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Determining the limited side. Help the joint while stretching laterally into the limited side. Take care to make sure you sit into/stretch into the limited side THE SAME as how your body does the flexible side. Meaning, take care to avoid twisting cheats or rotational cheats that may fool you into thinking you've gained the motion. Same as above. Take care to avoid swiveling at the booty, knees, ankles to fool you into thinking you're stretching into the limitation. Check the flexible...

Best physical therapy practice is to make sure that each area of your body has 100% of its own mobility and mechanics so as not to promote compensation from another region to provide what that area cannot do. Once that happens (which happens far eariler in life than we think), the compensatory cheats spread, worsen, and lock down; thus, chronic pain that we attribute to age.

Stretch and exercise is always beneficial. There is a point where it plateaus in its beneficial effects. If you notice you have to perform a certain regimen either before or after an activity in order to 'avoid injury', you have 2 choices. You can either keep up with that regimen (and many others) to allow the activity while still having to deal with a chronic issue that is somewhat better but still present OR you can receive manual intervention to aid the body's joints (pulleys) and...