Pilates & Hydrotherapy Gold Coast

Pilates and hydrotherapy are both wonderful ways of maintaining or improving your body tone and core musculature without strenuous resistance exercise machines. At Hinterland Physiotherapy we offer personal Nerang Pilates assessments, hydrotherapy sessions and exercise programs for one to two persons. Pilates and hydrotherapy is also used as an adjunct to other treatment. They are especially helpful for older people and new mums to help regain their body tone without risking muscle injuries.

So what is Pilates?

Pilates concentrates on the core postural muscles, which supports your spine and gives you that extra support to keep your body evenly balanced.

The Pilates exercise will teach you to be attentive of your breathing and spinal alignment to strengthen your deep, core muscles. Light resistance exercises tone and strengthen the body and the stretches promote flexibility, providing the full body workout.

What is Hydrotherapy?

Hydrotherapy uses warm water (35°C) to facilitate muscle and joint activity and movement. Immersion in a warm water pool allows great freedoms to joint movements that have been affected by pain, arthritis, surgery or stroke. By decreasing the effects of gravity on the joint, exercising becomes less painful and you can build up more strength.

Hinterland Physiotherapy conducts hydrotherapy sessions in the Hydrotherapy pool at Allamanda Hospital, Spendelove St in Southport. The Physiotherapist gets in to the pool with the patient to conduct the sessions, enabling one on one treatments focusing on rehabilitating the injured joint as well as the whole body. Sessions last for half an hour.

The benefit of hydrotherapy exercise in a pool and the use of Pilates equipment exercising

• Development of core muscle strengthening
• Develops better posture
• Improves abdominal wall strength to control that ‘tummy bulge’
• Improves upper and lower limb strength and control
• Excellent exercise for all age groups
• Exercises are tailored to the individuals capabilities
• Non weight bearing exercises help those with arthritic pain when weight bearing
• Improves your balance

Nerang Pilates and Hydrotherapy

Our Nerang Pilates exercises and hydrotherapy sessions help many people, including those who have

• Acute and chronic back pain
• Pre and Post operative back or orthopaedic surgery (hip, knee and shoulder (replacements, reconstructions)
• Weakness in the neck, shoulders, trunk, upper and lower limbs
• The elderly, who are having difficulty with maintaining general body strength and balance
• Those who want a workout without lifting heavy weights at a gym
• Excellent rehabilitation for injured dancers