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Thoughts and tips about the world of Pilates, from the experts at Pacific Northwest Pilates in Portland, Oregon
Challenge Your Client’s Mobility and Reintegrate Ankle Control
Today’s session features the Mini Stability Ball™ and how to challenge you or your client’s mobility and ankle control.
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