The exclusion criteria were:
contraindication for physical exercise
according to the Physical Activity
Readiness Questionnaire; practices
Pilates regularly; pregnancy;
previous spinal and lower limb surgeries;
history of spinal fracture or
inflammatory, rheumatic, or neurological
disorders; systemic metabolic
disease; nerve root compromise;
tumor; infection; osteoporosis; structural
deformity; inability to understand
written or spoken Portuguese;
and received physical therapy treatment
in the previous 6 months.