How Does Relax Stretching Work?
How Does Relax Stretching Work? The physiological phenomenon behind contract-relax stretching is reciprocal inhibition. Your body knows that when a muscle on one-side of the joint is contracting (shortening) the other side of the joint needs to relax (lengthen) to allow this motion to occur. This is known as reciprocal inhibition. How does stretching relax?