Physiotherapy Based Pilates Lessons
Physiotherapy and Pilates go hand in hand and are a match made in heaven. The two are highly similar and you will find that combining them makes a lot of logical sense and can help you to develop a stronger back and mid section, more definition in your legs, buttocks and other areas and less pain in your daily life. Here we will look at how physiotherapy and Pilates work in order to improve your health and in particular your spine.
One of the most common complaints that sends people either to Pilates or to physiotherapy is a bad back – and in particular pain in the sciatic nerve. The sciatic nerve is the nerve that runs all down your back and which carries signals to and from the legs. Often the bottom half of this sciatic nerve can unfortunately become trapped or get lodged against bone or muscle here and this then can cause severe pain in the back of course, but also all down the legs, hips, buttocks and anything else that has signals going through there.
A physiotherapist will attempt to address such a problem with a series of exercises and manipulations that are designed to free the nerve and to prevent this from occurring again. This would involve such practices as getting you to lie on your back flat but with your legs up against a chair, or getting you to go onto all fours and then to sag and then arch your spine. Both of these exercises will help your back to straighten out and will create the space necessarily to release any trapped nerves.
Pilates works in a similar way and can help such pain and other conditions in many ways. The basic idea behind Pilates is to help the body to work better as a whole by teaching you to use your stabilizing core muscles more, to practice better posture and to breath at the right time along with your movements. This then means that your body is in unison and you are unlikely to put anything out of alignment. This in turn means that you move more efficiently and are far less likely to trap a nerve or create a similar problem.
At the same time Pilates will teach you how to work with your spine in such a way that you may even dislodge the nerve from practice and use it to treat acute pain. For instance in Pilates you are often made to do sit ups but not in the conventional way that you might do this in the gym. Instead you sit on the floor and then ‘roll’ your spine up and down gently. You are taught to breath at the right time and to engage your core muscles and you will develop the kind of stability that can really aid a bad back. At the same time though you are told to focus on each of the joints in the spine as they move in unison rather than letting any of them compress at the wrong time.
There is a big difference in professional physiotherapy pilates and a regular pilates class. For rehabilitation for example a pilates Melbourne studio.
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