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Have you tried Pilates to improve your mobility? When my wife and I tried it, a few years ago, I thought that it was sort of like doing yoga stretches using exercise equipment. It felt good and, for the short time that I did keep it up, Pilates seemed to improve my flexibility, somewhat.
Pilates is a stretching and exercise program focusing on trunk muscles, and there’s plenty of evidence that, in healthy folks, it improves flexibility, balance and muscle endurance. But not many studies have examined whether people with MS receive the same benefits. One of them was done by researchers at Izmi University in Turkey and published, last March, in the Journal of Physical Therapy Science.
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