Young Enabled Stroke Survivors and their quality of life has recently received much needed attention from the medical community. A huge portion of young Australian stroke survivors have unfulfilled needs across health, everyday living, leisure activities, employment and finance. Moreover, young stroke survivors have lower levels of physical activity in community-living, when compared to young adults with other chronic health conditions involving the musculoskeletal or cardiovascular systems. One of our team member recognised this need and decided to take up this area as a research project as a part of her Physio degree.
This project mainly focused on improving the quality of life of Young Enabled Stroke Survivors (YESS) through Clinical Pilates.
As part of the project our Physio Clinic in Adelaide and UniSA partnered together to provide a practical exercise session for a number of young stroke survivors to help demonstrate the effectiveness of Clinical Pilates and evaluate the barriers to community exercise participation and identifying the knowledge gaps for Health Professionals to provide better access to this health service.
The group clinical pilates sessions were held in the pilates studio in Adelaide in which Mukul and our physio team developed individualised programs for a number of YESS participants.
The feedback was very positive and the session opened our eyes to how stroke survivors can benefit from a customised exercise program, such as Clinical Pilates. We are incorporating this approach into our ongoing treatment portfolio.
We were extremely glad to have been able to be a part of this amazing project.
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