caused by repetitively moving in a certain way at work or in sport. Often we are unaware of this happening, but it can be the reason you get hurt or that your pain won't go away.
We will start you on an individualized exercise program that is designed to correct these faults and retrain or strengthen muscles that may have become weak or do not activate correctly.
Sessions will be on the Pilates equipment, including Reformer, and we will ensure you are performing all of the exercises correctly. You will receive an online exercise program to continue at home to reinforce the new movement patterns or postural corrections that you have learned.
Clinical pilates can help with: Back pain, repetitive strain injuries, pre and post-surgery, sports injuries, shoulder problems, sports performance enhancement, knee and hip problems, if you want a low-impact form of exercise