Assisted Stretching

If you have ever gone to a professional football or basketball game, you may have seen someone helping the players stretch beforehand. That is assisted stretching. Professional athletes use it because it improves performance and reduces the likelihood of injury. When we perform stretches normally, muscle groups remain engaged to hold the position. This makes it challenging to relax specific muscles fully. With one of Elite Foot & Bodys massage therapists helping maintain the positions properly, clients can get the most out of the time spent stretching. For healthy individuals, additional pressure in specific stretches can help develop levels of flexibility that they could not achieve with solo stretches.