Touching Hands Behind Your Back: Biomechanics, Assessment, and Improvement Strategies
Touching your hands behind your back assesses complex shoulder mobility involving glenohumeral joint rotation, scapular movement, and muscle flexibili...
By Hart
Category: Mobility & Flexibility
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Forward Fold: Proper Mechanics, Key Benefits, and Common Mistakes
To effectively fold forward, initiate the movement primarily from your hips, hinging backward at the pelvis while maintaining a long, neutral spine, r...
By Alex
Heel Sit: Benefits, How to Practice, and Important Precautions
Heel sit, or Seiza, is a kneeling posture that significantly enhances ankle and knee flexibility, improves hip mobility, promotes spinal alignment, an...
By Hart
Knee Stretching: Techniques, Benefits, and Important Considerations
To improve knee mobility and health, one stretches the surrounding muscles like quadriceps, hamstrings, calves, and hip flexors, rather than the knee ...
By Hart
Seiza Posture: Understanding Pain, Improving Mobility, and Achieving Comfort
Achieving comfortable heel sitting (seiza) requires a gradual approach, focusing on improving mobility in the ankles, knees, and hips, utilizing props...
By Hart
Floor Sitting: Positions, Benefits, and Progressive Practice
Practicing floor sitting involves gradually adopting various positions and utilizing props while addressing mobility limitations to enhance joint heal...
By Jordan
90/90 Stretch: Where You Should Feel It and Why
The 90/90 stretch targets external rotation in the lead hip, felt in the deep glutes and posterior hip capsule, and internal rotation in the trail hip...
By Alex
