Our Physiotherapists have many years of clinical experience. We treat sports and dance injuries, work injuries, back and neck pain.
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About Us
Jenny Birckel B. App. Sci. (Phty)
Jenny has been a physiotherapist for over 25years. She is an APA sports physiotherapist and has worked with Pilates since the early 1990s introducing this type of strengthening to the dance schools that she works with.
Jenny has worked with a wide range of sports- rugby, soccer, netball, gymnastics, cricket, track and field.
Jenny also has a special interest in Worksite injury, treatment and prevention.
Linsay Rogers B.Phty (Hons)
Linsay qualified at the University of Heartfordshire in the UK in 2001 with an honours degree. Linsay has a keen interest for the field of musculoskeletal physiotherapy and regularly attends courses to continue her professional development and keep up to date with the latest evidence based practice.
Linsay also has extensive skills in managing clients with hemiplegia and paralysis as she has trained in Bobath Neurological Rehabilitation.
As an added asset to her excellent manual therapy skills, Linsay also combines the use of Accupuncture and muscle energy techniques. Linsay has worked in a number of pracitces in the public and private sectors in the UK New Zealand and is now a permanent resident of Australia.
A fully equipped Pilates exercise studio now accessible to those on Brisbane’s inner east side. Physiotherapy designed Clinical Pilates programmes for:-
- Injury rehabilitation
- Back pain
- Neck pain
- Postural correction
- Sports injuries
- Dance injuries
- Sports performance enhancement
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis- balance, strength and falls prevention
- Pregnancy exercises – antenatal and post natal
- Post surgical Rehabilitation
About Pilates
What is Clinical Pilates - Our Pilates is practiced by physiotherapists using traditional Pilates techniques combined with contemporary scientific knowledge and research. Pilates is suitable for all ages from 8-80 years and all level of activity.
We are Dance and Sport specialists offering individual assessments in order to create a personal program of specific exercises to correct muscle imbalances, rehabilitate an injury or refine a particular technique or skill.
Pilates is a form of exercise named after its founder Joseph Pilates. Joseph, being a German national living in England, was interned in a prisoner of war camp during WW1. He had a strong interest in physical exercise so he set about trying to assist injured prisoners with rehabilitation of their injuries. He resorted to using springs from hospital beds for gentle resistance exercises. The traditional Pilates Trapeze table (also called the Cadillac) resembles closely a typical old fashioned traction bed.
After the war Joseph moved to New York and further developed his ideas opening a studio in close proximity to many dance studios. He worked here until his death in 1967.
How is Pilates applicable to today’s exercise?
Joseph Pilates’ recognised the importance of using the inner core muscles – he called these the “powerhouse” and recognised the importance of continuous light contraction of these muscles during exercise and activity.
Today’s modern research into back pain and the cause of this is continuing to reinforce his philosophies, as researchers are finding weakness and poor firing patterns in the deep spinal stabilizing musculature. Transverse abdominals and multifidis are often the cause of back pain when performing manual handling tasks. Poor outcomes after back pain and recurrent episodes of back pain have also been found to be closely related to insufficient rehabilitation and ongoing weakness in the core.
What is Clinical Pilates?
Clinical Pilates is the application of Pilates based exercises by physiotherapists.
As movement and musculoskeletal injury specialists we assess a client in detail to determine the cause of their pain and disability and design personalised programmes to strengthen, mobilize and often retrain their movements.
What’s the difference between Pilates Matwork and Pilates Studio equipment exercise?
Matwork can offer a great workout and can be utilized for big group classes and home exercise programmes.
Studio equipment however offers a wider variety of safe early rehabilitative exercises as it is “closed chain” exercise (the arms and legs are in contact with equipment). More precision and control is achieved by the client. Equipment can also offer very advanced exercises and is now utilized by many elite sportsmen and women to gain that training edge or to rehabilitate from sports injuries.
Pilates can offer well over 250 different exercises between the various pieces of apparatus.
Back pain and Pilates
Acute back pain
It has been shown by researchers that latent firing patterns and weakness in deep stabiliser muscles frequently accompany a serious episode of back pain. It is imperative that rehabilitation of back pain, whether it is work related or from sport or other causes, should include strengthening exercises commenced as soon as possible after the injury.
Pilates can offer very gentle strengthening exercises performed in a neutral spine (no flexing or extending), and these can be commenced with physiotherapy supervision even while mild pain is present.
Chronic back pain
We assess thoroughly the underlying weaknesses, tight musculature and most probable cause of the ongoing back pain. Retraining of the transverse abdominal and multifidis muscles together with addressing other issues identified will assist greatly in back pain management.
Posture and Pilates
Poor posture can be the cause of neck pain, headaches and back pain. Overcoming postural problems frequently requires supervised exercises with feedback about the correct posture, combined with strengthening the weak muscles that should maintain the improved posture.
Joint issues
Hip, knee, ankle, and shoulder injuries frequently require strengthening and retraining of the muscles that support these joints. For many clients they can perform a simple home programme and return to full function. More complex injuries may require closer supervision and more specificity in their exercise programme. We can offer carefully supervised programmes specific to the rehabilitation of your injury.
Sports injuries and Pilates
Once the secret training weapon of dancers, Pilates has now been embraced by many athletes to get that training ‘edge’ over the opposition and to rehabilitate from injury. Athletes are finding that Pilates can assist their performance. Sports ranging from football to cricket, swimming to athletics utilizes Pilates for training, rehabilitation and correcting imbalances.
