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Why Stretching Doesn't Always Fix Your Problem

8/31/2016

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When we feel stiff or hurt, most people assume that they need to work on moving that part of their body. Conventional wisdom suggests that if something is tight, it needs to be stretched. This is called working on your “flexibility or mobility”.

However, there are some cases where our body is stiff because it is trying to protect us from too much movement
, which might cause damage to a muscle or joint. In this case, stretching and working on mobility is going to make the problem worse. The body need STABILITY exercises, rather than stretching/mobility exercises.

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Cobra and Up Dog Pose as an Assessment Tool

4/7/2016

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NOTE: This post was first published on The Manual Therapist blog, to which Christine Walker is a contributor. This post was written for the audience of other physical therapist and healthcare professionals, however other people may still find it a useful and interesting read. ​

In another post, I talked about how I use child's pose as part of my upper-quarter screen. Child's pose assesses flexion-based deficits. To look at extension-based deficits I use a cobra or up dog pose.

​​Here is a list of objective findings you can gather from using cobra:

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