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Thoughts and tips about the world of Pilates, from the experts at Pacific Northwest Pilates in Portland, Oregon
Cueing for Clients: Glute Activation
Toss out the bad eggs. Miscommunicated imagery and cues can lead clients to worse pain patterns and problems. Melanie reminds … Read more
Motor Progression: Leg Extensions on Arc Barrel
Progress your clients through the phases of cognitive, associative, and automatic motor learning theory. Our focus today is on a … Read more
What Can We Learn: Ab Prep
Assess and then cue. When working with clients, assessment exercises can reveal insightful information on muscle recruitment and movement tendencies. … Read more
Big Toe Assessment in Single Leg Stretch
Diving toes, beware. It takes a smart and trained eye to catch unhealthy movement patterns, which can either begin proximally … Read more
Motor Progression: Rotation Prone from Chair to Arc Barrel
Put motor learning theory into practice. April’s Therapeutic Pilates segments highlight the three phases of motor learning and how to … Read more
Motor Progression: Stability in the Hips
Let’s take a look at the hips. Melanie Byford-Young shows how to stabilize the hips in closed chain and open … Read more
Hip Centering: Posture and Alignment
Hip pain is a common complaint among clients and it helps if you can begin to identify posture and alignment … Read more
Hip Centering: Squish the Goo
Remember to squish the goo when it comes to preventing Anterior Femoral Head Syndrome. In this second episode, Melanie takes … Read more
Shoulder Centering: Scapular Isolation & Squish the Goo
Squish the Goo again. This time it’s all about finding center for your humeral head.
Restore Stability of the Neck: Neck Extensors
Just in the neck of time. The last clip in our February series takes a closer look at the neck … Read more
Restore Stability of the Neck Overview
Hold you head up with confidence. Melanie Byford-Young chats about the stabilizers of the neck and how we can retrain … Read more
Restore Stability of the Neck: Tongue Placement
It may be surprising that tongue placement can be a contributor to unnecessary neck tension. Today’s session addresses this sneaky … Read more