Saturday, October 28, 2017

Improve Your Quality Of Life With Private Pilates Training

Improve Your Quality Of Life With Private Pilates Training


by Anna Brown


Anyone who has experienced a catastrophic injury knows the emotional suffering that comes with limited mobility. A sudden and dramatic decrease in personal mobility, independence, and mental status promotes serious depression. For many patients, the physical limitations and mental trauma can be successfully treated with physical exercise, and private Pilates training is just the right medicine.

This discipline is often confused with Yoga, but there are some vital differences between the two. A Yoga instructor, known as a Yogi, generally avoids the use of any resistance machinery in their workout. A true Yoga fanatic stays focused on a notion of utilizing their own body weight, along with gravity, as the only resistance needed during the routine.

Yoga, as a form of physical fitness, is designed to work virtually every muscle in the body during the course of a one-hour session. Our trainers, on the other hand, are following a fitness discipline which focuses on spinal alignment as well as strengthening the upper body and core. Many of the exercises they will show the patient can be done from a chair, or even on a couch.

Such an approach to fitness is ideal for these patients, as many of these poses do not require them to move at all. Their trainer will help them with the parts of the body they no longer have use of, helping to maintain healthy circulation. Working the core itself can be accomplished by simply tightening abdominal muscles for a set length of time.

Spinal injuries and repetitive motion injuries, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, are the most common ways that humans hurt themselves. For someone who has completely lost the use of half of their body, keeping the upper half strong is more than an improvement in lifestyle. When a patient allows themselves to become completely inactive, they can suffer painful bedsores, or even a loss of circulation that can be fatal.

Not only does our attitude impact how our bodies heal, but engaging in exercise to improve strength and basic mobility has consistently been shown to improve the emotional state of the patient. Some people have used this type of personalized physical therapy as a way to get off of, or even avoid the use of antidepressants or other mood stabilizers.

Many patients in wheelchairs suffer back pain, and it is not uncommon for them to become alcoholics. However, by improving the strength of their spine, many patients have been able to avoid risky back surgeries that might not even solve the problem. Additionally, with the emotional benefits of exercise, many patients who fall prey to alcoholism find a better way to cope.

Studies have been conducted regarding the matter of solo-fitness versus attending a class or seeing a physical therapist. For the average person, their chances of meeting fitness goals on their own are quite slim. For someone who may be on the verge of giving up on life completely, the need for them to make their PT appointments becomes even more dire, and their success even more vital to their very existence.




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