Dig into the science of stretching, and find out what it actually does to your muscles and how you can improve your flexibility. -- An athlete is preparing for a game. They’ve put on their gear and done their warmup, and now it’s time for one more routine — stretching. Typically, athletes stretch before physical activity to avoid injuries like strains and tears. But does stretching actually prevent these issues? And if so, how long do the benefits of stretching last? Malachy McHugh explores the finer points of flexibility. Lesson by Malachy McHugh, directed by Sofia Pashaei. Support Our Non-Profit Mission ---------------------------------------------- Support us on Patreon: http://bit.ly/TEDEdPatreon Check out our merch: http://bit.ly/TEDEDShop ---------------------------------------------- Connect With Us ---------------------------------------------- Sign up for our newsletter: http://bit.ly/TEDEdNewsletter Follow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/TEDEdFacebook Find us on Twitter: http://bit.ly/TEDEdTwitter Peep us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/TEDEdInstagram ---------------------------------------------- Keep Learning ---------------------------------------------- View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stretching-actually-changes-your-muscles-malachy-mchugh Dig deeper with additional resources: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-stretching-actually-changes-your-muscles-malachy-mchugh#digdeeper Music: https://www.campstudio.co ---------------------------------------------- Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Cyrus Garay, Samuel Barbas, LadyGeek, Marin Kovachev, Penelope Misquitta, Hans Peng, Gaurav Mathur, Erik Biemans, Tony, Michelle, Katie and Josh Pedretti, Hoai Nam Tran, Kack-Kyun Kim, Michael Braun-Boghos, zjweele13, Anna-Pitschna Kunz, Edla Paniguel, Thomas Mungavan, Jaron Blackburn, Venkat Venkatakrishnan, ReuniteKorea, Aaron Henson, Rohan Gupta, Begum Tutuncu, Brian Richards, Jørgen Østerpart, Tyron Jung, Carsten Tobehn, Katie Dean, Ezgi Yersu, Gerald Onyango, alessandra tasso, Doreen Reynolds-Consolati, Manognya Chakrapani, Ayala Ron, Eunsun Kim, Phyllis Dubrow, Ophelia Gibson Best, Paul Schneider, Joichiro Yamada, Henrique Cassús, Karthik Cherala, Clarence E. Harper Jr., Vignan Velivela, Ana Maria, Exal Enrique Cisneros Tuch, Tejas Dc, Khalifa Alhulail, Martin Stephen, Jose Henrique Leopoldo e Silva, Mandeep Singh and Abhijit Kiran Valluri.

In this video, we will help you find out if your sciatic nerve mobility is the real reason behind your hamstring tightness. We will also explain to you why you shouldn’t do static stretches for your hamstrings. We will show you two excellent mobility exercises to get your sciatic nerve moving again, and thus unlocking your hamstring mobility. _______________________________________________________________ Images used in this video: Wikimedia Commons, 17.11.2020 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Pulled_Hamstring.jpg Background deleted Wikimedia commons, 27.03.2023 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gray832.png Background deleted Nervoussystem.jpg Flickr, 15.7.2021 https://www.flickr.com/photos/perpetualplum/3974877876 Background deleted, and nerves painted yellow _______________________________________________________________ #sciatic #stretching #health

#Shorts 🙋‍♀️Have you ever done this stretch before? Um... WOW 😮 Do it right now - how amazing is that?!?! 💥When you spend a large majority of your day holding things, looking down, and being in a forward rounded position, it's SO COMMON to develop those nasty, stabbing knots along your shoulder blades. 😩😩😩 ⬆️This is the ONLY stretch I've ever done that actually targets those knots and gets right into it. But you gotta do it exactly as I show it here, with the exhale and everything. 🌬️ EXTRA TIP: Combine this stretch with a pec/chest opening stretching and you've got a winning combination for your posture 🙌🙌🙌 ➡️➡️ Want more? Be sure to check out this video: Stretches for Neck and Shoulder // Relieve Pain and Tension [https://youtu.be/Xq1X_fe1H2Y](https://youtu.be/Xq1X_fe1H2Y) Let me know how you like this one! ❤️❤️❤️

