Why Would Your Physio Recommend Clinical Pilates?
A History of Recovery
Pilates was the invention of Joseph Pilates who opened his first studio in New York in 1923. Dancers flocked to his studio because they found the exercises were the best way to recover from injury and also prevent injury reoccurrence. Clinical Pilates is slightly different. A qualified Pilates physio will use targeted exercises to rehabilitate specific muscles through pain relief exercises.
Support Your Back by Rebuilding Your Core
When you experience a back injury, your core stabilisers often become inhibited. This creates an imbalance between stability and mobility. Your stabilisers “switch off,” while your larger movement muscles overcompensate, working overtime to try to keep you stable.
The result? Rigid, painful movement patterns that can trap you in a cycle of recurring low back pain. And no one wants that.
Once you’ve moved past the acute phase of your injury, the next step is retraining your core stabilisers. Learning how to safely and effectively activate these muscles is essential for reducing pain and supporting long-term recovery.
Our Pilates Physio team emphasises that core strengthening is key to preventing persistent, recurring back problems. Through targeted exercises we help you rebuild strength, restore mobility, and regain the freedom to move confidently and pain-free.
Core Strengthening Programs
Sometimes surgery or an old injury can leave you feeling restricted and unable to move the way you used to. It’s a catch-22: when you can’t move well, your core strength declines, but to move freely and confidently, you need that core strength.
Clinical Pilates is the ideal way to break this cycle.
Through a carefully designed, targeted exercise plan, we focus on your individual needs, addressing the weak points that are holding you back.
By strengthening your stomach, back, and pelvic muscles, these exercises restore balance and stability to your body, helping you move with confidence, strength, and freedom again.
Prenatal and Postnatal Pilates
Everyone understands the impact pregnancy can have on a woman’s body. Pregnancy and childbirth bring incredible changes to a woman’s body, that can sometimes lead to ongoing discomfort or injury. We often see women two or three years after giving birth who are still struggling with low back pain, simply because they haven’t had the time or resources to address it. This has become so common that ACC now covers pregnancy-related injuries.
You don’t have to wait until pain sets in.
With Clinical Pilates, you can give your body a head start on motherhood and recovery. This low-impact, tailored exercise helps you strengthen your abdominal muscles, reduce and prevent back pain, build pelvic floor strength and stability, improve breathing control, and overall wellbeing.
Each session is one-on-one, designed specifically for you and your unique needs, so you receive the care and attention that make the biggest difference.
Next steps
Mums are superheroes, but even superheroes need some help. Book a session with our Pilates Physio today.
