We offer a variety of functional classes to cater to your needs, based on your physical capacity and goals. All of the classes incorporate strengthening, postural control, mobility, flexibility, endurance, power, balance, and cardio training. However, each class serves a specific clinical condition with an emphasis on certain components. Our class options are as follows:
This class targets the elderly population who have had, or are likely to experience, falls due to balance conditions or people who feel a lack of control over their mobility or capacity to move around. In addition to regular balance, strength, and functional movement training, the class will simulate a situation where it challenges your ability to position the body with obstacles around.
Back Strengthening Class:
This class is popular among office staff and manual workers as they tend to overuse their spinal muscles or hold one position for a prolonged period. We also incorporate education on how to pace your activities, how to manage flare-ups, correct sitting techniques, and advice regarding back conditioning at the workplace.
Osteoarthritis Class:
The benefits of exercise in OA are numerous, including loosening stiff joints and keeping them moving, strengthening the muscles around the joint for better protection, releasing chemicals in the brain to reduce pain, maintaining a healthy weight, and improving heart and lung function.
Weight Loss & Fitness HIIT Class:
In this class, your speed, power, and endurance are challenged. If you’re looking for ways to boost your metabolic and heart rate, burn fat faster, or improve muscle strength, this is the right option. Different movement patterns, equipment, body parts, and repetitions are all integrated into the program to help you achieve optimal fitness.
PD Warrior Program:
This is a 10-week program of Parkinson’s-specific exercises designed tailored to your unique presentation and goals. Compared to general exercise such as walking, running, dancing, and swimming, etc., this program is designed to challenge both your motor/physical function and mind. It is a form of rehabilitation aiming to maximize neuroplastic change and slow the progression of symptoms you’re experiencing. The exercises are graded at multiple levels to accommodate your capacity.
Clinical Pilates Class:
Pilates has been well recognized for its benefits in body and mind control, strengthening specific muscle groups, facilitating motor control, improving movement patterns, posture, nervous system, increasing flexibility, and performance of the body. It also helps in increasing lung capacity and circulation, stress management, improving body awareness, balance, and coordination.
Forteture offers you physiotherapist-tailored clinical Pilates class as an adjunct to your rehab to assist your return to work and sports commitment. Key concepts in Pilates include centering, concentration, precision, control, breathing pattern, core activation, stability, and biomechanical pattern reinforcement.
Key concepts in pilates: Centering, concentration, precision, control, breathing pattern, core activation, stability, and biomechanical pattern reinforcement.
Targeting population: Lower back pain, core weakness, general deconditioning, poor posture, office workers, chronic leg pain, athletes, dancers, and overactivation of muscles.
Class setting: We value the quality of the class, and as Pilates requires concentric and conscious control over movement, we only offer a class of three maximum to ensure the quality of teaching and guidance. Each participant will receive an assessment before we choose the right class for you as classes come at different levels.
Hydrotherapy:
It is a patient-specific water-based exercise program designed to assist in your rehabilitation.
There are many studies and reviews reporting on the physiological and therapeutic effects of hydrotherapy. It utilizes the buoyancy, warmth, light-resistance, and hydrostatic quality of the water to release muscle spasm, desensitize the pain pathway, and unload the deconditioned body by eliminating gravity.
Commonly conditions include:
- Acute or chronic back pain
- Shoulder rehabilitation
- Knee rehabilitation
- Foot and ankle rehabilitation
- Post-operative rehabilitation
- Fitness HIIT
- Balance disorder training
