Clinical Pilates delivered by your exercise physiologist or physiotherapist aims to promote good movement habits and build a strong foundation that allows your body to perform at its highest capacity day to day whilst also reduce the incidence of pain and injury.
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Starting a Pilates class can help you feel more energised and rejuvenated. Pilates is for everyone, it can be tailored to you and your body. Are you ready to feel more energy? Are you ready to feel strong and confident in your body? Pilates can help you achieve these more.
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Have you ever noticed your jaw “clicks” when you open your mouth or chew your food? Jaw “clicking” is actually quite common. For a better understanding, its worth looking at the anatomy of the jaw and the structures that can contribute.
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The benefits of regular exercise cannot be overstated. Exercise helps to improve mood and sleep, muscle strength and bone mass, lower blood glucose levels (BGLs), improve heart health and more.
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Clinical Pilates is becoming increasingly popular amongst both recreational and elite athletes, of varying ages and different sports, to aid in the optimisation of their performance.
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Introducing strength training under the guidance of an exercise physiologist is the best way to ensure that children and teenagers are safe doing strength exercise. Our practitioners introduce strength exercise to adolescents with a focus on teaching quality movement.
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A coach can help you to identify your goals and provide the clear steps to help you achieve it. A health coach is experienced in the health scope identifying lifestyle behaviours that you would like to change to improve your health and wellbeing and can make the overwhelming task totally achievable.
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There are various types of bariatric surgery that can aid weight loss. We explore the types of bariatric surgery and what to expect after the surgery. Starting an exercise program after bariatric surgery can be overwhelming. An experienced Exercise Physiologist will reassure you and provide safe and effective exercises to help you increase confidence, mobility and fitness.
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Weight loss or maintaining a healthy weight can be difficult. It's easy to feel discouraged. Often the more we try, the harder it can be to sustain those eating habits and the weight creeps back on. There are, however, some other options for changing our mindset that can assist us to make healthier food choices.
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Have you noticed that throughout each month there are days where you feel stronger than others? Or perhaps, you feel low on energy and prefer to do light exercises. Embody Movement Exercise Physiologist Alicea Dwyer explores how to optimise your exercise results by understanding your hormones and menstrual cycle.
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Over these last few weeks of 2020 and early into the new year, the Embody Movement team will be doing 2021 reassessment consultations. These consultations will provide an opportunity for both yourself and your practitioner to set some goals for 2021 and set a firm focus for treatment.
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Cardio-respiratory health or ‘aerobic fitness’ determines how well your body can cope with increased physical demands. Poor fitness levels are often associated with conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancers. Therefore, improving your aerobic fitness should be at the top of your priorities for health and wellness.
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Moderate exercise is key when managing hypothyroidism but there is no one program that will work for everyone. Exercise needs to be tailored to your symptoms and how your body is feeling day-to-day. Alicea, our Exercise Physiologist, can help you exercise safely whilst managing symptoms.
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Metabolic Syndrome is a disease which is diagnosed by the presence of a group of symptoms. The more symptoms, the higher your risk of developing diabetes, stroke and heart disease. With good lifestyle choices, metabolic syndrome can be managed and reversed before the onset of more serious diseases.
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When it comes to your pregnancy, everyone has an opinion on what exercise you should or shouldn’t be doing. Research has changed a lot recently on what is considered safe during pregnancy. Exercise during pregnancy is good for you and it can help to maintain good health and prevent complications during pregnancy and birth.
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The idea of a ‘perfect’ posture is something many of aspire to, but what is perfect posture? Posture is not a single body position, but the way you move your body throughout the day. Our goal should be to move regularly through the day into various postures to prevent muscle aches, pain and stiffness.
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