New research published today in The Journal of Physiology shows that 12 weeks of easy-to-administer passive stretching helps improve blood flow by making it easier for your arteries to dilate and ...

SAN FRANCISCO – If you're a mouse, then stretching before you exercise is a good thing – even as long as two weeks before your next cheese hunt or cat run. But if you're reading this for yourself, ...

New research published today in the Journal of Physiology shows that 12 weeks of easy-to-administer passive stretching helps improve blood flow by making it easier for your arteries to dilate and ...

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(via TEDEd) An athlete is preparing for a game. They’ve put on their gear and done their warmup, and now it’s time for one more routine — stretching. Typically, athletes stretch before physical ...

To stretch or not to stretch before a workout? It’s a question exercise circles have debated for decades. A UW-La Crosse study shows some new promise for the importance of stretching — especially for ...

On Oct. 4, the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two researchers for their work in identifying the proteins responsible for providing our ability to sense heat and touch. These ...