Physio for Women Pilates

All our Pilates Classes are currently online.

New for lockdown  ‘Pilates Anytime’ class (see Pilates booking).

The Physio For Women Pilates classes are held in  Woodstock Town Hall on Mondays @ 6.30 pm & Wednesdays @ 6 pm & 7pm; & Cumnor Old School on Tuesdays at 1130. 

The classes come in a block of twelve and cost £120. Roll-on and drop in options are available. Booking is essential and full payment is required before your first class.

More about Pilates:-

It is well known that Pilates focuses on retraining, re-strengthening and reconditioning your core muscles.

The core is a specific group of muscles which provide support to your abdomen, back, pelvic girdle and pelvic organs. The diaphragm forms the top of your core cylinder and the pelvic floor muscle forms the bottom. The sides and the front of your core are made up of the abdominal muscles (transverses abdominus), and the back by a spinal stabiliser called multifidus (see Fig 3).

The pelvic floor muscle is being increasingly acknowledged as a key stabiliser for the back and pelvic girdle as well as its more traditional roles of continence and pelvic organ support. Evidence suggests that poor function and motor control of the pelvic floor can be a significant contributing factor in ongoing musculoskeletal, gynaecological, urological and colorectal dysfunction. Observational trials have further found a strong link between low back and pelvic pain and associated pelvic floor dysfunction such as incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse.

The Physio for Women Pilates classes encompasses all the traditional pilates exercises but with an additional focus and emphasis on rehabilitating the pelvic floor muscles in their entirety and the immediate surrounding connecting pelvic musculature.

These classes are ideal for patients who have:-

Pelvic Floor problems:-

• Post operative recovery after gynae, urology or colorectal surgery such as prolapse repairs, tension free tapes, perineal or pelvic floor refashioning etc.

• Stress urinary incontinence

• Urine urgency and urge incontinence

• Decreased sensation to pass urine and hesitancy

• Faecal incontinence

• Faecal urgency

• Flatal incontinence (inability to control wind)

• Constipation

• Perineal tears during childbirth (including pain, sensitivity)

• Pelvic organ prolapse (uterine, bladder, rectum)

• Vaginismus

Musculoskeletal problems:-

• Pelvic Girdle Pain

• Sacro-iliac joint dysfunction

• Symphysis pubis dysfunction

• Back pain

• Abdominal muscle separation (after an initial physiotherapy assessment)

• Coccyx pain

• Hip pain

• Sciatica