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The best treatment for a pinched neck nerve (causing shoulder pain, arm pain, rhomboid pain, or pins and needles or numbness in the hand) involves 3 key motions: retraction, traction & lateral flexion. These movements give the greatest relief from ‘cervical radiculopathy’. So, here are the best pinched nerve exercises. My COACHING PROGRAM: Over 12 weeks, I help people with poor posture, and upper body issues—like neck, shoulder, & upper back pain—improve their health using science-based mobilising, stretching, & strengthening exercises… so they can feel straight, strong, flexible, & pain free again. REGISTER YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROGRAM… https://stefan-becker.mykajabi.com/expressions-of-interest. ‘The 3 Essential Exercises EVERYONE Should Do’ …EXCLUSIVE video, only here: https://stefan-becker.mykajabi.com/3-essentials GOT QUESTIONS? I answer questions here now: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bodyfixexercises 0:00 Intro 0:27 EXERCISE 1. Retraction with traction 1:30 EXERCISE 2. Retracted lateral flexion 2:24 EXERCISE 3. Chin-tucked Thoracic Cat-Cow 3:17 EXERCISE 4. Reciprocal Inhibition with traction effect 3:55 Inflammation & Centralisation 4:21 Things to AVOID. IMPORTANT!! 4:59 Red Flags. (When to see a doctor) 5:23 Posture is the key! THINGS TO AVOID. IMPORTANT!! Looking at your phone in a flexed position on the sofa, or in bed, is THE most common cause of nerve pain down the arm. So, lift your phone to a higher position when you sit, and lie on your side to look at devices in bed (with your phone on the pillow next to you). Exercises for a pinched neck nerve that are best to avoid: Try not to look up too much when you have a pinched nerve causing arm pain, as this will compress the nerve more. And avoid exercises where you lean towards the painful arm. CENTRALISATION You’ll know you’re improving if the numbness, pins and needles or pain down the arm (or upper back pain) starts to recede towards the base of the neck. WARNING SIGNS If you start to get prolonged numbness in the arm or hand, or any muscle weakness in the arm or hand… go straight to your doctor. MORE EXERCISES FOR A PINCHED NECK NERVE Posture is the key with a pinched nerve in the neck, so these exercise can help reduce any pain in the shoulder going down the arm or pain in the rhomboid area too... POSTURE EXERCISES FOR PINCHED NECK NERVE https://youtu.be/C9QJIuIXAp4 ---------------------------------------- Rhomboid Pain. How To Fix Shoulder Blade Pain Quickly. https://youtu.be/VpFBbxp67lE How To Fix Forward Head Posture & Neck Pain https://youtu.be/VmV4IN6EJQA ---------------------------------------- #bodyfixexercises #armpain #rhomboids

A lot of mobility gurus talk about the fact that prolonged sitting correlates with decreased hip extension. This is true (at least in one study)! But they go a step further than suggest that the reason is shortened hip flexor muscles, with a resultant anterior pelvic tilt. And while on a superficial level, this seems like it makes sense, it’s likely a bit more complex than that! In the study that measured hip extension, they found that even those who were very active and sat for prolonged periods of time still had limited hip extension… 🤔 This doesn’t make sense, since most “active activities” feature movements with a lot of hip extension. Think about it… squats, deadlifts, hiking, running. They all extend the hip! And we know that muscle lengths typically change readily in response to loading… so what could explain this limitation in hip extension? When we think of sitting, it’s basically a prolonged stretch of the spinal muscles due to the flexion and posterior pelvic tilted position. When we go to test hip extension during a test like the modified Thomas test (which was used in the study), the first part of the test is to tuck the knees towards the chest and posterior tilt the pelvis. If the pelvis stays back into a greater posterior tilt during the test because of spine flexibility, you’re more likely to max your hip extension early. The pelvis tucking under into a posterior tilt takes up the remaining space for the leg to move into extension. This could explain why even active adults have a positive test. It’s not actually short hip flexors, but rather more posterior tilt during the test due to spine flexibility. As always, we must be careful to draw causal links without first thinking critically. #posture #mobility #physicaltherapist #personaltrainer