Exercise Programmes
Exercise Programmes
At Edgecliff physiotherapy we particularly encourage our patients to participate in ‘therapeutic exercise’ because we know it is a successful adjunct in effectively treating and preventing an array of diseases and injuries.
As part of your clinic treatment programme your treating therapist will prescribe certain exercises to optimally complement your manual treatment.
However, we also understand that motivation and compliance can be a problem and that many of our clients find it difficult to remember ‘how’ to properly perform their exercises. This is not surprising in view of the fact that rather than ‘needing to be stronger’, research is increasingly demonstrating that people with spinal pain and related pain disorders actually have more difficulty organising and controlling movement.
Accordingly, to meet our client’s needs, we offer specialized supervised exercise therapy programmes with the option of participating in:
- Therapeutic exercise classes in a small group learning environment and/or
- One on one exercise therapy sessions
Learn more about Exercise Therapy and “The Key Moves™” Programme conducted by Edgecliff Physiotherapy Centre
1. Therapeutic Exercise Classes
The Key Moves™ Programme of Therapeutic Exercise and Movement Classes
If you keep doing the same thing you will get the same results
This saying can be painfully true for people with recurrent spinal pain and related disorders.
You can stop the cycle with the help of our classes. Our studies have shown that people’s problems are reflected in the way they move, so we tackle the underlying cause by helping you re-train your body to move more naturally and stop habits that have led to pain.
Daily clinical experience also shows us that people are often doing exercise and fitness programs that are adding to their problems.
We have developed the Key Moves™ therapeutic exercise and movement classes to help you get it right. You will learn how to change your movement patterns and develop awareness of how your body is meant to move.
We teach you simple but effective ways to overcome bad posture and breathing habits, healthy ways of stretching and strengthening and the correct way to position your body in daily activities such as sitting, bending and lifting.
The results can be impressive. Patients from teenagers to people in their 80s are finding significant and lasting benefits from the classes.
Index
What happens in the classes?
How long is the programme?
Who can attend?
Location
Enrolment
Policy
Class Levels
Basis of the programme
Dates and timetable
What happens in the classes?
Classes are an hour long and kept to a maximum of around 10 people.
They are conducted by therapists from our practice who have undergone substantial training in the method.
The mat-work sessions involve a combination of floor exercises and antigravity sequences building upon these. Participants wear loose comfortable clothing preferably with bare feet. Mats, pillows, bolsters and other equipment is provided.
The class therapist will monitor you to see you are doing the exercises properly and will have been informed by your treating therapist of any things you should avoid.
How long is the programme?
People attend weekly for the full term. These run as for the public school terms and range between 9 and 11 weeks’ duration.
Classes are conducted at 3 levels – introductory, level 1 and level 2 (see details below)
Once they have learnt the basics, some people attend several classes a week, others have been doing classes for years as a basic routine that helps them manage their problem and stay pain-free.
Who can attend?
Classes are attended on the recommendation of your treating therapist. Anyone wishing to attend who is not a current patient must first be assessed by one of our therapists.
The classes are suitable for people of any age, with any level of fitness. They can also be done by those who have restricted movement due to injury or musculoskeletal problems.
Location
The classes are conducted in our newly refurbished exercise studio upstairs at 4/212 New South Head Road Edgecliff – across the road from the Eastpoint centre.
Enrolment
Enrolment in the classes is for the whole term and occurs prior to term commencement.
We endeavour to provide an array of class times to suit the needs of most people, so booking early will ensure your preferred time and day.
Our programme is about change. By enrolling in the classes you are subscribing to a specialised programme of exercises. These develop from week to week in a structured manner over the term, and are taught by the same therapist. Class numbers are limited to ensure adequate supervision.
Costs are $27.50 per class – $275 per 10 week term or $302.50 per 11 week term (discounted to $24.75 if you attend two classes a week). This is payable before term commencement to secure your place.
The amount of health fund reimbursement varies between health funds.
Policy
We really care about helping you achieve the best results possible. To optimise the benefits from class attendance we have made some changes in our class policy:
We require payment for the whole term before term commencement to secure your place in your class.
Because we have a waiting list of people wanting to get into most classes we cannot hold your place unless you enrol for the whole term.
We understand that situations arise which are unavoidable, however we do not credit or refund missed classes.
