Pilates exercises are designed to strengthen and tone your back, abdominal and pelvic muscles; also known as your “core stability”. The series of low repetition, low impact stretching and conditioning exercises will also help improve your posture and body awareness.
The medical world is now realising the benefits of the Pilates method for the prevention and rehabilitation of back injuries. In order to prevent a recurrence of back pain, it is essential to retrain the deep abdominal and spinal muscles.
About your instructor
As a physiotherapist Kate has been successfully using core stability exercises within her treatments to help improve the function of her clients' core muscles and subsequently helping to reduce their pains. This has led her to further post-graduate specialist Pilates training.
Kate's Pilates qualifications have been with the world renowned Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute and these include:
* Intermediate and Advanced Matwork
* Antenatal and Postnatal Pilates
* Class instructor
* Pilates and the gym ball
With Kate’s physiotherapy training you can be reassured that you will be exercising safely without placing excessive strain on vulnerable joints. All the Pilates programmes will be specifically designed for each class’s requirements. The small class sizes at Verulam Clinic allow valuable individual attention and instructions; this is significantly advantageous to alternative larger non-specific exercise classes.
As a Chartered Physiotherapist Kate is registered with the Health Professional Council and The Chartered Society of Physiotherapist.
