Table of Contents
- What is Pilates?
- Benefits of Pilates
- Types of Pilates
- Pilates Equipment
- Adapted Pilates
- Pilates for Individuals with SCI
- Sample Warm-Up for SCI with Emphasis on STOTT PILATES Five Basic Principles
- Special Considerations in Respect to Exercise and SCI
- Additional Equipment for Adapted Pilates
- About The Author
- Note
- Spinal Cord Injury
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Pain is a Major Secondary Condition Among People with Spinal Cord Injury
- Effect of a Holistic Health Promotion Program on Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
- Metabolic and cardiopulmonary responses to acute progressive resistive exercise in a person with C4 spinal cord injury.
- Long-term exercise training in persons with spinal cord injury: effects on strength, arm ergometry performance and psychological well-being.
- Blood pressure and heart rate response to isometric exercise: The effect of spinal cord injury in humans.
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Using Evidence-Based Physical Activity Guidelines to Reduce Secondary Conditions in People with Spinal Cord Injury
- Focus on Secondary Condition Prevention: Osteoporosis Risk and Low Bone Mineral Density in People with Spinal Cord Injury
- Review of Effectiveness of Physical Interventions for SCI
- A Protective Prescription for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries
- Gyms Need a Higher Level of Technology To Reach People with Disabilities
- Feeling Good: Exercising with Spinal Cord Injury
- Exercise Program for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries: Tetraplegia VHS/DVD & Quick Series Booklet
- Exercise Program for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injuries: Paraplegia - Video & Quick Series Booklet
- Exercise Induced Change in Psychological Well-Being among Spinal Cord Injury
- Assessment of holistic wellness program for persons with spinal cord injury
Pilates for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury
What is Pilates?
Pilates exercise was originally developed by Joseph H. Pilates in the early 1900's. He first developed his "mat work" exercise to be done on the floor, calling this regimen "contrology." Later, during World War I, he was based in a camp where he became a nurse/caretaker to those struck with wartime disease and injury. It was here he began to develop equipment to allow his patients to perform the exercise. Pilates exercise emphasizes core strength and stability. It strengthens, tones, improves posture, enhancing muscle flexibility and balance while uniting the body and mind. Unlike some exercise programs, quality of movement is emphasized over quantity.
National Center on Health, Physical Activity, and Disability
