Talk:PNF stretching

Sports PNF
This and Sports PNF sound like they're the same thing - is that right? If so we should probably merge them. Olaf Davis | Talk 10:46, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, Sports PNF reads like someone's book review. Any unique information there should just be merged into this artcile. --64.69.123.132 (talk) 00:12, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * I have asked the creator of Sports PNF to merge any unique information from his article into the main one. -- Zim Zala Bim talk  23:05, 1 May 2008 (UTC)


 * I've merged some of the introductory text, the history section, and the gallery from Sports PNF into this article. The rest of Sports PNF seemed too much simply a summary of the referenced book, and not appropriate for an encyclopedia article. Will redirect Sports PNF to here. -- Zim Zala Bim  talk  23:12, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

The history section says that "irradiation is when maximal contraction of a muscle recruits the help of additional muscles." I can tell you that this is certainly not the right term. I have no idea what the correct term is, but irradiation means "exposing something to radiation," radiation like that coming from Uranium. Irradiation has nothing to do with stretching.

(Neurological irradiation) the spread of sensory neural impulses.

Terminology of PNF stretching is misnamed: In no way shape or form does stretching for length facilitate the proprioceptive nervous system. It actually inhibits the proprioceptive nervous system. The stretches in the PNF system were not intended to create length. They are quick ballistic stretches meant to fire the spindle cells and stimulate the stretch reflex therefore firing the muscle. This is why trying to increase length with ballistic stretching causes muscle tears and tendinitis. Ballistic stretching is acceptable as a warm up to a ballistic activity but not in forcing the joint past normal range to increase length. To actually stretch the tissue past the elastic range and safely into a plastic range you have to inhibit the stretch reflex. Using neurological principals from PNF to do so does not make increasing length in tissue PNF. It is still just plain old facilitated stretching. They should actually call it “Proprioceptive neuromuscular inhibition stretching” if they want to be more accurate. --jmarsella --Jmarsella (talk) 10:39, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Gallery
A few pictures on the sides of the text to illustrate the principle are fine (I'd say 3 at most, considering the length of the article), but a whole gallery may be a bit much. As I scrolled through the article, I felt like I was on someone's blog.