Isometric stretching can be great for people who want to make reasonably rapid advances in flexibility because it sends more signals from the nervous system that tell the muscles it’s okay to stretch further. Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) PNF is similar to isometric stretching, ...
PROPRIOCEPTIVE NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION (PNF) STRETCHING: WHAT IS THE OPTIMUM DURATION, TYPE, AND FREQUENCY?An abstract is unavailable.doi:10.1097/00005768-200105001-01104M P. SchwellnusS CobbingT D. NoakesOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)...
This is also why PNF stretching will be more efficient, that is, it will stimulate the tendon shuttle greatly. The reason why static stretching is slow is that the stimulation of muscle spindle is greater than that of tendon spindle in the early stage of stretching, so it takes 30s for st...
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF)PNF is similar to isometric stretching, except that the contract-relax scheme might be done for a much shorter time (15-second stretch and 7-second contraction), Galliett says. This stretching technique also includes a contraction of the muscle opposite...