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Tagged with injury stretching
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How does over stretching hamstring injury work?
I have recently started doing Yoga, and I think I over stretched my hamstring. (I wanted quick result so I pushed pretty hard at a lot of poses, e.g. forward fold, wide leg forward fold etc) initially ...
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Exercises to aid in recovery of trapezius muscle and provide future protection?
My upper back has been susceptible for years to get stiff or spasm when I do any sort of weights, typically for a few days.
I've been told that totally resting a sore muscle is not ideal, rather very ...
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advice for male turning 40+
I've been weight and martial art training for a few years now, on and off.
Having turned 40 recently, and over the years noticing changes like longer recovery times etc, I was wondering if there are ...
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What is the difference between static stretching vs strengthening the antagonistic muscle?
I was trying to learn more about healthy ways to deal with injuries and I think from this video by Athlean-X and this one from Mike they seem to imply that one should basically never statictically ...
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Muscle spasm/contraction
Recently I have started a program to strengthen(and learning to activate) specific muscles relating to overpronation(abductor hallucis, flexor digitorum brevis etc.).
After a few weeks I'm now able ...
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Fingers for intensive sports requiring hands a lot? Recoving from ulnar claw?
[Update] Thanks to the answer, I acknowledge now that I am heading towards "ulnar nerve entrapment" where one injury is Ulnar claw -- more common with males particularly training in gym with ...
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Hip stretches - recover from piriformis syndrome and hard gluteal muscles
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Due to a one sided sport I intensely practiced for a good portion of my teenage years(rowing in a team with only one oar per person), I have ever since experienced an awkward tight feeling ...
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Strengthening and healing the psoas (leg-lifting) muscle
A few months ago I hurt my psoas muscle and a couple of ligaments around it. I've been off of it since then and it's been healing and I'd like to get back into the things that I had to quit.
I'd ...
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