Effectiveness of Pilates exercises in sports  

作　　者：Aikaterini Pantelis Sivrika Efstratia Giannikou Georgios Kypraios Demetris Lamnisos George Georgoudis Dimitrios Stasinopoulos 

机构地区：[1]Department of Physiotherapy,University of West Attica,Egaleo 12243,Athens,Greece [2]Department of Health Sciences,School of Sciences,European University Cyprus,Nicosia 2404,Cyprus

出　　处：《World Journal of Meta-Analysis》2024年第4期56-59,共4页世界荟萃分析杂志（英文）

摘　　要：Participation in sports is spreading all around the world in an attempt of the community to stay active,healthy,prevent health issues and conditions and to ensure quality of life while there is life expectancy and population is getting more and more older.Existing protocols in rehabilitation are sometimes demanding and are addressed in athletes and people with good physical condition while population gets involved in recreational sports activities more and more.Sport injuries are very common not only in athletes but in general population as well.Pilates is a very popular type of exercise and industry around it is flourishing.Although there are indications that it could be used as an alternative in rehabilitation,research is limited in certain fields.The aim of this editorial is to motivate researchers to conduct well-designed studies in sports injuries’rehabilitation based on the Pilates method,to explore the efficacy of the method as a complementary approach and the optimal integration strategies in diverse sports rehabilitation settings.Last but not least,it is an attempt for the need of the community to establish certification on Clinical Pilates Physiotherapists based on the principles of rehabilitation.

关 键 词：Sports injuries REHABILITATION PILATES 

分 类 号：R587.1[医药卫生—内分泌]