Edited by Silvia Avnet
Among the so - called global approaches, in addition to the methods already mentioned (Mézières, Campo Chiuso, Alexander method), there are yoga techniques (defining yoga as a stretching technique is very simplistic, it is in fact an approach to life that permeates everyone its aspects, of which the physical one is only a part), and the global decompensated muscular lengthening, on which I will spend a few words.
Compensated global muscle stretching
This stretching takes place on a tool called pancafit®, which holds the posterior muscular chain in stretch, while it is possible to perform specific stretching exercises for other chains. The idea of pancafit® originates from Professor Raggi®, based on the theories of Mézières, who first discovered that the polyarticular muscles are imbricate between them (they overlap like the tiles of a roof) in order to form muscle chains, of which the most important is the rear one. The posterior chain, being antigravity, is involved in all the stations, except the lying one, for this reason it is the most powerful and is also the most retracted.
Ultimately the muscles are connected to each other by the bands that surround the muscles and by the connective tissue, which in turn wraps around every component of the body; when even a single muscle is shortened for some reason (little movement, trauma, tension, stress, pain, excessive movement, incorrect posture, etc.), it causes an action on the entire muscular chain, which will inevitably disturb the whole structure muscle-joint, up to the organs.
Pain or inflammation will appear at the most critical, "weakest" point of the structure; or at the point where there is greater joint compression, stiffness or tension. Here problems, pain, inflammation and, as a last step, arthritic degeneration will begin to manifest.
This is a muscular stretching done in correct posture, that is without allowing "compensations", analgesic mechanisms that the body adopts to escape from tensions, pains or stimuli that it deems dangerous for its own survival.
