background: parkinson's disease as a progressive disorder of the nervous system leads to the disability of postural control system. objectives: in the present study the effects of pilates exercises on functional balance in patients with parkinson's was investigated. materials and methods: this control trial included 30 patients with idiopathic parkinson's disease who were selecte...

OBJECTIVES To describe Pilates exercise according to peer-reviewed literature, and compare definitions used in papers with healthy participants and those with low back pain. DESIGN A systematic review of literature was conducted. A search for "pilates" within the maximal date ranges of the Cochrane Library, Medline, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, Physiotherapy Evide...

OBJECTIVE To describe the use of Pilates therapy and sacro-occipital technique in the management of a 39-year-old woman with scoliosis who had undergone spinal fusion many years earlier. CLINICAL FEATURES The patient had progressive severe low back pain that had worsened over the years after her surgery and had prevented her from activities such as carrying her son or equipment necessary for ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if Pilates exercise could improve dynamic balance, flexibility, reaction time and muscle strength in order to reduce the number of falls among older women. 60 female volunteers over the age of 65 from a residential home in Ankara participated in this study. Participants joined a 12-week series of 1-hour Pilates sessions three times per week. Dynamic ba...

BACKGROUND Despite of the widepread use of Pilates in Physical Therapy, there are few studies that have assessed the muscle electrical activation during Pilates exercises. OBJECTIVE Verify the influence of different spring adjustments and individual positions on the electrical activation of multifidus (MU) and oblique external (OE) muscles during hip flexion-extension (HFE) exercise on the Ca...

UNLABELLED Altan L, Korkmaz N, Bingol U, Gunay B. Effect of Pilates training on people with fibromyalgia syndrome: a pilot study. OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of Pilates on pain, functional status, and quality of life in fibromyalgia, which is known to be a chronic musculoskeletal disorder. DESIGN Randomized, prospective, controlled, and single-blind trial. SETTING Physical medici...

[Purpose] This study was to observe the influence of Pilates training on the quality of life in chronic stoke patients. [Subjects and Methods] Forty chronic stroke patients participated in this study. They were divided into same number of experimental group (EG) and control group (CG). EG participated in a 60-min Pilates training program, twice a week for 12 weeks, while the CG did not particip...

Low back pain, one of the skeletal and muscular system problems, is most common chronic diseases in world. Chronic low pain an important disorder that affects daily, social, work-life individuals. The majority people experience at least once their life. In this sense, it both social economic can be acute or chronic, depending on duration syndrome. Interventional, medication, rehabilitation, exe...