How to avoid injuries common hidden injuries explained part 1 | Paul Zaichik | Easyflexibility

Re-injuring yourself all the time? There is a hidden, but common reason why.
This cause of injury is so common and yet most people are completely blind to it.
You see most people are not flexibility balanced. One side of the body is usually tighter than the other. This happens due to many causes. Individual’s occupation, location where tension is carried, effect of injuries and many other reasons. This imbalance if not focused on and taken into consideration, when training can be a reason why people get injured in the first place and then frequently re-injured.
There are three main ways how bilateral flexibility imbalance causes injury. Anyone of them may apply to you or perhaps all three.
1. Playing catch up to the other side.
Imagine you are stretching your hamstrings. You did your left leg and then your right leg. Regardless of what stretching techniques you employ.
This can be Passive Stretching, Zaichik Stretching Technique, PNF, yoga, pilates it does not matter. You notice that you can comfortably hold your left good with your hands. The right foot however you have to struggle to wrap your fingers around.
Without realizing what are doing, you begin to pull your body forward, while stretching the tighter side. You want to have the same flexibility on your right (less flexible) side as you have on your left. However “forceful flexibility balancing” is not a good idea.
Because of my specialization in flexibility, I have observed more students stretching than most people. After originally observing this phenomenon I would ask people; “Why are you pulling so hard into the stretch on this side?” the response: “Because my sides are not even and I want this to side to be as flexible as the other side”
So by now you know what I am getting at here. The less flexible side will eventually get injured from over stretching. On a surface it seems that it will catch up, if you just stretch it more. After all you love your right and left side the same. You want to help the “tight” side. Truth is, you are not helping it.
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