Have you ever wondered what really happens to your back when stretching? Is stretching our back dangerous? Can we get injured for life? What are we really stretching in these crazy positions? Is back flexibility/stretching only for children? Can an adult ever learn backbends, bridges and chest stands?
All these and many more questions will be answered in this video.
Research read in direct association with this video:
The Extremes of Spinal Motion: A Kinematic Study of a Contortionist in an Open-Configuration Magnetic Resonance Scanner
Hahn, Frederik MD*; Kissling, Rudolf MD†; Weishaupt, Dominik MD‡; Boos, Norbert MD, MBA*
Dynamic whole-spine MRI of contortionists. W.W. Orrison, Jr T.G. Perkins
Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Henderson, NV, USA.
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Effervescence - ZAYFALL
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Aleks