Pilates And Breast Cancer Recovery

By Laura Anna Rapuzzi

The creation of this manual wants providing a practical guide through the Pilates method that helps patients with breast cancer to achieve complete psycho-physical recovery.
The benefits that are obtained through the application of the Pilates method are many and valid. They guide each patient on the path to recovering their daily quality of life. The improvement of the mobility of the operated side, the muscular rebalancing, the improvement of posture and breathing, are the main objectives that can be achieved with this planning. The manual is aimed at everyone, even non-professionals, and will provide guidelines to optimize the benefits of the method. For this reason we will present the inventor Joseph Pilates and the Michael King school, recognized all over the world. Knowing the principles on which the method is based is of fundamental importance to perform the exercises with precision, fluidity and effectiveness. The interested parties will also be treated at an anatomical level by exposing the fundamental notions to better understand the reason for the choice of exercises. In the final part of the manual we will discuss how with the Pilates method diversified work phases can be organized, useful for achieving full recovery. Starting from simple exercises with the application of the principles of the method and developing, in the subsequent phases, motor challenges, we will improve all skills: control, stability, mobility, strength and balance. The psychological, emotional side, as well as depression, will also benefit, thus offering a new, more positive, approach to life. Laura Rapuzzi, ISEF graduate with 110 cum laude, for 40 years in the world of fitness; university teacher in sports science, she has perfected in recent years with Michael King's MK Pilates school, with whom she collaborates as a referent in Italy for several courses. He will discuss the potential of the Pilates method as a recovery tool for those who have undergone breast surgery. Simone Zanelli, Motor Sciences Brescia has been in the fitness and Pilates sector for years, collaborating with the MK school of which he is tutor, he will develop together with Laura, the rehabilitation and functional part of Pilates applied to this series. In detail, Dr. Carol Pileggi, Emergency Doctor, specialist in Oncological Radiotherapy, as well as practitioner of the method and Pilates Instructor, will deal with the clinical aspects of breast cancer, from the anatomical constitution of the district concerned to the diagnosis to possible interventions based on the case and therapies, also touching the emotional as well as psychic sphere put to a severe test by the disease, whatever its evolution. Thank you for taking the time and getting ready to read this manual.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tektime
• Release date: Aug 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9788835416586

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Pilates Breast Cancer Recovery

Laura Rapuzzi

Pilates Breast Cancer Recovery

Laura Anna Rapuzzi

Dott.ssa Carol Pileggi

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INTRODUCTION

The creation of this manual is to give with Pilates method a practical guide that can help patients with breast cancer to achieve a complete psycho-physical recovery.

The benefits that you can get through the application of the Pilates method are many and valid. They guide each patient on the path to recovering their daily quality of life.

The improvement of the mobility of the part gone under surgery, the muscular rebalancing, the improvement of posture and breathing, are the main objectives that can be achieved with this planning.

The manual is aimed at everyone, even non-professionals, and will provide guidelines to optimize the benefits of the method. For this reason we will present the inventor Joseph Pilates and the Michael King school, recognized all over the world. Knowing the principles on which the method is based is very important to perform the exercises with precision, fluidity and effectiveness.

The interested parties will also be treated at an anatomical level by exposing the fundamental notions to better understand the reason for the choice of exercises. In the final part of the manual we will discuss how with the Pilates method diversified work phases can be organized, useful for achieving full recovery. Starting from simple exercises with the application of the principles of the method and developing, in the subsequent phases, motor challenges, we will improve all skills: control, stability, mobility, strength and balance.

The psychological, emotional side, as well as depression, will also benefit, thus offering a new, more positive, approach to life.

Laura Rapuzzi, ISEF graduate with 110 cum laude, for 40 years in the world of fitness; university teacher in sports science, she has perfected in recent years with Michael King’s MK Pilates school, with whom she collaborates as a referent in Italy for several courses. He will discuss the potential of the Pilates method as a recovery tool for those who have undergone breast surgery.

