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A comprehensive guide for students preparing for the stott pilates practical exam. It covers a wide range of common postural deviations and the corresponding exercises and techniques to address them. The guide includes detailed information on how to identify and correct issues such as elevated or depressed shoulders, knock knees, rotations, uneven shoulder heights, protracted or retracted scapulae, anterior pelvic tilt, kyphosis, lordosis, and more. Each condition is accompanied by a checklist of the relevant strengthening and stretching exercises to help students understand and apply the appropriate corrective measures. This document serves as a valuable resource for stott pilates students, offering them the knowledge and tools necessary to excel in their practical exam and develop a strong foundation in postural analysis and rehabilitation.
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Elevated Shoulders - ✔✔Strengthen Traps & Lats, do mid back & coordination Depressed Shoulders - ✔✔do arm circles, salute knock knee - ✔✔Work abductors Rotations - ✔✔strengthen obliques, Q.L. do mermaid with rotation on reformer, round back - work lateral fexion Shoulders 1 higher than the other - ✔✔balance scapula Protracted Scapula - ✔✔Open Elbows, Plow femur rotated - ✔✔if medially rotated work laterally, if laterally rotated work medially Protracted Scapula - ✔✔do airplane, back rowing preps Retracted Scapula - ✔✔do front rowing
Elbows Medially rotated - ✔✔Do side arm preps external rotation Anterior Pelvic Tilt - ✔✔Ab Flexion, Roll Up, Coordination Kyphosis Lordosis Define Posture - ✔✔Head forward, Cervical Spine Hyperextended, Scapulae abducted, Increased Flexion in Thoracic Soine, (Kyphosis) Lumbar Spine hyperextended (Lordosis), Pelvis Anteriorly Tilted, Hip Joints Flexed, Knee joints slightly hyperextended, slight plantar flexion How do you work Kyphosis Lordosis posture - ✔✔Pad under head for all supine exercises, cushion may be placed under feet to counteract lordosis in supine portion, work imprint as much as possible, Legs at Table top or over an arc barrel if hip flexors are grippig If Knees hyperextended work - ✔✔Hamstrings and gluts, Do bend and stretch and hip rolls Flat spots in spine - ✔✔work spinal articulations Humeri Medially Rotated - ✔✔side arm preps external rotation If Plantar Flexed, strengthen? What Exercises? - ✔✔Tibials Anterior, Heels on Bar & Lower and Lift If Dorsiflexed What Exercises? - ✔✔Toes Apart heels together, Wrap Toes If Dorsiflexed What Exercises? - ✔✔Toes Apart heels together, High Half Toe
Rib Cage Shifted - ✔✔Obliques, Erector Spinae any rotation work Excessive Flexion in Thoracic - ✔✔Breast Stroke Flat Cervical - ✔✔Back Extension, plow, Swan Dive Upward Rotated Scapula - ✔✔Work Lower Traps & rhomboids, Cadillac Arm Springs from above Hip Joints Flexed - ✔✔Lengthen hip flexors, shoulder bridge, hip rolls, swimming If Scapula Protracted - ✔✔Do Open Elbows and Airplane If Scapula Retracted - ✔✔Do Front Rowing and Leg Pull Front Winging - ✔✔Seratus Anterior, Front Rowing, Leg Pull Front, 1 arm push prone Posterior Pelvic Tilt - ✔✔Swan Dive and Down Stretch Anterior Tipped Scapula - ✔✔Strengthen Lower Traps, Stretch Pec., Offering, Swan Dive