Postural Rehabilitation

Consultation and Assessment Process

In order to retrain the body, Bridgette uses a range of rigorous assessment tools to provide a base line for her to work from in designing your prescriptive programme. On your initial visit she will analyse your posture and assess how your posture is influencing the way you move, which may exacerbate any problems you are experiencing. Specific tests will be used to highlight those areas of altered flexibility, instability and loss of normal movement patterns. Tests will look for both low and high load motor control problems relating to stability and performance. Notes from other health professionals involved with the rehabilitation process will also be discussed if necessary.

Designing your programme.

Rehabilitation programmes are then designed over a course of visits.

You will practice exercises on a one to one basis with Bridgette. Sessions are designed to allow you to proceed at your own pace in a relaxed learning environment.

You will learn a proactive approach to your condition and realise that through intelligent, gentle exercise you can learn to move with confidence again. Research indicates that reducing movement after injury is counterproductive in most cases.

What will Pilates Personal rehabilitation training do for you?

Through gentle exercises that encourage co-activation of the local and global muscles responsible for stability and functional movement patterns, you will learn how to improve your posture, kinaesthetic awareness (movement sense) and improve normal every day functioning and your sport performance. This will help to reduce the risk of injury and regain correct movement patterns.

All too often I see postural problems related to lack of flexibility reducing range of movement. Through encouraging core stabilisation and by working in all three planes of motion (sagittal, transverse and frontal planes) function can be restored. Traditional exercise regimes focus on working in one plane of motion only (often sagittal), and neglect exercising in the other two required for muscle balance and correct functional movement.

Equipment such as the stability balls, resistance bands, balance air discs, the fitness circle and the foam roller will be used to enhance proprioception skills (messages from the brain communicate to sense receptors in the muscles to help finely tune posture and body position).

It is important to realise that muscles work together to produce movement and not in isolation from oneanother:

‘The spinal cord is the keyboard on which the brain plays when it calls for activity. But each key in the console sounds not an individual tune, such as the contraction of a particular group of muscle fibres, but a whole symphony of motion? The brain thinks in terms of whole motions not individual muscles’ (Irwin M Corr 1976)

You will have your own personalised recovery programme that brings both your mind and body into balance. Over the period of your course you will be asked to practice your programme at home between sessions. Your programme will be progressed as your movement patterns improve and you begin to get stronger.

At the end of your course you have the option to continue training on a one-to-one basis to develop your programme further, and to join the rehabilitation class subject to a place being available.

You will be provided with instructions and details to help you to practice the exercises at home between sessions. There is no extra cost for this service.

Rehabilitation courses

Initial consultation is for approx 1½ hours and includes health screening, postural analysis, stability performance assessments and introduction to the Pilates method.

Courses are for 6, 8 or 10 sessions and last for 1 hour.
Session times are flexible and run from Monday through to Saturday mornings. Bookings are by appointment please.
All sessions are strictly private and confidential and conducted in a light and airy studio in Allestree, Derby.

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Tel: 01332 557980