Pilates Informed Exercise

• Pain relieving exercise
• Challenge, to strength & flexibility
• Targeted exercise to build co-ordination, flexibility, balance
• Positional options to exercise in: standing, sitting, kneeling, supine & prone.
• More choice when fatigued & ability to exercise longer, which suits weak clients.
• Exercise to individual muscles & limbs individually OR the body as a whole.   
• No need to get on & off the floor.
• A fun choice

After an assessment, your Physiotherapist will tailor exercise programs for you, to address your injuries, health and movement goals and any medical conditions.   Therapy Max’s exercise rehab uses Pilates principles with regressed exercise and other strength and conditioning principles to individualise your recovery and performance.  

Physiotherapy prescribes graduated exercise to regain strength & capacity. Weakness can occur even when an injury has “healed”, resulting in incomplete recovery, leading to ongoing or re-occurring pain.  Weakness can occur due to an injury, fear avoidance and muscle inhibition related to swelling and instability.  A Physio’s role is to identify weakness, whether in the smaller postural and/or stabilising muscles, or the larger muscle groups and restore movement mechanics, to achieving goals.  

Some people with painful, chronic or complex injuries may benefit from combining exercise approaches.  Often beginning with hydrotherapy and progressing to another such as pilates, home or gym programs.  

Pilates informed exercise prescription requires significant post graduate training.  Therapy Max Physios are trained in both Polestar Pilates and APPI and undertake ongoing education in this field, which enable compressive choice of progressed & regressed rehabilitation exercise to our clients.