Pilates for the Physical Therapist
Personalized reformer training for clinical application
Approved for 10 CE credits.
You will not find another clinical education opportunity like this one. A series of personal workouts focused around clinical practice applications to best serve your clients.
- Apply Pilates principles to enhance your clinical practice and to better utilize the reformer and small apparatus and props.
- Experience Pilates exercises in your own body to better understand what you are teaching your clients and how to cue appropriate movement patterns.
- Learn how to use the reformer as a tool to assist your manual work with clients. Mobilize, stabilize, stretch and strengthen the client throughout a session. The reformer can be used throughout the continuum of passive to active treatments.
- Learn how pilates principles apply to the traditional exercises you prescribe as a home program and how they will enhance your outcomes.
- Drawing upon the same set of exercises, each module will have a different focus so you will understand the different components of each exercise, learn how to break it down, modify it and teach it according to your clients individual needs.
Set up in a modular system and with no more than three students per class, you have more time to learn and apply each exercise. You will walk away with a full body Pilates workout that can be used for yourself and your client to achieve their best results.
The Modules
Module 1
Breathing and Core
Breathing as a foundation and integrating the pelvic floor as a key component in core stabilization.
Module 2
Lower Core Isolation/Stabilization/Articulation
Focusing on the pelvic floor, lumbopelvic, thoraco/lumbar and the lower extremity (performed on the reformer and mat).
Module 3
Upper Core Isolation/Stabilization/Articulation
Focusing on the thoracic, cervical, scapula and upper extremity (performed on the reformer and mat).
Module 4
Intent of Movement
Using cuing in an exercise to change the execution in order to adapt the exercise to your needs and findings.
Module 5
Putting it all Together / Practical Applications
The first hour focuses on connecting the dots and creating a workout that flows. Then in the second hour, based on a presented case study, each student will randomly select an exercise to teach with the appropriate modifications based on the needs of the client and issue a related home exercise program.
Class Schedule
The program consists of five two-hour modules. Classes are held Saturdays, 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
Session 1 (2011)
Sep 10, 17, 24
Oct 1, 8
Session 2 (2011)
Oct 22, 29
Nov 5, 12, 19
Session 3 (2012)
Jan 14, 21, 28
Feb 4, 11
Alternative times can be arranged for groups of two or more. Cost is $500 for all five modules.
To register, contact Kristin Procopio at 612-396-9780 or kristin@demo.legerinteractive.com
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