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Bending without breaking: Hypermobility disorders and physical therapy

Bending without breaking: Hypermobility disorders and physical therapy

Unnati Topiwala2023-12-21T14:24:37-05:00July 19th, 2021|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Physical Therapists News, Pilates Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Gyrotonic, Gyrotonic Fit, Atlanta, Injury Prevention, health, Clinical medicine, Hypermobility, Syndromes, Pelvic floor dysfunction, Musculoskeletal system, Organ systems, Contortion, EDS, Ehlers–Danlos syndromes, Joint dislocation, Skeletal disorders, Rheumatology, Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, Ligamentous laxity, Ami Kirollos, Ehlers-Danlos Society, HSD, BeightonScore, Range of motion, Genu recurvatum|

“Hypermobility,” is a term we like to throw around in all types of ways. For many people, it means casually bringing your leg over your head in yoga class or twisting your body into a pretzel-like Cirque Du Soleil performer, but for others, it means chronic pain, frequent injuries, and symptoms that many medical providers will shrug off as “being bendy.” There is a fine line when “flexible” can be more than just limber joints and muscles and may be [...]

Core Goals: Pilates 101

Core Goals: Pilates 101

Melissa Baudo2023-12-21T14:39:56-05:00February 24th, 2019|Categories: Pilates Articles|Tags: Pilates, Injury Prevention, wellness, Recreation, Human behavior, Physical exercise, BASI Pilates, Tangolates, Joseph Pilates, Barre, Cross-training, Mind–body interventions, fitness, Physical culture, Bodyweight exercises, Romana Kryzanowska|

Core Goals: Pilates Are you looking for a strong core, enhanced mental awareness and whole body health? Well read on to learn more about how Pilates can help achieve your goals. What is Pilates? A mind-body exercise created by Joseph Pilates that provides daily conditioning, promotes whole body health and develops mental awareness to optimize your personal performance. “Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind and spirit. Through Pilates, you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then [...]

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Oh Baby! What Happened To My Body?

Alex Wilkins2023-12-21T14:44:02-05:00April 4th, 2018|Categories: Physical Therapists News, Trigger Point Dry Needling Articles, Women's Health Articles, Pilates Articles, Dry Needling Articles, Wellness Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Melissa Baudo, health, pain, massage, baby, body, dry needling, back pain, Medicine, Nociception, Soft tissue disorders, Myofascial trigger point, Clinical medicine, Manual therapy, Myofascial pain syndrome, Diastasis recti, Low back pain, Pseudoscience, Medical specialties|

By Melissa Baudo Marchetti Calling all moms! Have you recently had a baby, or still struggling with post baby pain and weakness? Pregnancy places high demand on the musculoskeletal system and can be very traumatic for some women leaving them with myofascial pain, internal pelvic pain, nerve pain, diastasis recti (a gapping in the abdominal muscles), weakness in the core from a C-section, neck and shoulder pain from holding your newborn baby, and much more. In December, after a five-year [...]

10 Minute Pilates Warm Up

10 Minute Pilates Warm Up

Alex Wilkins2018-11-19T19:12:55-05:00October 25th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, General Information, Pilates Articles, Prevention Articles|Tags: Pilates, Tennis, health, athlete, warm-up, running, sports, exercise, Medicine, Human behavior, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Deadlift, Warming up, Muscular system, Soft tissue, Gluteus maximus, Asanas, Waking|

Looking for a Great 10 Minute Pilates Warm-up? Do you find yourself waking up early, a little stiff from your night’s sleep, but wanting to get that early morning run or walk in before work? Or maybe you prefer after work, but find yourself feeling tight after driving in rush-hour traffic. Before you hit the road, you think about warming up all of the important muscle groups used in running and walking, but want something quick, yet effective! Here are [...]

Moving Better // Redcord x Pilates

Moving Better // Redcord x Pilates

Alex Wilkins2023-12-14T03:23:00-05:00October 4th, 2017|Categories: Physical Therapy Articles, Redcord Neurac Articles, Pilates Articles|Tags: Physical Therapy, Pilates, health, redcord, active, Medical Subject Headings, Squat, Powerlifting, Physical exercise, Muscular system, Soft tissue, Gluteus maximus, Hip muscles, Gluteal muscles, Muscles of the hip, Sumo deadlift, Musculoskeletal system, Joseph Pilates, Physical culture, Bodyweight exercises|

How do we Integrate Pilates and Redcord to Help Patients Move Better? Two exercise modalities offered at One on One are Redcord and Pilates. Both can be enormously beneficial to patients in rehabilitation, transitioning to fitness, and in maintaining strength and preventing injury or re-injury. Not only do these two modalities enhance rehabilitation and fitness alone, but they also compliment each other. When we get injured, compensatory patterns of movement and muscle engagement take hold. Often those patterns persist for [...]