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The Vital Glutes: Connecting the Gait Cycle to Pain and Dysfunction
A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain
When the pelvis is not balanced and good skeletal positioning is ignored, a seated or standing hamstring stretch, for example, does not activate the hamstrings but engages the iliacus and gluteus maximus muscles, which in turn pull on the SI joint ligaments.
from Core Awareness, Revised Edition: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance by Liz Koch
- Components:- Neural tissue: motor neurons cause muscles to contract and shorten, spindle neurons rap around muscle fibers and sense the stretching in the muscle. If it’s stretching a signal is send to the motor neurons in the spinal cord, which ensures the muscle contracts to keep the range of motion in a safe range. At the end of each muscles you ... See more
from Improve Flexibility with Research-Supported Stretching Protocols by Andrew Huberman
Nicolay Gerold added
With this in mind, it is interesting to consider the many stretching techniques that incorporate neurological “tricks,” such as PNF, contract/relax, post isometric relaxation, reciprocal inhibition, etc. Looking at these techniques through the lens of the central governor, we can see them as ways to convince the nervous system that the movement is
... See morefrom A Guide to Better Movement: The Science and Practice of Moving With More Skill and Less Pain by Todd Hargrove