Passive Stretch: an exercise that moves a joint or limb beyond its active range of motion. In other words, using an external force to put your body into a position that it could not achieve on its own.
For decades, we’ve been told that it:
But these are all myths. There is NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to support any of the above claims.
The real truth is that it:
This may be new information to some of you. But remember, passive stretching does not equal flexibility. There is another way to improve flexibility!
“These statements may be contrary to what many athletes and coaches believe and what is common practice, write experts. Yet much of sport and exercise medicine and the management of musculoskeletal injury has developed empirically with little research evidence. The culture is changing, and continued study makes valuable contributions to the debate on stretching.”