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Pilates & Pelvic Floor: Pilates Exercises to Help Your Pelvic Floor Function

Clinical Pilates stands out as the preferred exercise modality for both pregnancy and post-natal mothers. It’s low-impact and effectively engages pelvic stabilisers, enhances mobility for stiff backs and hips, and maintains strength as pelvic ligaments experience increased laxity. The clinical approach ensures that exercises are personalised based on the individual’s stage in pregnancy or postpartum, … Continued

Understanding & Preventing Ankle Injuries in Netball

Netball is a sport that demands agility, precision, and quick movements. However, the fast-paced nature of the game also increases the risk of injuries, with ankle injuries being one of the most common among netball players. In this blog post, we’ll explore the impact of ankle injuries in netball and shed light on how osteopathy … Continued

Pelvic Pain

Pelvic pain or dysfunction within the pelvic floor muscles is likely to impact you or someone close to you at some point in your life. It is estimated that 1 in 6 men in Australia are currently experiencing pelvic pain and that persistent pelvic pain is prevalent in roughly 15-25% of women. Pelvic pain can … Continued

Have you developed a pregnancy waddle?

  While postural changes to the pelvis, rib cage and upper body span across the 9 months, there is a significant change in the mothers centre of gravity (as the belly grows), especially in the third trimester. The anterior shift in centre of gravity impacts glute and adductor function as well as how our feet … Continued

Dance Physiotherapy: What’s the point?

Dancers are commonly prone to aches and pains because of the high demand of training load and performance, whether this be at a recreational, amateur or professional level. According to the most recent 2018 Safe Dance study, 97% of professional dancers in Australia reported at least one injury in their career. Common dance injuries include … Continued

New Year, New Exercise Regime!

Well, what a year 2020 was.. Let’s say hello to a better, healthier 2021! Locked-down in Victoria for 111 days, meant that many of us delved into new exercise and training regimes and even gave online ‘Zoom’ classes a red hot go!  Over the last couple of months as gyms, Pilates and yoga studios have … Continued

Why clinical rehabilitation is crucial for your recovery.

This blog helps to explain why exercise rehab for optimum injury recovery is so important and how correct clinical rehabilitation can not only improve outcomes but reduce your overall risk of re-injury.   Okay, so here’s how we GENERALLY see it as practitioners! Please Note: This isn’t applicable to all clients. People usually come to see … Continued

Reformer or Clinical Pilates?

With so many different Pilates options available these days it can be hard to know which one to choose. In this blog, I share my personal experience with Pilates as well as how we run our sessions at Kinematics. Flashback 9 years, I am a 15-year-old girl with aspirations of becoming a Division 1 Scholarship … Continued

Yoga or Pilates?

A question I get asked all the time by my clients is – “Should I do yoga or Pilates?”. Yoga and Pilates come from very different backgrounds. Yoga originated in India and has been around for over 5,000 years. It is a spiritual discipline which focuses on bringing harmony between mind and body through its five … Continued