While walking or playing a sport, your ankle suddenly rolls inwards, and you feel excruciating pain, shortly afterwards, your ankle swells up. You start limping for a few weeks, the pain gradually disappears, and you think everything is back to normal. Sadly, “normal” might not be the case. 

Around 20% of acute ankle sprains turn into chronic ankle instability, due to the damage to the motion sensors within the ligaments, and the subsequent strength deficits.

Here are some examples of exercises from our multiple programs: 

1. Swiss ball kneel

 

2.Single leg stands on balance boards. 

 

3. Single leg deadlifts. 

 

4. Jump and one leg land.

5. Single leg sit-backs.

 

Our team of specialists at Osteopathic Health Centre urges people who have sprained their ankles in the past or looking to prevent ankle injuries in the first place to get an assessment of ankle strength, balance, stability, and tissue integrity, through standardized tests that are tailored for various goals and needs.

Reach out to us at OHC for ankle screening and rehabilitation programs.

“If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old; if it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”  -J. Pilates

Would you like to move with greater ease & efficiency, be more active, and less prone to injury? Do you suffer from poor posture? Back pain? A knee or ankle injury? Want to improve strength? Repair & recover pelvic floor post-pregnancy? 

Our weekly therapeutic Pilates classes focus on posture, core strengthening, balance, breathing, flexibility and a fascial release approach.  Class size is small so that exercises are specific to individual needs, and the main goal is to help activate targeted muscles for a safe return to optimal physical capacity.

In the sessions you will learn & develop the ‘the Basic 10’ Classical Pilates moves and healthy tips to help you:

• strengthen the deep abdominal and spinal muscles 
• alleviate back/joint pain
• create space in the joints and spine especially to help avoid compression of the spine
• develop postural awareness & understand the correct hip pelvic alignment for natural healthy movement
• open the chest and strengthen the upper back to help ease pain in the shoulders and neck
• deep and healthy Pilates breathing to increase lung capacity and effective oxygen circulation
• Increased stability in ankle joints and foot arches, and thereby increased stability and alignment of knee joints 

Start your mornings feeling stronger, calmer and walking a little taller in these weekly classes that are energising, fun, safe and healing.

At OHC, we offer both Pilates classes and one-on-one sessions with our partners at Phoenix Rising. 

Classes take place Wednesdays 8:45-9:45am (9am-10am during Ramadan), private one-on-one sessions by appointment.

For more information, contact Kirsty: kirsty@phoenix-rising.me

Mobile: 050-4298148 or book by calling OHC on 04-3487366

Website: www.phoenixrising.ae

Ramadan & Eid promotion: bring along a friend to Wednesday Pilates class for free. Pay AED85 only for one person when 2 friends attend. Valid to 12th June only.