Simone Zanelli, Motor Sciences Brescia has been in the fitness and Pilates sector for years, collaborating with the MK school of which he is tutor, he will develop together with Laura, the rehabilitation and functional part of Pilates applied to this series.

In detail, Dr. Carol Pileggi, Emergency Doctor, specialist in Oncological Radiotherapy, as well as practitioner of the method and Pilates Instructor, will treat the clinical aspects of breast cancer, from the anatomical constitution of the district concerned to the diagnosis to the possible interventions based on the case and therapies, also touching the emotional as well as psychic sphere put to the test by the disease, whatever its evolution.

Thank you for taking the time and getting ready to read this manual.

PILATES METHOD

The Pilates method is an exercise system created by Joseph Hubertus Pilates in the 1920s. A program for the whole body, accentuating the mind / body relationship. The focus is on the movements that must be controlled, performed in a fluid and balanced way to have an improvement in strength, mobility, flexibility and coordination. The main difference between Pilates and other exercises is the approach to the method. Despite the multiple interpretations of the technique born since its creation, most Pilates lessons are performed in a way that allows professionals to approach the exercises with awareness.

JOSEPH HUBERTUS PILATES STORY

He was born in Mönchengladbach near Düsseldorf Germany in 1880. He was a frail and sickly child suffering from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. From the age of 14, he began to work so hard on his body that he became a model for an anatomical table. In 1912 he went to England. During this period he achieved some success as a boxer, gymnast, circus performer and self-defense coach for English detectives. During World War I in 1914 he was interned with other Germans in a camp of foreign enemies in Lancaster.

Later he was transferred to the Isle of Man where he became a nurse and worked with many inmates who suffered from infirmities and hardships left behind during wartime captivity. He became famous because when a terrible flu epidemic spread in 1918 killing millions of people around the world, thousands of them in England, none of Joseph’s followers died as they were in excellent physical shape. After the war Joseph returned to Germany where he began to train private clients and the Hamburg military police in self-defense and physical training.

In 1926 he was invited to train the new German army, but because he disapproved of the political direction of Germany, he decided to leave for the United States. During the journey he met Clara who became his life partner. Arriving in New York in 1926 Pilates opened a gym on 939 Eight Avenue, in the same building as several dance studios and rehearsal rooms. Not much is known about the early years of his work. In 1940 he became famous in the dancers community. In February 1956 the newspaper Dance wrote: Sooner or later, probably every dancer in New York and surely all the students of Jacob Pillow (American dance school) between 1939 and 1951 will humbly submit to Joe’s spirit of instruction. Pilates . In 1960 Pilates had many New York dancers among its clients. George Balanchine trained at Joe’s (as J. Pilates called). Balanchine invited Pilates to instruct her young New York City Ballet dancers. At this point Pilates was taking over the world outside of New York. As the New York Herald Tribune wrote in 1964: Hundreds of young students warm up daily with an exercise known to them as Pilates without knowing that it is actually the last name of a living man. While Joe was still alive only 2 of his students Carola Trier and Bob Seed had opened their studios. Trier had a long experience as a dancer and came to the United States by escaping from the Nazi camp in France working as a contortionist. She met Joe Pilates in 1940 when an injury prevented her from continuing her career. Joe Pilates helped Trier open his studio in the 1950s. They remained friends until Joe and Clara died.

With Bob Seed, however, it was another story. A former hockey player became enthusiastic about Pilates, opened his studio across town and tried to steal some of Joe’s clients thanks to the morning opening. According to John Steel, one day Joe showed up in Seed’s study with a gun and ordered Seed to leave and Seed left.

PILATES" SECOND GENERATION

When Joe died he left no will or successor to his work. Despite this his work remained. Clara continued to manage the Pilates studio on Eighth Avenue in New York where Romana Kryzanowska became the director in 1970. Kryzanowska studied with Joe and Clara in the early 1940s and after a 15 year hiatus in Peru she resumed her studies of the method.

Other students of Joe and Clara opened their centers. Ron Fletcher was Martha Graham’s dancer who studied with Joe in the 1940s to recover from chronic knee pain. Fletcher opened his