Injury Recovery

The Body Gallery always encourages a healthy recovery from an injury, please have your doctor’s consent before beginning any kind of exercise routine.

For clients amid injury recovery, such as knee/hip or back, or with chronic conditions, such as scoliosis and repetitive stress syndromes, The Body Gallery can focus on specific areas of concern and redirect overcompensating muscle groups to provide a healthy balance and ease in your body. Injury recovery requires patience, deep focus to the details of how your body works and commitment. In time you will re-gain your mobility and flexibility, transform your body's alignment and posture to optimal strength and help to prevent re-injury.

Pilates focuses on core strengthening, balance, and flexibility, some of the same principles used in the recovery of many common injuries, it conditions the body from head to toe with a no-to-low-impact method compatible for all ages and abilities. We attentively guide you through exercises and the use of the Pilates machines to rebuild, retrain and renew your body, teaching you how to undo the stress of the injury and have balance in your body.

When you are injured, getting individualized instruction will provide a safer environment for supporting your recovery. Proper guidance on the Pilates movements will aid your effort, and also provide knowledge of movements to avoid that may further aggravate your injury. This will allow the scope of your Pilates training to increase gradually over time until full health is restored to your body.