Unite Health - APPI Pilates Roll down

Watch and learn about Unite Health's APPI Pilates roll down exercise. A great exercise to use as an assessment tool while you are teaching Clinical Pilates both online and face to face. 

The aim of this exercise is to mobilise the spine into flexion and to train movement control from the full flexion to upright standing position, and retrain upright posture. This is a great exercise to use as an assessment tool and objective marker while you are teaching online or face to face APPI Pilates.

• Standing upright back of the neck long and arms resting by your side.
• Inhale to prepare
• Exhale and roll the spine forwards.
• Sending the rib cage back
• Roll down vertebrae by vertebrae
• Creating a deep c shape of the spine
• Keep the head, neck and arms loose throughout
• Go down as far as you feel comfy.
• Inhale and hold the stretch, keep the knees soft.
• Encourage the body weight to remain balanced evenly through the feet.
• Exhale, restack the spine vertebrae by vertebrae starting with the pelvis.
• Repeat 3-6 times.

This is a great exercise to use as an assessment tool and objective marker while you are teaching online or face to face.

Side on:

1. 1. Is there movement at the spine or a hinge at the hip?
   2. Does the rib travel back (retract - anterior tilt) or is there a flare (posterior tilt)?
   3. Does the pelvis travel back during the flexion?
   4. What’s happening at the knee’s? Is there a bend or hyperextension?

To find out more about APPI Pilates Instructor courses in Australia head to our APPI Clinical Pilates course page. Here you will find a range of Pilates courses, both face to face and online, perfect for allied health professionals. 

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