The Mental Health Benefits of Pilates
ThirdAge
The Pilates exercise program can have a positive mental effect on people living with chronic conditions. Researchers looked at 15 women and seven men to determine what benefits they got from Pilates. The participants, age 36 to 83, suffered from a …

The Pilates Movement Studio opens in Westlake
austin360 (blog)
Joseph Pilates, a former gymnast who had suffered from asthma as a child, developed his fitness program after using hospital beds and other equipment to help rehabilitate soldiers injured during World War I. He later used similar techniques to help …

The power of pilates
This is Hull and East Riding
Pilates was invented by Joseph Pilates, to help with his own poor health after he suffered from rickets as a child, while a prisoner of war. Pilates was adapted for injured dancers' rehabilitation and then when realising how effective it was, used as …

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What Pilates can do for you
Live Pilates
If you are looking for Pilates classes in Blackburn, you might want to know a little about how and why it exists. Pilates has been around since the beginning of the last century, and was created by a man called Joseph Pilates. Joseph suffered from many …