Talk:Pilates

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In the opening paragraph, please replace "contrology" with "controlology."

File:Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Google ngrams lists both spellings as approximately equal, but Joseph Pilates himself seems to have spelled it the shorter way. PianoDan (talk) 18:54, 19 January 2024 (UTC)

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The introductory section says that Pilates "has not been shown to be an effective treatment for any medical condition".

However the section on Effectiveness says: "From the limited data available, it would seem from the statistically and clinically significant findings that Pilates has demonstrated efficacy as a tool for the rehabilitation of a wide range of conditions," citing as a source the paper "Is pilates an effective rehabilitation tool? A systematic review" by Byrnes, Wu and Whillier, from the Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies.

Is this a contradiction? Or is there a distinction between different types of "condition"? I.e. are some of the conditions for which Pilates is an effective rehabilitation not "medical conditions"? Or is the Byrnes/Wu/Whillier paper working with a different definition of "effectiveness", e.g. that pilates is better than no exercise (but perhaps no better than other kinds of exercise)?

I think it would help to clarify these points, as right now it seems like a confusing summary of the effectiveness of Pilates. Thank you! 152.115.215.118 (talk) 15:53, 4 March 2025 (UTC)

The model in the image is not demonstrating 'all fours' - all fours has all four limbs on the floor. She's performing a variation, sometimes called 'bird dog'. 203.158.41.232 (talk) 00:49, 4 May 2025 (UTC)