Full Description
An essential guide to helping common musculo-skeletal conditions through Pilates exercises.
This in-depth, yet clear and practical, book is written by two respected Pilates instructors with years of experience in rehabilitation. It details not only remedial exercises for each of the common conditions but also provides a detailed anatomy and pathology breakdown for each.
The first part of the book outlines the basic principles of Pilates. Next it explores the conditions found in the lumbar, spine, neck, shoulder, pelvis and hip, and knee and lower leg and also postural disfunction. Remedial exercises are detailed for each of these in the third part.
Contents
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: THE BASICS
Chapter One: The basics
PART TWO: THE CONDITIONS
Chapter Two: Common conditions of the lumbar spine
Chapter Three: Common conditions of the neck
Chapter Four: Common conditions of the shoulder
Chapter Five: Common conditions of the pelvis and hip
Chapter Six: Common conditions of the knee and lower leg
Chapter Seven: Postural dysfunction
PART THREE: THE EXERCISES
Chapter Eight: Pelvic stability
Chapter Nine: The shoulder girdle
Chapter Ten: Spinal flexion
Chapter Eleven: Hip rehabilitation
Chapter Twelve: Spinal extension
Chapter Thirteen: Spinal mobilisation
Chapter Fourteen: Knee and lower limb
Chapter Fifteen: Stretches
RESOURCES
ACKOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
