Post Acute or Surgery: The use of equipment is designed to help support the body through safe and pain free movement after an injury or surgery when other exercises may be too painful or contraindicated by your doctor. Re-building muscle strength is important and Pilates can assist in starting, by modifying resistance exercises to meet the patient’s needs.

Chronic Pain: Slow, controlled, and mindful exercises will guide the patient through precise movement strategies directed by Alix. This will help the patient move pain free for the first time. A plethora of equipment such as balls, bands, etc… are designed to help the body remember and restore what it is like to move without pain.

High Level Atheletes: Strength, flexibility, body awareness… check. So then, why are you still in pain? Pilates utilizes different ways of assessing the body as a whole that can help to uncover the root cause of why your foot hurts on the third mile of your run. Perhaps it has nothing to do with your foot, but in fact is due to misalignment in your ribcage!

Multiple Sites of Pain: Pilates looks at the function of muscles in the body in a different way, and can help those with multiple sites of pain find the the root cause. More than likely, there is a lack of control or coordination of different body parts that can benefit from learning how to integrate movement patterns throughout all the joints of the body.

Hypermobility/EDS: Pilates seeks to improve the efficiency and capabilities of the individual person. Those with EDS, who’s connective tissue lacks the strength of collagen, need an approach to strengthening that their tissues can handle. Conventional methods of strengthening are not tailored to this individual and improper instructions and cuing can be detrimental to the hypermobile body. This can lead to joint shearing, overloading of muscle tissue, nerve compression and chronic inflammation. Pilates is designed to help this person learn how to control precise joint movement, reducing the pain and shear that often happens when a joint has too much flexibility.

Generalized Weakness: The use of equipment, skilled coaching, and mindful movement allow for the restoration of strength, when other methods seem too difficult.