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Mbodies Pink Ribbon – Trains the UK’s Breast Cancer Exercise specialists with its Pilates based Post Operative Rehabilitation Course. By Chris Onslow

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The Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Rehabilitation course will prepare Pilates Instructors to qualify and be certified as a Breast Cancer Exercise specialist. Overview of Breast Cancer in the UK   One in nine women will be diagnosed with Breast Cancer at some time in their life and according to the UK Office of National Statistics Breast Cancer is the most common form of cancer in England. More than 11,500 people will die of Breast Cancer every year.   Over 600,000 people who have been treated for Breast Cancer are currently living in the UK.    For many thousands of women who have survived Breast Cancer the disease will return, and the cycle of treatment and decision making will start all over again,  the return of the cancer may or may not be related to the first incidence. In 2010 there were approximately 50,000 new cases of Breast Cancer in women and 400 cases in men with the highest incidence in the 60 to 70-year-old age range.  Less than 20% of all Breast Cancer new diagnoses are in wo

Mbodies aligns its Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in Pilates Teacher Training with the latest UK insurance company requirements

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The UK Fitness Industry as a whole accepts you as a qualified Pilates Instructor by virtue of passing your First Pilates certification course – any additional Pilates instructor training need only be CPD! To the benefit of Pilates Teachers themselves, insurance companies have re-focussed to align with the training needs of the individual Pilates Instructor, rather than the somewhat commercially influenced rules of Pilates Instructor Training Companies. In the past, the Insurance Industry in the UK had considered Pilates as a more niche discipline, and they were prepared to adopt the certification requirements stated by Individual Pilates training companies. Previously, in order to remain a certified instructor, a Pilates certification training company stipulated CPD from their own Pilates Instructor courses and also dictated the hours required each year. Without prior experience the Insurance companies accepted and adopted this as the UK rules for Pilates Certification. This practi

The first face-to-face Mbodies, post rehab breast cancer course, since lockdown - the prequel.

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  ‘Spot the difference’ As we prepared on Saturday Morning 26 th June 2021 for Mbodies Training Academy’s  first face-to-face education since lockdown, it felt a bit like setting up a 'spot the difference' game:  6 Physiotherapists, 7 Pilates Instructors a Yoga specialist instructor and an advanced fitness professional were about to arrive for two days of Pink Ribbon Post-Rehab Instructor Training and what would in 2019 have been just a routine set-up was anything but that today. The arrival The Arrival No more lonely sign-in Sheet to greet you – instead ‘Lateral-Flow’ Covid 19 tests for those who had not brought photographic proof of their own negative test earlier that morning. .  Type IIR medical-grade disposable masks: the new requirement to be admitted to the course; as well as the compulsory sanitiser to use when entering and leaving the premises! The sign-in The Disclaimers and Waivers Added to the normal disclaimer and permission  forms covering liability, data-prote