Pilates: Helping You to Heal
Pilates' Role in Rehabilitation & Physical Therapy
Pilates practitioners use their own bodies as weights in training, to build
strength, and flexibility this is targeted without a focus on high-powered
cardiovascular exercise. Today, Pilates is used in the rehabilitation process by
many physical therapists. Pilates is an old approach to movement re-education
that is becoming popular in the field of fitness and rehabilitation. The Pilates
environment can be used as an assistive environment that optimizes the
acquisition of movement with a reduction of destructive forces and can be used to
progress individuals through more challenging movements that represent their
day-to-day activities. Research and theories in motor learning, biomechanics,
and musculoskeletal physiology help support the phenomena experienced by many
Pilates-based practitioners; however, the Pilates-based approach needs to be
subjected to the rigors of research to better evaluate its efficacy in the field
of rehabilitation.
In recent years, many Pilates students have seen important parallels with the
Alexander Technique, and the discoveries of F. Matthias Alexander. It has been
used to train dancers in flexibility and physical strength. The first official
Pilates Studio was opened in New York in 1926. In recent years it has become a
popular fitness modality, with many stars attributing their successful weight
loss and increased muscle tone to Pilates.
Preserving Pilates Principles
As the technique has grown in popularity through the 1990s, many fitness
trainers have begun teaching Pilates without any form of certification or formal
training in the technique. Obtaining certification can be confusing, as there are
numerous organizations who offer certification in exchange for a fee or at the
end of a course they offer. Some practitioners believe the explosion in popularity
has thus led to a dilution of the technique as taught by Joseph Pilates and fear
it can causes poor results or injury.
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Adapted from: Pilates
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilates)
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