However dedicated ‘make up classes’ are now available on Tuesdays at 11.00 and Saturdays at 9.00. You need to inform the clinic of your inability to attend your usual class to enable a booking in a makeup class. These are filled on a first in first served basis hence we cannot guarantee available spaces in these classes. We usually conduct a few ‘holiday classes’ at various times over the term break and these can also be used as make up classes. Makeup classes are not transferrable between terms.
To enrol, contact Nicole Crompton at the main reception by phone 9326 1168 or fax 9328 1695.
What happens at each level?
Introductory level
This initial level has a high education component to help you understand about, and experience selectively moving your body in ways that you will not be used to. This will include awareness of a ‘neutral spine’, proper ‘core control’ and ‘breath control’ which contribute towards the foundation control necessary for more healthy stability and strength in our movement system You are in some respects relearning how to move and also control ‘key’ regions – you will be relearning to move from the inside out and exercising your brain as much as your brawn!
Level one
This follows on from the introductory level with some content repetition as well as adding some increased challenge in controlling movement. Those of you with more entrenched problems will feel happier to stay in this level.
Level two
Participants in this level will have progressed from the level one classes or, in some circumstances enter directly from the preliminary module. The challenge to correct exercise and movement performance continues……
The basis of the programme
The incidence of musculoskeletal pain – back and neck pain and related problems such as hip knee and shoulder pain, is increasing as our lifestyles have become more sedentary yet stressful.
We have generally adapted to this change with an altered response to our environment in the way our brain controls our posture and movements. Some muscles don’t work enough and others fire up too much – and then they habitually keep working that way. The issue is not necessarily one of ‘stretch’ and ‘strength’ but how we move. The solution is to ‘retrain the brain’ so that we move in a more healthy way.
We have observed that people with back and neck pain and related problems not only move differently, but also in predictably common patterns.
Accordingly, in being able to better describe ‘what’s wrong’, we have been able to develop this programme as a more specialised and tailored exercise resource for people suffering from spinal pain and related disorders. The programme is physiotherapy based and also draws on evidence from relevant scientific research; aspects of Pilates, Feldenkrais and Iyengar yoga and the influence of other respected thinkers who have helped increase our understanding of function.
Who developed it?
The Key Moves™ classes are based on the latest scientific research, extensive clinical research and clinical practical experience of Josephine Key and members of her team.
To learn more, we recommend you read the articles by our therapists on specific issues.
Dates and times
Classes are run in 9-11 week terms in tandem with the public school terms
Term 1: 30/01/2012 - 05/04/2012 Term 2: 30/04/2012 – 29/06/2012 Term 3: 16/07/2012 – 21/09/2012 Term 4: 08/10/2012 – 14/12/2012
See Class Timetable details here.
2. Individual Exercise Therapy Sessions
Find out about our exercise physiologist
At Edgecliff physiotherapy we particularly encourage our patients to participate in exercise as we believe it is a successful adjunct in effectively treating and preventing an array of diseases and injuries.
However it is important that the kind of exercise performed is appropriate to that person’s particular needs.
The Key Moves ™ Programme of Therapeutic Exercise has been developed to specifically address the more common movement difficulties encountered in people with spinal pain and related musculoskeletal pain syndromes.
But the question is “how do you then integrate your ‘Key Moves’ into everyday life and an exercise program with the assurance that you are doing it correctly and safely”.
To help you with this we are delighted to announce that Sherston Sheridan is joining our team. Sherston is an Exercise Physiologist with an added dimension – she integrates the principles of The Key Moves™ Programme of Therapeutic Exercise into a more dynamic setting. She has also worked as a yoga teacher and is a massage therapist.
If you are wondering what an exercise physiologist is, they are professionals from within the field of exercise science who are specialists in health and fitness and exercise rehabilitation, with the knowledge to ensure that exercise is prescribed in a safe and effective way to both healthy and clinical populations.
Sherston is available for one on one exercise re-education sessions directed around:
- Training for health and wellness programmes
- Functional Fitness programmes
- Exercise programmes for those with special needs
- Functional rehabilitation programmes to facilitate injured workers return to work
- Pre and Post-natal exercise
Her application of the Key Moves™ principles into her tailored exercise programmes means that there is a strong preventative as well as rehabilitative focus in her sessions
Venues for 1 on 1 sessions:
- In our dedicated exercise studio at 4/212 New South Head Rd Edgecliff
- A visit to your gym to confer with your trainer about your particular needs
- In an outdoors setting
To receive more information about this service or to make a booking for Sherston please call the main clinic reception on 93261168
