by Laura Helsel | Feb 4, 2019 | Low Back Pain, Pain management, Pilates For Everyone
How you manage an episode of acute low back pain can determine whether your pain becomes chronic. Gone are the days of rest and ice as research clarifies that movement and mindset are critical to long term recovery.
by Laura Helsel | Aug 3, 2018 | Biomechanics, Franklin Method, Hip Stability, Pain management, Pilates For Everyone, Pilates Teacher Training
We adapt Pilates to the person, not the person to Pilates. With the Pilates Process™ approach our concern isn’t that the client performs Pilates well, though that will eventually happen over time. Our aim is that Pilates serves the client well...
by Laura Helsel | Jun 10, 2018 | Pain management, Pilates For Everyone
Working with clients in various levels of pain over the past 15 years, I’ve developed an understanding, a respect, of the specific challenge that is coping with chronic pain. Fluctuating in intensity but always present, the pain is frequently without obvious...
by Laura Helsel | Jun 10, 2016 | Pain management, Pilates For Everyone
The following is an essay by Beatrice Politi on her experience with chronic pain. Beatrice is a teacher at the Pilates Process studio in Toronto. It’s what I’d been waiting for. To see one thing. If only I could fix that one thing, the pain would go...
