The Pilates Focus Series: Lower Back and Pelvis

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 on the lower back and pelvis

• Alignment and posture

• Review of the site and direction of uncontrolled movement at the lower back and pelvis

• Muscle function and classification at the lower back and pelvis (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 lower back and pelvis

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

Audience

The Pilates Focus Series 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 of the lower back and pelvis

Programme Outline

• Functional anatomy and biomechanics of the lower back and pelvis

• Alignment and posture of the lower back and pelvis

• Review of the site and direction of uncontrolled movement at the lower back and pelvis

• Muscle function and classification at the lower back and pelvis (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 lower back and pelvis (practical workshops)

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