Facilitated Stretching 3rd edition, provides a useful overview of PNF (proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation) stretching - a safe and easy-to-use method that involves stretching the muscle, contracting it isometrically against resistance, then stretching it again to a new range of motion. These steps apply whether you are isolating one muscle at a time or using the spiraldiagonal patterns of PNF to stretch groups of muscles simultaneously.



by Robert E. McAtee & Jeff Charland (2007 191 pages)