What is it about?
Flexibility influences how we move. Athletes with large hamstring flexibility experience less resistance when the knee is extended, they are stronger at knee flexion at more extended joint angles, and they are able to produce large force over a larger range of motion compared to athletes with normal flexibility, although their maximal strength is not different.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that flexibility is not only a result of pain threshold, but also influences how easily the joint is extended, and how the muscle system crossing the joint functions during muscular contractions.
Perspectives
This article is a small step towards understanding how stretching training changes the function of the joints being stretched, not only affecting pain tolerance but also producing changes locally in the muscle tendon systems.
Marie Moltubakk
Norwegian school of sport sciences
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This page is a summary of: Hamstrings functional properties in athletes with high musculo-skeletal flexibility, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, May 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12488.
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