Pilates and Dance
When Joseph Pilates moved to New York he established his exercise studio close to a number of dance studios. Many dancers became his clients, recognising the benefits of the strengthening to their dance performance and finding that Pilates was a great form of rehabilitation, should they have an injury. Choreographers and dancers such as Balanchine and Martha Graham were fascinated with his techniques and sent their dancers to him for rehabilitation.
Pilates naturally designed a lot of his exercises around his dance clientele. Many of the traditional Pilates exercises are very dance specific.
Our staff have many years of expertise in dance injury assessment and effective treatment regimes for dance injuries. Jennifer has worked with QDSE since 1991and provides annual dance assessments to QDSE and ADPI.
Performance Enhancement
Peak performance requires a strong well balanced body. We can provide a detailed assessment of your strengths, weaknesses and joint ranges and design a Pilates programme specific to you to improve any areas that are weak and tight. Your programme will be dance specific and challenging.
Injury treatment
When an Injury happens
● Acute Injuries – if you sustain an injury, immediately apply ice, compression and elevation. We recommend treatment commence within the first 48 hours. We try to prioritize dancers who need an appointment so they can get the early treatment they need. Having a dance injury doesn’t always necessitate that you stop dancing but professional guidance about what exercises you need to strengthen and rehabilitate, together with guidance about dance levels is important.
● Chronic dance injuries - treating more than just the pain is imperative in slow onset or recurrent injuries .These injuries usually require a detailed understanding of dance technique and a thorough analysis of musculoskeletal factors that could be contributing to the injury. Our physiotherapists have an in depth understanding of dance technique and can analyse whether your form is causing your injury.
Injury Rehabilitation
We can expedite your return to dance with physiotherapy treatment and graded strengthening exercises.
Dance Assessments
These are detailed musculoskeletal assessments of joint ranges, strengths and weaknesses. This assists the dancer to understand areas on which they need to focus to attain the most from their body. Strengthening programs to address these issues can be designed.
We can also complete dance assessment forms for tertiary dance institutes.
Osteoporosis and balance
We can offer safe supervised programmes with progressive bone loading and a strong emphasis on balance and falls prevention for clients experiencing bone density issues. There is no age limit on Pilates. Many clients in their 70s and 80s happily do Pilates and find that they have better balance and mobility than their peers.
Flexibility, agility and balance are all considered and challenged at a level that the individual can undertake. Falls prevention research is showing that balance starts to deteriorate after the age of 40. If you don’t use it you lose it.
Menu & Prices
How much does it cost?
To develop an effective programme for you, we need to assess your strengths, weaknesses and muscular tightness.
Session 1 commences with a detailed Musuloskeletal Assessment.
Your history of injury and pain together with activity level is taken. You are then thoroughly assessed to determine joint and muscle tightness, habitual postures and muscular weakness. At this assessment we take time to assess and train you to recruit weak muscles that are contributing to your dysfunction and discuss the issues and the goals we would like you to achieve with your programme.
An individualised programme is then developed based on our findings.
Cost $125.00
Session 2-4 or as required
Fully supervised one on one exercise sessions.
$95.00
In these sessions one of our physiotherapists will take you through the programme that has been individually designed for you and start to familiarize you with the equipment and exercise. We work with you individually for a few sessions until you have some idea of the exercises.
Ongoing sessions- supervised group sessions.
After the one on one sessions, you progress to a supervised group situation where one of our staff supervises the exercises assisting when ever you cannot remember the exercise and correcting technique as necessary. You are working on the specific programme designed for you. The maximum number in the supervised group is 6.
You are reassessed on a regular basis and the programmes are upgraded as you are improving in your core and peripheral strength and mobility.
$37.00 per session.
10 visit passes ($260) and monthly passes ($240) are also available.
NEW! 10 Visit Matwork Pilates Pass $170
We also are now offering a general Pilates matwork pass for everyone looking to improve general posture, core strength and flexibility.
We treat and rehabilitate clients covered by Insurance bodies including:
- Private health funds – extras cover
- Work Cover
- Veterans Affairs
- Motor vehicle accident (CTP)
Rebates for Pilates
Health fund rebates
Private health funds contribute some of the cost of our Pilates under the physiotherapy schedule. We have HICAPS available.
Work Cover
We offer acute, hands on, early physiotherapy treatment for Workcover clients.
For clients who require strengthening and return to work after the acute phase, we can assess you and forward a provider management plan to Workcover proposing a plan for supervised rehabilitation sessions. Work hardening and manual handling training and correction will be included in these sessions for workers returning to manual work.
High level “core control’ is pushed in the rehab of the injured manual worker
Medicare Enhanced Primary care plans
Clients who are eligible for this coverage can benefit greatly from education about physical exercise and from the strengthening effects of Pilates training.
Veterans Affairs
For the older client maintaining mobility and independence is paramount. Veterans’ affairs clients with balance and pain issues are generally covered for Physiotherapy Supervised Pilates sessions, if referred by a medical practitioner.
CTP
If you have experienced a Motor vehicle accident and have a doctor’s referral we can assess your treatment requirements and negotiate with your CTP insurer about coverage for the treatment plan.
Not Just Pilates
Our physiotherapists are all well qualified to treat injuries and offer expertise in sports and work injuries. Our treatment is hands on and may include:
- Spinal Mobilizations
- Joint mobilizations
- Deep tissue massage and trigger point treatment
- Dry needling and Western acupuncture
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Antenatal Classes, Physiotherapy, Pilates, Sports Injury Therapy
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