Among the so-called global approaches, in addition to the methods already mentioned (Mézières, Closed Field, Alexander method), there are the techniques of yoga (to define yoga as a stretching technique is very reductive, it is in fact an approach to life that permeates everyone. its aspects, of which the physical one is only a part), and the decompensated global muscle lengthening, on which I will spend a few words.
Global decompensated muscle lengthening
This stretching takes place on a tool called pancafit®, which keeps the posterior muscle chain in stretch, while it is possible to perform specific stretching exercises for other chains. The idea of pancafit® was born from Professor Raggi®, based on the theories of Mézières , who was the first to discover that the polyarticular muscles are imbricated with each other (they overlap like the tiles of a roof) so as to form muscle chains, the most important of which is the posterior one.The posterior chain, being antigravity, is involved in all stations, except the lying one, for this reason it is the most powerful and it is also the most retracted.
Ultimately the muscles are connected to each other by the bands that surround the muscles and by the connective tissue, which in turn envelops every component of the body; when even a single muscle shortens for some reason (poor movement, trauma, tension, stress, pain, excess movement, incorrect posture, etc.), it causes an "action on the entire muscle chain, which will inevitably disturb the entire structure musculo-articular, up to the organs.
Pain or inflammation will appear at the most critical, "weakest" point of the structure; or at the point where there is greatest joint compression, stiffness or tension. Here, problems, pain, inflammation and, as a last step, arthritic degeneration will begin to manifest.
This is a muscle stretching done in correct posture, that is without allowing "compensations", antalgic mechanisms that the body adopts to escape from tension, pain or stimuli that it considers dangerous for its survival.
Other articles on "Global Stretching"
- PNF Stretching and C.R.A.C.
- Stretching: types of stretching
- Static stretching and static-active stretching
