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Hernia Repair Outcomes

This article is a comprehensive retrospective review of ventral hernia repair outcomes performed at one facility in the USA.

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Clinical Pilates in Practice: Biomechanics & The Formation of Nervous Tissue

This review is a critical assessment of recent advances in the utilization of mechanical stimuli towards exploiting nervous tissue growth and formation. The authors discuss current in vitro systems designed to restate the mechanical environment of developing neural tissues, and the advancements made in integrating these systems into the clinical setting.

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Sleep & Motor Memory Consolidation

This meta-analysis compared the effect of sleep gain on motor memory consolidation between sleep and wake groups. The mechanisms by which sleep helps to consolidate motor memory are not fully understood, and further research is still needed in this field.

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Biokinetic Analysis of the Foot & Ankle

This literature review argues that clinically we need to observe functional - rather than conventional - biomechanics at the ankle and foot. Functional biomechanics observes that all segments in a joint can be simultaneously mobile.

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Anatomy Review: Iliocapsularis & Other Muscles of the Hip Capsule

An informal poll of our colleagues has concluded that no-one knew that the iliocapsularis muscle existed until two days ago… This got us thinking about other muscles of the hip that insert into the joint capsule, and their role in hip function and movement dysfunction.

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Clinical Pilates in Practice: Learning Styles Neuromyth

The concept of learning styles has long been debunked, and yet they persist in all educational communities. This paper outlines why it is difficult to use theories of learning styles in practice: "the same term means different things to different teachers."

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Neurodynamics & Clinical Pilates

Integrating neural mobility exercises into functional movements and clinical Pilates practice can have multiple benefits, regardless of whether a client is displaying neural mechanosensitivity: all tissues in the body need to move!

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