Improve Your Quality Of Life With Private Pilates Training

By Anna Brown


Anyone who has had to learn how to live with the limitations of paraplegia knows just how mentally and physically trying this can be. For an adult to go from independent income-earner to being completely dependent upon those around them, serious issues with depression only serve to worsen their overall condition. However, physical therapy, such as they can receive with private Pilates training, can help them on the road to healing.

There are a few differences between this practice and the movements of Yoga, which more people are familiar with. Yoga is almost always focused on the body as its own weight resistance wherein our instructors do utilize some weights or other resistance tools. For someone who is seriously injured, some of the poses of Yoga pose far too much difficulty.

Yoga instructors often lead their students in a series of movements that work every muscle in the body. Our trainers, on the other hand, are utilizing a series of movements that focus on the upper body, the abdomen, and the muscles supporting the spine. For anyone with the limitations of paraplegia, this upper-body focus is precisely what their body needs to be doing.

Many patients who are severely injured will experience a total loss of muscle tone during their healing process. For this reason, their trainers will begin their fitness regimen with movements that may only require them to tighten muscles in certain parts of the body. By holding abdominal muscles tight for twenty seconds, on up to two minutes or more, they can achieve the flat stomach they once thought was only a dream.

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.

Too much cannot be said about how the health of the mind can impact the health of the body. What not everyone seems to comprehend is that the opposite is also true. By working on the health and strength of the body, the mental and emotional state of the individual improves immediately, and for many these programs are the best treatment for the depression that results from such a major life change.

In many cases, the pain of repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel is so improved with these sessions that surgery is not necessary. Carpal tunnel and back strains are two chronic pain conditions which commonly result from inadequate muscle in the wrists or the spine to support the patient in the activity they endure during a work day. Avoiding risky surgery that may not even help is always a good result.

Patients who fail to attend their sessions with these trainers do themselves a disservice. Anyone with fitness goals is much more likely to achieve them when they attend a class or submit themselves to the attentions of their trainers. With their quality and length of life at stake, it cannot be more strongly urged that they make these disciplines a habit for life.




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