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Acadiana Pain & Performance Rehab offers stretch services to help you feel your best. Stretching optimizes your mobility while encouraging muscle growth and injury prevention.
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What happens when you stretch?
Muscle Lengthening
- Stretching elongates the muscle fibers and surrounding connective tissues, allowing them to reach a greater length than during a resting state.
- The stretch reflex helps prevent excessive stretching and protect the muscle from potential damage, triggered by receptors that cause an involuntary contraction of the muscle.
- Regular stretching can increase the muscle's compliance, making it more pliable and able to tolerate elongation without injury.
- Stretching stimulates blood flow to the muscles, providing them with more oxygen and nutrients. This helps reduce muscle stiffness and improve muscle function.