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Podcast: Everyday Medicine with Dr Luke
Episode: Episode 125. The Art of Pilates with Samantha Wood
Description: Pilates is a form of low-impact exercise that aims to strengthen muscles while improving postural alignment and flexibility. It can be practised with or without equipment and the movements reinforce slow precise actions and breath control.
The exercises strengthen and stabilise the core which is the body's foundation allowing one to move efficiently while improving posture flexibility and mobility.
This method of exercise is based on the rehabilitation work of Joseph Pilates, born in Dusseldorf in 1883. Joseph Pilates believed that injuries were caused by imbalances in the body and by habitual patterns of imperfect movement and hypothesised...