Pin & Stretch: Soft Tissue Techniques for Performance Part III

January 31, 2013 / Skylar Pond

A stretch is accomplished by creating space between origin and insertion of a single tissue or of a fascial plane.  In theory then, to stretch tight muscles of the forearm, all you’d have to do is flex and extend your wrist and elbow.  That doesn’t work so good does it?

That’s unfortunate because with all of the endurance set kettlebelling you’ve been up to you could probably use a solid forearm stretch on this rest day.  Pin and Stretch will do the trick for you.  Try this out:

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  • Flex your elbow while extending your wrist to end range (as if you’re trying to touch the top of your shoulder with the back of your hand.
  • Push into a muscle on the top of your forearm with about 10 lbs pressure then tissue pull back toward your elbow
  • Keeping that pressure and tissue pull, now extend your elbow and flex your wrist to end range.

These 3 videos will give you a starting point:

 

Skylar Pond

Dr. Skylar Pond is a sports medicine chiropractor in Seattle, Washington. sportsmednw.com
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