Entries in pelvic floor (3)
Pilates On Call: Working With Pregnant and Postpartum Clients
Amanda Martin
Debra GoodmanFor the fourth installment of our Pilates On Call series, we’re focusing on the topic of pregnancy. We’re sure it will be a busy and popular post, if site traffic for this topic is any indicator.
Pilates On Call is a month-long, open Q&A session with an expert, so this is your opportunity to ask about the finer points of Pilates exercise with this population. Perhaps you’d like advice for working with a newly pregnant client, or information about a particular pregnancy-related condition.
We’re thrilled to welcome Debra Goodman, MSPT, back to the site. She’s written several popular articles on Pilates and pregnancy for us, and has an extensive background treating pregnant and postpartum patients. She is one of few physical therapists trained in internal evaluation and treatment of the pelvic floor muscles. And we’re equally thrilled to introduce Amanda Martin, owner of balance in Athens, Georgia, a Pilates and wellness studio that specializes in working with pregnant and post-natal clientele, among other populations. She has been doing this kind of Pilates work since 2004.
Post your questions in the comments section below or email them to us editor@pilates-pro.com. Debra and Amanda will get to them as quickly as possible, but might need a day or two to respond.
Lauren Charlip
in Anatomy, C-section, Education, Pilates On Call, Special Populations, diastasis, pelvic floor, postpartum, pregnancy
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Pilates Pro Newsfeed
Our semi-regular rundown of Pilates news from around the Web. Enjoy!
• Heads up, PMA members: The agenda for November’s Teacher Training Summit has been released.
• Kudos to Aida Zorilla, owner of Studio A: Pilates in San Antonio, for raising $26,000 for cancer research and being named Woman of the Year by her local Leukemia and Lymphoma Society chapter.
• This Washington, D.C. Pilates studio inside Mint Fitness maximized space and amped up its clients’ workouts with Pilates circuit-training.
• Here’s an excellent five-minute workout for happy feet, Pilates-style, from Elizabeth Larkam and the Chicago Tribune
• The South Korean military utilizes Pilates in its special-command training. Check out this great photo. Why, we wonder, are they all screaming?
• Here’s a post from About.com’s sex channel, called Pilates for Sex. It highlights the role of the pelvic floor, specifically the pubococcygeus muscle.
Amy Leibrock
in Feet, News/Research, PMA, cancer, pelvic floor, sex
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Restoring the Floor While Integrating the Core
6 Essential Moves for Postpartum Health
Dawn-Marie Ickes, MPT, is a partner in the Los Angeles studio Core Conditioning, which offers Pilates, Gyrotonic and physical therapy at Burbank and Studio City locations. Ickes has lectured nationally on Pilates and is on the Board of Directors of the Pilates Method Alliance. She is often noted for her work with pregnant women and new mothers. Here, Ickes shares her approach to training women who have recently given birth.
By Dawn-Marie Ickes
Many women will spend hours each week exercising their legs and abdominal muscles in an effort to “get their pre-pregnancy body back.” The most crucial component of ANY sort of exercise in this immediate postpartum period is restoring the normal function of the pelvic floor muscles and integrating the core muscles. Women are very adept at identifying the changes in sensation and strength in their abdominal muscles following birth, yet few are able to tell or even consider how their pelvic floor and other core muscles have been affected by 9 months of pregnancy and a delivery.
Amy Leibrock
in Kegel, Special Populations, Teaching Strategies, pelvic floor, postpartum, pregnancy, transversus abdominus
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