The Science of Stretch (w/ Dr. Helene Langevin, Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital)

[@Vekna666]

This was so freaking cool to listen to! I preface this by saying that I am a kinesiology major entering my last year and I was super disappointed that none of my courses ever went deep into stretching and flexibility. I actually decided to take notes on the key points in this conversation to research them further. This is the first time I've been compelled to seek out research out of pure interest. Curiosity for the win!

[@Acupunctureclinicsandiegoca]

@@tracyl.carnahan9961 more nerves than in muscles...

[@maricamaas5555]

This is wonderful... Alleviating distress/disease & moving away from toxic chemicals!

[@felicitybennettpachamamath1083]

What an inspiring woman. Amazing insight into fascia and an understanding of acupuncture. Thank you for this interview.

[@dequationblog]

Such a wonderful talk! Amazing calm, curious, compelling attitude towards research and treatment.

[@stretchingbythebay]

I've included her research in my AIS seminars for years! Dr Helene Langevin has been a forward doctor for years! I was so glad to see her appointment to NCCIH in 2018! Now let's get the actual STRETCHing technique upgraded :). Active Isolated Stretch works WITH the neurology for an optimal (and quite pleasant!) STRETCH :)

[@angiecameron7288]

Enjoyed this so much!

[@donmichaelmarinas1810]

Incredibly well spoken individuals!

[@adriia-92]

Really interesting, looking forward to hear about other tradicional medicine techniques explored from a scientific perspective.

[@sawdu1]

Very good another view points for health. Thanks.

[@breathemovebliss]

This was fantastic, thank you.

[@charlottefivez1598]

My questions now would be: Is there any pain sensors on the fascia itself?

[@thedrunkaccountant8617]

Is that Vancouver in the background? :)

[@Ignasimp]

To me the problem in general with alternative "medicine" is that there are no studies showing what it is really happening so any claims of it working are at least daring and sometimes even dangerous. But what she is doing is the exact opposite of this, she is doing scientific research to see what are the potentialities of it, so to me she is not doing "alternative medicine" she is doing basic science.

[@kakatopung8139]

yup, and the problem with modern medication is they depending on sintetic drugs.

[@valerievankerckhove9325]

I agree that more research is needed, but then again, in many cases you really don't need research to know if something's working. I once woke up with a terrible neck cramp: I couldn't move my neck at all. I was in China, my mom dragged me to a nearby massage parlor and after 30 minutes of ouch ouch, I had recovered my full range of neck movements. My dad in the meantime, knew about a lying down posture for back pain: you put pillows below your knees, a smaller pillow behind your back and use a low pillow for your neck. He did a few hours of this whenever his back pain got really bad. In my 20's I had already started getting back pains, and in my mid-30's, feeling a bit panicked, I started using that as my default sleeping posture. That got rid of 60% of my back pain. Yoga got rid of a remaining 35%. There's just this one spot that sometimes hurts a bit and that I'm still trying to figure out. None of that required any research papers.

[@jasmensmith4432]

Incredible

[@adriangross8593]

Very helpful information

[@o00oZu1o00o]

Fascia stretching is a very important but very small part of the stretching equation. For instance, when you pull both your hands over your head, that's what you do. When you stand up and stretch an arm over your head to the side, bowing to the side, you stretch your fascia. Or when you do a full wrist stretch, pulling the tips of the fingers towards the inside of the lower arm, on both arms at the same time. But when you bend forward with legs stretched, or do the splits, it's a muscular thing. When you train for lotus, I'm not quite sure, but I'd say it's both fascia and muscles. So overall, most of the stuff you do, and 98% of the time you spend on stretching is about muscles, not fascia.

[@methuzla]

Nice to see real scientific enquiry and observation. Rather than the antagonistic anti-science bollocks espoused by pseudo-skeptics when they don't like real phenomena so attack them as woo.

[@roadrider1100]

Didn't learn anything about the "science of stretching"

[@OTONAFIT]

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@courrierdebois]

Interesting, but calling the episode "The Science of Stretch" is a gigantic misnomer.

[@cheri7054]

They rarely twist or manipulate the needle in acupuncture. That's my experience

[@beesplaining1882]

The interviewer conducted this interview like the audience watching had an average age of 12 years! Other than that it was excellent.

[@JAYDUBYAH29]

So excited by the fascia conversation, disappointed that it got wedded here to a pseudoscience.

[@regularguy3202]

Stuff like this should convince every thinking person that Darwinian Evolution is absurd.

[@nl4064]

she is still so closed minded to her trade despite her experience fascia contains meridians because its conductive when our voltage drops its impossible to truly heal thats why root canal causes cancer because it cuts the energy in meridian

[@thomas2081]

Tom Myers could be of help:)