Back pain is one of the most common problems in our modern lives.

Many studies show that Pilates might help you to reduce back pain and improve function.

Continue to read to learn how Pilates can help you to relieve your back pain.

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What can cause Back Pain?

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As a Physiotherapist and Pilates Instructor, I can tell you there are many different reasons! However, I will mention here the most common reasons and how pilates can help you.

So, one of the most common reasons is anomalies of the spine such as scoliosis, round back or lordosis.

Moreover, as a result of traumatic injuries in muscles, tendons or ligaments in car accidents, playing football etc might cause pain.

In one of the studies it also showed that in elderly women who is experiencing chronic pain their abdominal muscle strength lower than others.

Moreover, researchers found a relationship between muscle weakness and risk of falling. In other words, if you are complaining about falling pilates is not only going to help you to reduce the pain it also helps you to reduce the risk of falling.

How does Pilates help?

Research shows these common reasons cause muscle imbalance, core weakness and core instability. In addition, it is known that for those who have done core stabilisation and strengthening over a period of 6 weeks show greater reduction in pain compared to usual physical therapy exercise in the same period.

So here pilates comes! Pilates helps you to correct your posture, strength and stabilise your core. It makes you aware of your posture.

However, not all of the pilates exercises are suitable. That is to say that you should modify some of the exercises.

So in my opinion, for those who are experiencing pain I would suggest you to get a one on one lesson or join special back classes.

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I hope this information helped you.

I would like to hear your comments. I am also running healthy back classes through Zoom.

E-mail me to give some information about your medical situation and your preferences morning or evening. Then, I will send you more suitable class schedule.

E-mail me if you have any question or enquires saypilates@gmail.com

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Check my homepage for more information one-on-one pilates sessions and group classes.

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References

• Muhammad Waseem Akhtar , Hossein Karimi , Syed Amir Gilani Effectiveness of core stabilization exercises and routine exercise therapy in management of pain in chronic non-specific low back pain: A randomized controlled clinical trial Pak J Med Sci Jul-Aug 2017;33(4):1002-1006. doi: 10.12669/pjms.334.12664.
• Kato S, Murakami H, Demura S, Yoshioka K, Shinmura K, Yokogawa N, Igarashi T, Yonezawa N, Shimizu T, Tsuchiya H. Abdominal trunk muscle weakness and its association with chronic low back pain and risk of falling in older women. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders 2019 Jun 3;20(1):273. doi: 10.1186/s12891-019-2655-4
• Antonino Patti , Antonino Bianco, Antonio Paoli, Giuseppe Messina, Maria Alessandra Montalto, Marianna Bellafiore, Giuseppe Battaglia, Angelo Iovane, Antonio Palma Effects of Pilates exercise programs in people with chronic low back pain: a systematic review.Medicine (Baltimore) 2015 Jan;94(4):e383. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000000383.
• Maria Liliane da Silva , Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto , Katherinne Ferro Moura Franco , Yuri Rafael Dos Santos Franco , Cristina Maria Nunes Cabral Different weekly frequencies of Pilates did not accelerate pain improvement in patients with chronic low back pain.Braz J Phys Ther  May-Jun 2020;24(3):287-292. doi: 10.1016/j.bjpt.2019.05.001. Epub 2019 May 16.
• Hui-Ting Lin , Wei-Ching Hung , Jia-Ling Hung , Pei-Shan Wu , Li-Jin Liaw , Jia-Hao Chang Effects of pilates on patients with chronic non-specific low back pain: a systematic review.J Phys Ther Sci. 2016 Oct;28(10):2961-2969. doi: 10.1589/jpts.28.2961. Epub 2016 Oct 28.
• Cherie Wells , Gregory S Kolt , Paul Marshall , Bridget Hill , Andrea Bialocerkowski The effectiveness of Pilates exercise in people with chronic low back pain: a systematic review.PLoS One. 2014 Jul 1;9(7):e100402. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100402. eCollection 2014.
• A Notarnicola , F Fischetti, G Maccagnano, R Comes, S Tafuri, B Moretti Daily pilates exercise or inactivity for patients with low back pain: a clinical prospective observational study Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2014 Feb;50(1):59-66. Epub 2013 Oct 9.
• https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Fact-Sheets/Low-Back-Pain-Fact-Sheet

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