Pilates

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Our Pilates classes focus on core stability and strengthening, breathing, injury prevention and improving flexibility and posture. Originally created by Joseph Pilates, who developed the Pilates repertoire from strong personal experience in fitness, he termed Pilates as the comprehensive integration of body, mind and spirit. By exercising the deeper stabiliser muscles of the body, Pilates helps to correct muscles imbalances and identify and improve weaker areas of the body. Pilates is a low impact exercise that needs to be executed with awareness and understanding of one’s body.

 

Healthy Spines

Conducted in consultation with medical doctors, Healthy Spines provides specific rehabilitation exercises for those struggling with recurrent back and neck pain and who prefer exercising in a group. Our Biokineticists perform a thorough evaluation before our participants’ begin their rehabilitation. This is to ascertain what their specific back problem is and to determine whether they have any muscular imbalances, instabilities, weakness or reduced range of movement. The therapeutic modalities used in this programme include functional stabilisation exercises to improve the body's internal corset as well as hydrotherapy, fascial release, neural flossing and flexibility.

Activities of daily living are analysed and altered to improve daily posture and improve pain and function. In the final phase of rehabilitation a functional, progressive resistance exercise programme is prescribed to improve overall strength and optimise movement in the patient.

 

The Programme offers the Following:

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• Screening and assessment by a Biokineticist

• Regular, individualised exercise sessions

• A variety of exercise rehabilitation modalities

 

Benefits Include:

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• Improvement of function and quality of life

• Improvement of lower back and pelvic stability

• Pain self-management, decreasing costly Physiotherapy and Dr's bills

• Correct posture

• Improved balance

• Reduced number of days from work

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Healthy Moms

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Healthy Mom’s is a scientifically based fitness programme designed for the expectant and new mother. All moms’ are screened and assessed by qualified Biokineticists, pre-and post-natal, to monitor progress. The initial assessment includes body fat percentage, pelvic stability and diastasis evaluation, cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, as well as flexibility testing. Exercise sessions take place in group, but one-on-one sessions are also available for those with specific needs or serious injuries. Therapeutic modalities include: resistance training, aqua therapy, cardiovascular exercise and Pilates classes.

 

Healthy Mom’s offers the following:

• A fun and safe way of keeping fit with other mothers in a professionally supervised environment.

• A pre and post natal assessment conducted by qualified Biokineticists.

• Supervised sessions of gym, aqua therapy and Pilates classes.

 

Benefits include:

• Improved posture

• Toned and strengthened muscles in areas that are under stress, particularly upper and lower back, abdomen and pelvis

• Improved blood circulation

• Controlled weight gain

• Improved sense of wellbeing and overall energy levels

• Increased fitness and endurance during pregnancy as well as labour

• Rapid return to normal body weight after birth