Overview: Comprehensive, covering all relevant aspects of flexibility.Summarizes the basic science underlying the physiology of stretching.Synthesizes the important literature and offers a concept of how tissueIn 1964, at the beginning of my PhD studies at Southern Illinois University, I was first introduced to the theory and practice of proprioceptive neuro muscular facilitation (PNF). One specific application, reversal of antago nists, particularly intrigued me, and served as the focus of not only my dissertation, but also numerous research projects, presentations, and pub lications over
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