Clinical Pilates in Practice: Pelvic Floor Muscle Training for Stress Urinary Incontinence (December 2020)

For motor learning tasks, analogies are usually given as a single biomechanical metaphor. This study demonstrates how analogies can influence motor kinematics and task outcome.

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.

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."

By no means a thorough or robust study, we are including this one because of our belief in evidence-informed practice, and this paper does serve as a reminder of the importance of the diaphragm for postural control.

Researchers used a musculoskeletal model to predict joint contact forces and investigate the variations of joint contact forces due to joint impairment in 18 juvenile idiopathic arthritis patients.

This paper discusses the mechanisms involved in bone pain during cancer and reviews the recommended treatment methods.

This small study of healthy volunteers explored differences in the coronal biomechanics of the trunk, pelvis, hip, and knee joints, as well as gluteus medius muscle activity during walking and step down tasks.

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!

This small study contributes to the body of literature linking motor imagery and motor learning.

This is a systematic review of 50 papers looking at how biomechanical changes during pregnancy will affect quality of life in this population.

This study compared various measures of lumbar trunk stability with a previously described unstable sitting task

This commentary encourages the study of mobility both as a potential explanation for different motor control strategies and as a useful concept for comparing otherwise seemingly disparate musculoskeletal systems.

This was a small study gauging the influence of footwear on motor coordination, and thus results are not transferable across populations.

This literature review examined the neurological implications of shoulder dislocation.

Previous research has demonstrated that mirror neurons play an important role in learning; action observation training or motor imagery practice is based on this mechanism.

This review of auditory motion is a fascinating look at how we are able to perceive the motion of objects, even as our bodies (and heads) are constantly moving.

Although this is a small study, the paper contributes to our knowledge base around the gait variations that are seen in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Guidelines for managing rheumatoid arthritis consistently recommend exercise to support and maintain joint function.

The subtalar joint is a complex articulation that is often overlooked clinically, frequently ignored in favour of talocrural and midfoot mobility.