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Pilates

Maintenance Phase

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Joseph Pilates and the Infirmary

Joseph Pilates worked with a lot of different kinds of people in this internment camp, but particularly focused on people who were in the infirmary. He started messing around with the springs and first started rigging springs over patients' beds so that they could rest with their limbs elevated,. Yeah. So those were some early prototypes for equipment like the reformer that is still used in Pilates today.

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