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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect that a Pilates trained group and control group have on the spinal joint range of motion and spinal movement pattern. A group of 8 female pilates instructors with over 1 year experience and a group of 7 females that had no pilates experience participated in this study. Retro-reflective markers were placed on predetermined anatomical locations of participants and dynamic spinal segment motion and radius of curvature was observed using a motion capture system(Qualisys, Sweden). Firstly, in general the spine's intersegmental angle tended to be larger for the pilates group more than the non-pilates group but this was not a big difference. Secondly, after the observation of the motion sequence made by the angle of the three vertebrae from the distal to the proximal, for the non-pilates group there was no separate sequence motion from first to the eight thoracic but there was a sequence shown by the pilates group. In conclusion, pilates is a spinal lengthening and pelvic stabilizing exercise that uses a breathing technique which can increase thoracic and rib cage mobility while also by its spinal articulation exercises the mobility of individual spinal segments can be increased.