Overview
- The first English-language specialist book on the Pilates method in prevention (“Pilates Studio”) and physiotherapy (“Pilates for Rehabilitation”)
- Detailed instructions for mat and equipment training
- 50 essential mat exercises, clearly illustrated in over 400 color photographs
- Pilates in rehabilitation: with numerous concrete treatment examples
- With a total of over 780 color illustrations
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Pilates book for professionals: Background information and extensive practical knowledge on using the Pilates approach in prevention and therapy. The foundations include, among others, the "Pilates Principles" (Breathing, Centering, Flow, Precision, Concentration, Control and Coordination). The extensive praxis part presents all techniques and exercises (mat and equipment training) with detailed photos of movement sequences and with precise instructions and explanations of each exercise. Class plans provide concrete suggestions for the design of course units with prevention orientation and patient examples illustrate treatment procedures and therapeutic effects of the Pilates approach for different symptoms. - A must-have for all Pilates professionals: teachers, trainers, physiotherapists.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Verena Geweniger (Darmstadt, Germany): Sports educator and Pilates trainer with various international certifications, since 2006 President of the German Pilates Association (Deutscher Pilates-Verband)
Alexander Bohlander (Cologne, Germany): Managing Director of POLESTAR Europe (European educational institute for Pilates trainers), physiotherapist, alternative medical practitioner and Pilates Master Trainer. Since 1995 he has operated a practice for holistic physiotherapy and osteopathy with an integrated Pilates studio.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual
Book Subtitle: Exercises with Mats and Equipment for Prevention and Rehabilitation
Authors: Verena Geweniger, Alexander Bohlander
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38114-0
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-38113-3Published: 20 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-50746-9Published: 09 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-38114-0Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 310
Number of Illustrations: 327 b/w illustrations, 454 illustrations in colour
Topics: Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine, Rehabilitation