The Pilates Focus Series: Hip and Lower Leg

The Pilates Focus Series will take Pilates to the next level by enabling teachers to retrain specific sites and directions of uncontrolled movement by adapting repertoire based on retraining strategies and principles detailed in this course.

Course Outline

The course content will include

• Functional anatomy and biomechanics of the hip and lower leg

• Alignment and posture

• Review of the site and direction of uncontrolled movement of the hip and lower leg

• Muscle function and classification of the hip and lower leg (global stability muscle system and global mobility muscle system)

• Low threshold recruitment retraining strategies using principles of dissociation and range

• High threshold recruitment retraining strategies using principles of dissociation, control of range and unstable base training

• The myth of core stability / adapting repertoire to target the specific movement fault

• Functional integration

• Adapting Pilates repertoire to control uncontrolled movement of the hip and lower leg

• Indications, contra-indications and precautions of common dysfunctions encountered in the Pilates Studio

Audience

The Pilates MPS is suitable for Pilates teachers, Pilates trained rehabilitation professionals, and Physiotherapists with a working knowledge of Pilates who want to use Pilates in clinical practice.

Key Features

• Linking uncontrolled movement to functional anatomy

• Principles of retraining to design a client specific training programme

• The myth of core stability / practical evaluation

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course the student should be able to:

• Design and implement a client specific retraining programme based on the site and direction of uncontrolled movement at the hip and lower leg

Programme Outline

• Functional anatomy and biomechanics of the hip and lower leg

• Alignment and posture of the hip and lower leg

• Review of the site and direction of uncontrolled movement of  the hip and lower leg

• Muscle function and classification of the hip and lower leg (global stability muscle system and global mobility muscle system)

• Review of low threshold recruitment retraining principles of dissociation and control of range

• Review of high threshold recruitment retraining strategies using principles of dissociation, control of range and unstable base training

• The myth of core stability

• Functional integration

• Adapting Pilates repertoire to control uncontrolled movement of the hip and lower leg (practical workshops)

• Indications, contra-indications and precautions of common dysfunctions encountered in the Pilates Studio