Clinical Pilates for all ages

Clinical Pilates delivered by your Exercise physiologist or physiotherapist aims to promote good movement habits and build a strong foundation that allows your body to perform at its highest capacity day to day whilst also reduce the incidence of pain and injury.

What is Clinical Pilates?

Clinical Pilates is a form of physical exercise that focuses on posture, core stability, balance, control, flexibility and breathing. Clinical Pilates is a program of safe and effective exercises which meet your specific individual needs, tailored by your exercise physiologist or physiotherapist.

Clinical Pilates differs from regular Pilates due to its therapeutic application and personalised approach. Unlike generic Pilates classes, Clinical Pilates sessions are overseen by qualified physiotherapists or exercise physiologists who assess and address each patient's unique musculoskeletal needs.

By integrating clinical expertise with Pilates principles, tailored exercises aim to rehabilitate injuries, improve postural alignment, enhance core stability, and optimise overall movement mechanics. This individualised attention ensures safe and effective progression, making Clinical Pilates an integral part of our comprehensive rehabilitation and movement programs.

What are some of the benefits of Clinical Pilates?

The potential benefits of Clinical Pilates for each individual depend on many factors, including your individual physiological profile, any existing injuries or conditions and rehabilitation goals. We cover some of the possible benefits below.

Overall Posture

Clinical Pilates strengthens and mobilises the primary stabiliser and mover muscles in the hips, shoulders, and ankles which can correct overall posture and movement patterns. Posture plays a significant role in your overall health, strength, flexibility, balance and injury resistance.

Core Strength and Stability

Clinical Pilates improves your core strength and stability by focusing on building strength in our deeper layer of abdominal muscles, our deep supportive spinal muscles, and our hip and pelvic musculature.

Pelvic Floor

Clinical Pilates improves the control of our pelvic floor, for both men and women. A weak or tight pelvic floor can lead to pre-natal and post-natal issues, incontinence, hernias, coccyx pain and musculoskeletal imbalance which can cause issues with functional movements like difficulty standing from seated positions.

Strength and Bone Mineral Density

Clinical Pilates improves our skeletomuscular strength which helps to manage and reduce spinal and limb pain including neck pain and lower back pain, and helps to manage and increase bone mineral density.

Flexibility

Clinical Pilates helps stretch out the muscles and the joints which in turn facilitates good movement both during intentional exercise and during day to day activities.

Rehabilitation after Injury

Clinical Pilates aims to strengthen our weak muscle groups, improve movement patterns, agility and flexibility to manage injury and prevent further injury to our body. 

Clinical Pilates also promotes body awareness and can improve our overall sense of wellbeing.

Clinical Pilates with Embody Movement

As exercise physiologists and physiotherapists we know that prevention is better than cure when it comes to aches, pains and injury.

Clinically prescribed exercise and movement in general has been proven to reduce the risk of musculoskeletal injury, and reduce the risk of and assist in managing many chronic medical conditions such as diabetes and heart disease.   

Embody Movement offers Clinical Pilates classes from both our Currimundi and Forest Glen locations! Call us on 07 5337 9853 for our Currimundi clinic or on 07 5391 4929 for our Forest Glen clinic to book your initial consultation.

Originally published 15 May 2023, revised and updated 13 March 2024.