Your stretch reflex (myotatic reflex) is governed by your muscle spindles, sensory receptors inside your muscles that are sensing for “too fast” or “too far”. If your spindles sense you’re at risk of injury, they signal to your nervous system to contract. This is why your body fights you in a stretch. It’s worried you’ll hurt yourself. There are a number of tricks to reduce your stretch reflex, but here are the top two: (1) Breathe to relax, into the count of four, out for eight (2) Repetition,

💥 Is this the worst stretch you can do? ❌ For many dealing with sciatica, this could be the worst idea for you Why? Because if you have pain shooting down the back of your leg, that means you have a sensitive nerve A sensitive nerve doesn’t want to be stretched! Otherwise, you will increase nerve tension and therefore just increase the pain and sensitivity of your nerve! 🔑 The key is to understand that focusing where the symptoms are (aka in your leg) is a waste of time anyway Sciatica is a ba