Stretching to Reduce Body Aches and Pains

In fitness, flexibility is most often defined as a joint's ability to move through a full range of motion, or the known distance and direction a joint can move between the flexed position and the extended position.

Poor flexibility affects the way joints function and how the body moves, and lack of flexibility has been linked most commonly to hip and low back pain, shoulder pain, tension headaches, knee pains, and degeneration of the spinal joints. However, flexibility training or stretching will reduce pain and injury, improve range of motion, and increase overall health, promoting independence throughout the years. Increasing flexibility or range of motion through stretching has been shown to:

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