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Tuesday 17 October 2017

Physical Therapy With Private Pilates Training

By Anna Brown


Anyone who has had to learn how to live with the limitations of paraplegia knows just how mentally and physically trying this can be. For an adult to go from independent income-earner to being completely dependent upon those around them, serious issues with depression only serve to worsen their overall condition. However, physical therapy, such as they can receive with private Pilates training, can help them on the road to healing.

This discipline is often confused with Yoga, but there are some vital differences between the two. A Yoga instructor, known as a Yogi, generally avoids the use of any resistance machinery in their workout. A true Yoga fanatic stays focused on a notion of utilizing their own body weight, along with gravity, as the only resistance needed during the routine.

Yoga, as a form of physical fitness, is designed to work virtually every muscle in the body during the course of a one-hour session. Our trainers, on the other hand, are following a fitness discipline which focuses on spinal alignment as well as strengthening the upper body and core. Many of the exercises they will show the patient can be done from a chair, or even on a couch.

Many patients who are severely injured will experience a total loss of muscle tone during their healing process. For this reason, their trainers will begin their fitness regimen with movements that may only require them to tighten muscles in certain parts of the body. By holding abdominal muscles tight for twenty seconds, on up to two minutes or more, they can achieve the flat stomach they once thought was only a dream.

Spinal injuries and repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, are the most common ways that humans hurt themselves. For someone who has completely lost the use of half of their body, keeping the upper half strong is more than an improvement in lifestyle. When a patient allows themselves to become completely inactive, they can suffer painful bedsores, or even a loss of circulation that can be fatal.

Both disciplines teach the student or patient to focus on the connection between the body and the mind. Individuals who are healing from surgeries or health events in their lives are encouraged to pay close attention to how their moods impact their health. Most patients discover that when they take the time to see their trainer, and follow up with the exercises on their own, their moods improve along with their physical abilities.

Many patients in wheelchairs suffer back pain, and it is not uncommon for them to become alcoholics. However, by improving the strength of their spine, many patients have been able to avoid risky back surgeries that might not even solve the problem. Additionally, with the emotional benefits of exercise, many patients who fall prey to alcoholism find a better way to cope.

Studies have been conducted regarding the matter of solo-fitness versus attending a class or seeing a physical therapist. For the average person, their chances of meeting fitness goals on their own are quite slim. For someone who may be on the verge of giving up on life completely, the need for them to make their PT appointments becomes even more dire, and their success even more vital to their very existence.




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