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Felix Okoye
Physiotherapist & Rehabilitation Pilates SpecialistFelix is a chartered physiotherapist who teaches Pilates for rehabilitation. He focuses on back pain, posture, and the unglamorous mechanics of why bodies break down.
📍 Manchester, UK
Latest from Felix
Pilates for Scoliosis: What It Can and Can't Change
Pilates will not straighten a curve, and no exercise will. Here is what the research says it can change, and how to judge whether it is working.
Sep 19, 2026
Pilates After a Hip Replacement: Timelines, Precautions, and Limits
Gentle work often starts within six weeks; a normal class usually takes three to six months. What changes, what to…
Sep 16, 2026
Pilates With Hypermobility: How to Build Stability Safely
Hypermobile joints don't need more stretch. Here's how to adapt Pilates for control, proprioception and fewer flares - and what…
Sep 12, 2026
Pelvic Girdle Pain After Birth: How Pilates Helps and What to Modify
A physio's guide to Pilates for postpartum pelvic girdle pain (SPD): what the evidence supports, moves that usually suit, and…
Sep 11, 2026
10 Pilates Exercises That Genuinely Help Lower Back Pain
Pilates has a genuine evidence base for chronic lower back pain. But only some of the exercises help. Here are…
Mar 18, 2026
How Pilates Fixes Bad Posture in 8 Weeks (Without Tricks)
Telling someone to 'stand up straight' has never fixed anyone's posture. Pilates works because it targets the specific muscle imbalances…
Feb 11, 2026
Pilates for Seniors Over 60: 12 Safe, Effective Exercises
Pilates is uniquely well-suited to older adults: low impact, joint-friendly, scalable, and directly targets the strength, balance, and mobility losses…
Jan 14, 2026
Pilates for Desk Workers: 10 Exercises for Neck and Shoulders
If you sit at a screen all day, your body is reorganizing itself around that posture — forward head, rounded…
Dec 16, 202510 years of teaching.
Felix is a chartered physiotherapist who incorporated Pilates into his rehabilitation practice in 2015 after observing that his post-injury clients who took Pilates classes recovered measurably faster than those who didn't. He completed comprehensive Pilates teacher training and now splits his time between his physiotherapy clinic and a small private Pilates practice that focuses on injury rehabilitation.
He writes about Pilates the way a clinician thinks about it: as a graded, scalable exercise system for people whose bodies hurt. Not as a wellness lifestyle.
