Pilates Rehabilitation for Groin Injuries

Groin injuries are very common in athletes, and those who play any kind of recreational sports that requires abrupt stopping, cutting and twisting are at risk for a groin injury, and have probably at one time or another experience a sharp pain or pull in the lower abdomen and throughout the pelvic girdle. There are [...]

ACL Physical Therapy

Injuries to the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament), is the most common found in the realm of sports.  It has been estimated that somewhere between 100,000 and 200,000 individuals have experienced some sort of damage to their ACL. The ACL has a normal range of flexibility, which unfortunately can be stretched beyond its ability. When this [...]

Back Pain Physical Therapy

There are two different forms of physical therapy that can be used to aide in the recovery of back pain. Passive Physical Therapy is one, which includes modalities that are done to the client by a therapist and Active Physical Therapy is when a client actively pursues relief through patterns of exercises. Passive therapy includes [...]

Pilates Rehabilitation for Football Injuries

Pilates Rehabilitation for Football Injuries When searching for a list of potential injuries that playing football potentially holds, you don’t have to look far. From the more minor of injuries like muscle cramps, sprains, hamstring pulls and whip lash, to the more intermediate of injuries like orthopedic, tendon, and joint issues to the more advance [...]

Pilates Rehabilitation for Golfer’s Elbow

Pilates Rehabilitation for Golfer’s Elbow With sports like golf, repetitive motion over time can cause trauma to the surrounding joints in the elbow, not unlike “tennis elbow”, called Medial Epicondylitis- “golfer’s elbow”. Small tears in the tendon that surrounds the elbow protecting and supplying the ability for the swinging motion is compromised, and inflammation and [...]

Pilates Physical Therapy

Pilates Physical Therapy Pilates-Based Physical Therapy finds its methodology to be in the same family of framework as physical therapy, but different psychological approaches sets them apart. Pilates based physical therapy sees whole-body wellness as the cure to injury as well as the key to functional living, for a better quality of life long after [...]

Physical Therapy

Physical Therapy Around the same time that Joseph Pilates was beginning his methodology of whole-body wellness, a group of physical therapists were forming an organization. In the year 1921, The American Women’s Physical Therapeutic Association was formed. The association was led by President Mary McMillan, and included 274 members. It wasn’t until the end of [...]

Pilates Based Rehabilitation 2

Pilates Based Rehabilitation 2 Pilates based-rehab is excellent for those that suffer from, but is not limited to post-surgery pain, muscle strain, sciatica, impingements, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, hip or knee replacement surgery, chronic neck and back pain, performance or sports injuries, shoulder girdle pain, hip and knee pain or strain, as well as foot and ankle [...]

Pilates Based Rehabilitation

Pilates Based Rehabilitation Injuries within the body not only plague everyday life with constant pain, but injuries also prevent a person from feeling whole, or completely engaged in society. Our physical health is one of the most important things we have, and yet it is so easily taken for granted. Without proper care, our health [...]

Pilates Rehabilitation for Patellar Tendonitis

Pilates Rehabilitation for Patellar Tendonitis Patellar tendonitis is also called “jumper’s knee”, and given the nature of the term it is easy to see how this injury can develop. Especially common in basketball and volleyball players, soccer players and runners can also be at a risk for developing patellar tendonitis. Blunt force, overuse, or sudden [...]

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