ACTIVE ARTHRITIS:
Common Conditions & Protocols to Stay Fit!
Sunday March 23rd, 2025
9:00-10:30am (Los Angeles)
Staying active with arthritis can significantly improve joint mobility, reduce pain, and enhance overall well-being. As Pilates Instructors, we will encounter various types of arthritic clients throughout our career. How do we safely and effectively work with arthritic conditions in various areas of the body and help ourselves or our clients move better and live better? Matt McCulloch, Co-Founder of Kinected and Co-Director of the Kane School, will brilliantly help you build confidence in this Classtermind.
What’s Up Inside:
🔍 Reduce Pain and Inflammation: We’ll discuss exercises that minimize joint stress while improving circulation and reducing stiffness, helping to manage pain and swelling.
💡 Improve Range of Motion: Understand the benefits of mobility exercises to maintain or increase flexibility in the affected joints, preventing them from becoming stiffer and limiting movement.
🌐 Strengthen Surrounding Muscles: Apply strength protocols to the muscles around the affected joints to better support and stabilize and alleviate strain on the joints.
📝 Enhance Functional Movement: Ensure that exercises mimic real-life movements, improving the client’s ability to perform activities of daily life!
This Classtermind is part lecture AND part movement and instructor skill building, so come ready to learn AND MOVE so you can take these concepts back to the studio and apply them immediately.
What You Get:
- Supplementary materials and session handout for tracking along with video.
- Full recording to the LIVE session (once complete) and 90 minutes of content with Matt.
- This live session comes with 1.5 NPCP CECs
- Indefinite access inside this course ticket! Come back anytime to review.
This session ALSO comes with 1.5 NPCP CECs, so don’t miss this one-of-a-kind opportunity to train with an expert on this topic.
ACTIVE ARTHRITIS CURRICULUM
About Matt McCulloch
Matt is an educator of fitness and movement professionals, co-founder of Kinected and co-director of the Kane School as well as co-director of the FAMI and FAMI – Level Two workshops. A classically trained dancer, he began studying Pilates over 20 years ago to rehabilitate a knee injury following 4 separate knee surgeries. He is trained in both original and contemporary approaches and over the past 15 years, he has educated hundreds of fitness professionals. Matt’s passion for movement and pilates has been the resource for creating many workshops and teaching tools for movement professionals. These workshops emphasize proper biomechanics and creative progressions and modifications based on the original Pilates repertoire. The wide range of workshops he has created are designed to focus on various injuries, joint replacements, additional orthopedic injuries and special populations such as the young athlete with developmental issues as well as neurological issues.
Matt’s passion for education extends beyond the fitness professional to the clinical world investing in his mission to bridge the gap of movement and medicine. He lectures to clinical professionals, frequently leading workshops fusing movement and clinical information on the rehabilitative benefits of Pilates and alternative therapeutic movement to DPT students at Hunter College and physiatry residents at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, and frequently presents at Pilates on Tour. Additionally, Matt incorporates pilates as well as many different modalities such as GYROKINESIS® & GYROTONIC® , CORE ALIGN and BODHI suspension straps and yoga. He is committed to utilizing several different modalities in his sessions with clients not only to extend their body education beyond Pilates, but because he also believes this approach creates more balance in their body and raises their BODY IQ.