Clinical Pilates
Using exercises and props, this class is designed to help you develop maximum body control, flexibility and strength throughout your joints’ full range of motion, improving overall joint mobility and longevity.
Created by Breathe Education Director, Thicha Srivisal
Clinical Pilates is based on the original Pilates technique created by Joseph Pilates in the early 20th Century. Clinical Pilates is used to rehabilitate patients after an injury or surgery. It differs from Pilates because it considers an individual’s particular ailments and physical demands to create a personalised rehabilitation programme. Clinical Pilates focuses on retraining movement patterns with greater abdominal control, body awareness, and breathing techniques. Focusing on the quality of each posture/movement and the integration of the entire body is crucial to the objectives of Clinical Pilates. This makes Clinical Pilates an excellent therapy option for strengthening core muscles and keeping them conditioned.
Clinical Pilates classes at Breathe are led by a Rehabilitative Pilates certified instructor who has had the proper training and specialisation in injury management and prevention. An expert certified physiotherapist will also closely assess your physical condition before recommending a class. This ensures that all activities covered are suited to your needs. Moreover, these classes are often conducted as one-on-one supervised sessions for optimal results.
Clinical Pilates Benefits
1. Build Core Strength
Clinical Pilates is an excellent place to start if someone wants to increase strength in a low-impact approach. You’ll gain strength while also improving flexibility and balance, taking into mind the overall health of your body. Clinical Pilates will also strengthen the pelvic floor and other core muscles. Our professional Pilates classes at Breathe are designed to target specific muscles to increase core strength. These classes are also done under the supervision of Health Professionals such as a physiotherapist or doctor. Strongly focusing on the latest research and at times including training using real-time ultrasound to assess muscle activation at specific parts of the body, we ensure that we are constantly on top of our game.
2. Increase Flexibility and Maintain Balance
Flexibility is extremely important for your health and well-being. A Clinical Pilates class will progressively enhance flexibility while simultaneously increasing strength around the joints to improve stability and flexibility. With the implementation of corrective exercises, movement retraining, and strengthening, Clinical Pilates will help you regain full function over time.
3. Injury Rehabilitation
Muscles can become weak and lose their normal movement patterns as a result of injury or surgery. Clinical Pilates develops and re-trains muscles to operate when and how they are needed, making these classes useful for injury rehabilitation. Working with a qualified Physiotherapist, our Breathe Clinical Pilates instructors will design exercises that are precisely matched to your needs. Maintaining tight communication within the multidisciplinary team, progress is constantly tracked to support client recovery.
4. Promotes Body Awareness
Clinical Pilates requires you to pay attention to your movements while also managing your breathing and stability. As you partake in Clinical Pilates, you will become more aware of how your body is feeling. Moreover, the versatility of the exercises taught during Clinical Pilates classes can be universally applied to a range of activities done on a daily basis.
Who Can Perform Clinical Pilates?
Clinical Pilates is suitable for people of all ages, including pregnant women and the elderly. People suffering from lower back and neck pain (strains, sprains, disc issues, or post-surgery), prenatal clients suffering from pregnancy-related aches and pains, can all benefit from Clinical Pilates.
Stages of Clinical Pilates
Every client that joins Breathe for Clinical Pilates will go through a specific process to ensure that the right routine is designed to support the development of maximum body control, flexibility and strength and improve overall joint mobility. Client history will first be analysed and the Pilates exercises should be given the green light by medical professionals. Our instructors will then understand your goals and assess your range of movement and strength. Once all assessments are complete, Clinical Pilates classes will be conducted in a pain-free range in our Breathe studio. A home exercise programme will also be provided to support the rehabilitation.
If you’re looking to join Clinical Pilates sessions in Singapore, you’ve come to the right place! Here at Breathe, our trained professionals will customise the most suitable exercise plan and routine for you.Our wide variety of classes provides everyone with an optimal space to partake in exercises correctly and under proper supervision. Take advantage of the customised attention that our small class sizes provide. You may book a one-on-one Clinical Pilates session with our trained instructor or visit us to learn more about our pilates programmes and prices.
Author - Thicha Srivisal
Thicha Srivisal is a leader and a pioneer in pilates & GYROTONIC industry in Singapore & Thailand. She was the first to introduce pilates & GYROTONIC to Bangkok, Thailand. She co-founded Absolute pilates Bangkok & Singapore, currently Absolute group. She later co-founded breathe pilates group in Asia.
Currently, she runs the Education department at Breathe Pilates group in Singapore & Bangkok. She’s been training, mentoring and certifying new instructors for almost 2 decades. She’s a fully certified Merrithew(R) LEAD Instructor Trainer and have been teaching, mentoring and certifying Pilates instructor courses to new aspiring instructors around the world namely Singapore and abroad including South Korea, Thailand, USA and india for almost 2 decades.
With a deep passion for the art of movement, she earned an Advanced level certification from the Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) in the UK and a Certificate of higher dance education from the University of Surrey, UK. In 2003, she became a certified Polestar pilates instructor and later Merrithew(R) instructor after extensive Pilates training in the United States, Canada, Singapore, and Hong Kong. She studied with renowned master teachers & learned about diverse topics ranging from osteoporosis to pregnancy, scoliosis, disc herniations, the pelvic floor, and rehabilitation techniques.
After discovering the rehabilitation and therapeutic benefits of Pilates firsthand in 2002, she transformed her body back into top dancing condition by using various Pilates movements. This experience inspired her to become a Pilates instructor & later instructor trainer and share the profound benefits of Pilates with others.
In addition to Pilates, I am also a certified GYROTONIC, GYROKINESIS, and GYROTONER trainer, having studied under notable master trainers across Europe and America. I completed a scoliosis GYROTONIC course with Master Trainer Paul Horvath and a hip-opening GYROTONIC course with Master Trainer Debra Rose. I am also certified in GYROKINESIS by Juliu Horvath, the inventor of the GYROTONIC system, and was accepted by Juliu as a Pre-trainer in GYROTONIC in 2009.
