clinical pilates
Gently does it: Pilates can be another tool in a rehabilitation professional’s toolbox
everyone. No longer is it just for the wealthy, dancers or elite sporting clubs. It is now delivered in all aspects of life, from the NHS to private practice, from gyms to elite sport – such as the English National Ballet, premiership football clubs up and down the country and even Cirque De Soleil. “The APPI method can link in with gymnasiums as a great service for all.”
Nuffield Health Nuffield has 30 hospitals nationwide, as well as 50 fitness and wellbeing centres, and aims to have physiotherapists working out of all those sites. Bethan Gwynn is a physiotherapist
based in Warwick, who splits her time between the local Nuffi eld Fitness and Wellbeing health club and its hospital – Nuffi eld Health Warwickshire Hospital. She trained in clinical pilates through the APPI in London four years ago. “Pilates ties in well with the current
NICE [National Institute of Clinical Excellence] clinical guidelines for back pain,” she says. “The guidelines state that both manual therapy and structured exercise programmes, along with acupuncture, are benefi cial – and pilates fi ts in to the category of structured exercise very nicely. Using it means
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Pilates ties in well with the current NICE clinical guidelines for back pain, says Bethan Gwynn, physiotherapist at Nuffield Health
that we, as physios, are able to offer a combination of both forms of treatment – I deliver pilates exercises as part of my physio or rehab; I don’t separate them.” In the health club, the clinical pilates
sessions are operated separately from the gym programme – the clinic sits in the centre’s medical wing, rather than in the fi tness centre, among professionals including nutritionists, GPs and physiologists, and clients can self-refer or be referred by a medical practitioner. Gwynn fi nds a gym setting has
benefi ts over the hospital environment for her clients: “In the gym you get the overwhelming feeling of being healthy and well, whereas in the hospital there can be a sense of being unwell. The gym is good psychologically for our patients.” A benefi t to the gym of having
practitioners like Gwynn on-site is free advice. “We have more understanding of the background medical issues gym members may have – back pain,
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chronic conditions or post-surgery considerations,” she explains. “We know how to modify exercises for them and we work closely with the gym instructors on anything they need help with.”
Bodies Under Construction Bodies Under Construction Physiotherapy and Pilates is located within The Riverside Health & Racquets Club in Chiswick, London. The Balanced Body-equipped pilates studio is upstairs, within the gym, and the physiotherapy treatment rooms are downstairs. However, the two clinics operate as one multi-disciplinary service. All the physiotherapists are clinical pilates practitioners, some trained with Polestar, the other main training body, and some with the APPI. And while the pilates studio offers standard fitness pilates classes, the physiotherapists also use it for their one-to-one and group clinical pilates sessions.
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