Back pain is one of the most common conditions people of all ages experience and is the leading cause of disability worldwide according to the Global Burden of Disease 2010.  It causes many people to hold back from engaging in work or other everyday activities such as exercising.Exercising is a fundamental part of a healthy lifestyle, so it is essential to do the right exercises for your body and avoid the wrong ones, especially if you are dealing with a back injury or back pain. Most of us know that exercise will help improve back pain, so it’s important when you start that you know what ..read more

Pilates can help you be the Grandparent you want to be! The Grandkids come round – and you need to play and entertain them. You look after them a couple of days a week, and though you love them to bits, it’s a relief to hand them back at the end of the day! God forbid you have them over night – as you’re wiped out for the  next day too! Bur even then – you’ve still got to get up for the dog- they need their daily walk – even if you don’t exactly feel up to it! Whatever happened to retirement? Lifestyle’s these days have changed. It used to be you became the lovely old nanna – cardigan, cu ..read more

Do you know  immediately what to do when your back pain plays up? Do you have a management strategy that you can implement straight away that will effectively manage and control your back pain? If not – would you want one? A client came to us from another practise. She had had ongoing pain and issues for a number of years – and had her own management plan to work with. She had pains A, B and C. She had 20 exercises to deal with those pains…. all listed on a sheet. Her strategy was if she got pain – and it didn’t matter which pain-  A,B, C – she did the same things… she went through t ..read more

There’s a big debate in the physio world at the moment about posture. Whether there is good posture, bad posture. Whether we should be correcting people or advising they change their posture… Thing is posture is not a problem – whether you have good or bad posture – until it is a problem and causes pain. So my humble 2 cents worth… Yes – posture CAN cause pain. I am old school – I grew up when we had to stand up straight, chest out, shoulders back. We were taught not to lean on our elbows at the dining table, you had to eat at the table – not in front of the TV. At school we couldn’t write wit ..read more

Managing chronic pain takes trust. As a physio  most the clients  we see  are in Pain – and they generally fall under two different categories…passive and active. What does that mean? We switched our practise model over to a pro active one a decade ago – so we run a fully functional, fully equipped Pilates studio alongside our clinic. We can service clients right from acute injury all the way through to elite sports rehab and absolutely everything in between….and through the process of what we do and what we offer we naturally attract those clients who are pro active. They want ..read more

Get the best results when you work with Back Pain Clients. If you’re a Pilates or yoga professional and you want to get better results with your clients who have back pain, then you’re not gonna want to miss this program! What’s it about? The program will run over eight weeks. We start Monday, March 4th 2021 for eight weeks online. We will go through the major back pain conditions, what they actually are, and what that means in a language you can understand. So if you don’t have a medical background, we’re going to be explaining what the different back issues are, and ..read more

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Make 2020 the year you take control and say no more to back pain. Back pain sucks – but it really doesn’t have to be that way! My aim for 2020 is to share my knowledge and educate as many people as I can with what I know works for back pain. I’ve been a physio for over 25 years working with and managing people with back pain and what I share with you has been my accumulated knowledge of exactly what works and why – and its not what you think! In our online program for back pain we’ll be covering: PAIN – what type of pain you have, why you have it – from when it comes to what makes it worse and ..read more

Pain Sucks. Back Pain Sucks. Posture Pain Sucks. I get it – I get that you’re scared and worried about what to do from here. I know you’ve been trying to hide how much it gets you down. The having to think about how you’re gonna cope and manage every single day, when all you want to do is pull the covers over your head and stay in bed. It’s mentally draining and physically exhausting for you. Knowing that whatever relief you get – it’s short lived. Whatever you’ve tried in the past – has not ‘held’ – and you feel you take 3 steps forward and then 4 steps back. And I hear you. I know where you ..read more

Our Pilates Support Mentor Site is now live! if you’re a Pilates Instructor who wants to know more, if you want some support you can access whenever you choose on our soon to go live membership site, support from a private face book group, somewhere you can ask questions and get answers? This is for you. Grow your knowledge base, learn more, understand different conditions and injuries and learn appropriate modifications and what s within or beyond your scope of practise. We know it’s hard to take on something you’re not sure of – so here’s an example f the kind of into to expect – it’s a shor ..read more