Looking for Clinical Pilates on the South Coast?

What is Pilates?

Pilates is a form of exercise which is suitable for all ages and abilities. This method of exercise focuses on improving your general health whilst reducing overall injury risk. Pilates works to achieve this by the development of a strong core. Your core is a group of muscles from your chest to your hips which work together to help support your trunk and spine when doing functional movements.

Pilates works to strengthen your core by improving your overall strength, flexibility, balance and posture of your body. Another key element to this is understanding how breathwork can help facilitate correct muscle activation. By understanding correct breathing patterns you’ll learn how to activate weak muscles and also how to relax overactive muscles.

Having strong foundations, otherwise known as core stability, will strengthen and improve your control over other movement patterns such as jumping, throwing, lifting and balance. Great core stability isn’t just a goal for postpartum mums, everyone can benefit from pilates or core strengthening exercises to improve their performance or ease of everyday movement.

Pilates can be used alone or in conjunction with other treatments and injury management plans with your Physiotherapist or Exercise Physiologist. A number of our practitioners have completed further training in clinical pilates and incorporate these skills into their treatment plans.

At Medicine in Motion we collaborate with you to design a pilates programme tailored to addressing your injury and specific functional goals.

Group Pilates Classes – Matwork

We run a small group or Matwork Pilates classes out of our Corrimal Clinic on Monday and Tuesday mornings. These are floor-based exercises taught by an experienced physiotherapist who will challenge you while ensuring appropriate modifications tailored to your body.

There are a number of benefits to be gained from practicing Clinical Pilates exercises.

These include:

• Improved overall body tone and fitness
• Improved balance
• Pelvic floor retraining and strengthening
• Pre and post-natal strengthening
• Reduced musculoskeletal pain
• Increased coordination and muscular control
• Improved posture and core stability
• Increased muscular strength and flexibility
• Injury prevention
• Restoration of normal movement patterns
• Enhanced breathing control