As Pilates can be easily modified to meet individual needs, Pilates is the perfect exercise regime to add to your lifestyle if you require pain management. Whether you have lower back pain, chronic headaches or migraines, are recovering from surgery, or have another medical condition, rehabilitation Pilates can aid you in your recovery.
Here are the top five ways that Pilates helps with pain relief:
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Pilates Strengthens Your Core – Pilates trains all of your core muscles – not just the “6-pack abs” – to stabilize your core and spine. Plus, while Pilates helps to strengthen smaller stabilizing muscles, there is no impact to your spine (particularly important for those suffering from back pain).
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Pilates Increases Flexibility – One of the most important factors of Pilates is that you can do it at your own pace. So whether you think you’re flexible to begin with or not, Pilates will slowly and surely assist you in increasing your overall flexibility as it also increases your overall body awareness.
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Pilates Teaches Proper Breathing Techniques – With a strong focus on proper breathing techniques during exercise, Pilates is both mentally and physically relaxing by encouraging stress release. Simply getting more oxygen into your body through deep breathing can assist in your recovery and long-term rehab.
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Pilates Improves Your Posture – Pilates teaches your body how to sit down properly while maintaining the integrity of the spine, a crucial element for everyone, but particularly those who work at a desk for long hours. With no impact to your ankles, knees, or hips, Pilates allows for a wider range of exercise rather than a sport like running, which can cause injuries to your lower joints and compression of the spine.
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Pilates Promotes Long-term Rehab – Rehab Pilates methods focus on retraining your muscles for long-term pain-free movement. Rehab Pilates is meant to train you on how to rehabilitate properly so you heal after surgeries, slowly build up strength after tendon or ligament tears, and stabilize the joints after a hip replacement, knee tear, or other.
At Firehaus Pilates Studio, we use rehab Pilates to work with many medical conditions. No matter your age, movement restrictions, or health conditions, using rehabilitation pilates, we will develop an individual pilates reformer plan to aid you in your recovery. Talk to your doctor today to find out if Pilates physical therapy would be a beneficial addition to your current treatment plan!