APPI Pilates Matwork Certification Exams

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In light of the recent guidance we have received by the Government in regards to social distancing we have made a slight change to your exam format, this will now be done as a online pre-recorded format which you will submit via video.

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Once you have booked your exam submission date you will receive a drop box link which you can upload your video and please also a copy of your log book. If you do not have scanner you can take a picture on your mobile device and submit your pictures to the same drop box link that you will receive via email.

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WHAT IS THE STRUCTURE?

We would like you to simply record your planned case study 1:1 Pilates session, we ask that you give a short introduction introducing yourself and you client. Please remember that when you introduce your client that we require you to provide a brief background of the client you are working with and the aims of the session you have planned.

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EXAM FILMING: (Here are a few tips to help with your filming)

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• As this is a practical Pilates 1:1 session you are required to have the practical pieces of Pilates equipment for you and your client, so please bare this in mind when you are preparing your session.

• You will need to have someone who will be acting as your client (hopefully a family member). If this is not possible and due to the social distancing guidance we understand that this might not be possible and we can simply postpone your examination to a later date, please just let us know

• To record your exam, this can be done on a mobile, IPad, Tablet or a Laptop that has a web camera. Please make sure that you do a test run so that we can see in full shot the Pilates 1:1 session, you and the client and that the sound is clear.

• Make sure you are brief on the instructions on the video (client history). Please provide: your client’s history (any injuries or issues that you are trying to improve through the use of your chosen programme) + the main clinical aims of your session and why they are relevant to your client (what you are trying to achieve by applying the exercises you’ve chosen).

• You can then just move straight into your session, try to make it as fluid as possible, just like you would do during a normal class.

• If your client has not done Pilates before please pre-teach them the 5 key elements and basic principles so the session will flow OK. In the session it is assumed the 5 key elements and basic exercises are already taught.

• Before each exercise: please just make sure that you say the name of the exercise you are going to show next; show the exercise as you briefly instruct the patient; and then go into your teaching while getting the patient to perform the exercise.

 

We ask that you submit your video via the drop box link by the end of the day that your exam was due to be held on, and then our examiner will mark your exams within 2 weeks of the submission date.