You need to stretch...or do you?
This has been peddled about for years and the go to for dealing with soreness, pains, lack of mobility in various joints. But it doesn’t work. It’s pretty useless, unless you address the biomechanical problem as well. Although I've used taking up running as an analogy further on, truly this can apply to anybody just going about daily living. Something else to consider is that not everything you stretch is a muscle! You have a ton of connective tissue that also can get in the way of good movement and sound joint mobility. But some of this doesn’t need to be stretched at all..in fact it will cause you a whole new ton of problems if that gets pulled on pointlessly. What needs to be addressed is not the supposedly ‘tight’ muscles, but the whole system around the area that is causing problems. That means looking at.. Addressing motor control Tissue mobility Muscle Dynamics to read more go to our blog page on our website. https://www.northantspilates.com/blog