What is Assisted Stretching?
What is Assisted Stretching?
Assisted stretching involves a collaborative approach between a trained professional and an individual seeking to enhance flexibility, mobility, and overall physical well-being. During a session at iFlex Stretch Studios, an iFlex certified stretch therapist employs various techniques to gently manipulate and elongate muscles, tendons, and ligaments, targeting specific areas or your entire body. Unlike traditional stretching, assisted stretching utilizes a combination of manual adjustments, controlled movements, and specialized equipment, ensuring a deeper and more effective stretch.
The process also often integrates breathing techniques to enhance relaxation and optimize the stretch’s efficacy. Assisted stretching aims to improve range of motion, alleviate muscle tension, and enhance athletic performance while reducing the risk of injuries. Whether for athletes seeking to boost their performance, individuals recovering from injuries, or those pursuing overall wellness, assisted stretching offers a personalized approach to enhance flexibility and promote bodily resilience, contributing to a balanced and healthier lifestyle.
THE BENEFITS
What are the Benefits Assisted Stretching?
- Assisted stretch therapy utilizes expert guidance and specialized techniques to systematically enhance flexibility and expand the body’s range of motion. Through tailored stretches and support, it aims to unlock greater physical agility, mobility, and overall functional movement.
- Assisted stretch therapy optimizes physical performance by fine-tuning the body’s flexibility, range of motion, and muscle function. This targeted approach boosts agility, endurance, and efficiency in various physical activities, enhancing overall athletic abilities and reducing the risk of injury.
- Assisted stretch therapy facilitates better blood circulation and oxygenation within muscles. Through targeted stretching, it promotes increased blood flow, delivering essential nutrients and oxygen to tissues, aiding in recovery, reducing muscle tension, and enhancing overall tissue health.
- Assisted stretch therapy focuses on enhancing posture by targeting specific muscle groups, correcting imbalances, and promoting proper alignment. This approach aids in reducing the risk of injuries by strengthening supportive muscles, relieving tension, and improving overall body mechanics, leading to better posture and decreased vulnerability to injuries.
- Assisted stretch therapy alleviates stress and tension by targeting key muscle groups, releasing built-up tension, and promoting relaxation. Through tailored stretches and techniques, it eases muscular tightness, fostering a sense of calmness, and reducing overall bodily stress for improved well-being.
- Assisted stretch therapy helps alleviate pain and inflammation by reducing muscle tension and promoting proper alignment. By targeting specific areas, it aids in improving circulation, which can diminish inflammation, ease discomfort, and contribute to overall pain relief.
Increased Flexibility and Range of Motion
Improved Performance for Physical Activities
Improved Blood Flow and Oxygenation in Muscles
Strengthen Posture and Decrease Injuries
Relieve Stress and Tension Across the Body
Extinguish Pain and Inflammation
Why iFlex Stretch Studios for Assisted Stretch Therapy?
At iFlex Stretch Studios, we pride ourselves on delivering personalized assisted-stretch therapy sessions that prioritize individual needs. Our certified stretch therapists conduct thorough mobility assessments for every client, ensuring a tailored approach to enhance their range of motion and encourage a more dynamic lifestyle.
Specializing in professional assisted stretching, our services are crafted to empower individuals by unlocking their complete mobility potential. Embracing a holistic philosophy, we aim to elevate each client’s active way of life, fostering overall wellness and vitality.
Discover the profound impact of our all-encompassing assisted stretching sessions at iFlex Stretch Studios. Our commitment lies in aiding you to reach your mobility aspirations, enriching your active lifestyle, and experiencing the transformative benefits of improved flexibility and mobility.
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Frequently Asked Questions
At iFlex, you will receive a stretching that is based on the latest scientific research. We like to call our style Active Stretching. This is because we ask the receiver to actively contract their muscles at certain points in the stretch- so it is active, not passive. This has been shown to be the most effective type of stretching for increasing range of motion. Specifically, active stretching falls in the family of stretching including PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation), CRAC (Contract, Relax, Antagonist Contract), MET (Muscle Energy Technique).
Assisted stretching is more effective than stretching on your own. With assisted stretching, your body receives the resistance feedback it needs to lengthen muscles and relieve tight joints for increased range of motion, flexibility, pain relief, and more that supports an active lifestyle.
We recommend that clients wear clothing they would feel comfortable stretching in such as loose, soft clothing, or something they would wear to workout or do yoga in for maximum comfort during your assisted stretching session.
The needs of every individual are unique but consistency offers the best results. We offer convenient membership packages to accommodate any lifestyle, goals, and budget.
Assisted stretching can reduce and relieve pain by targeting muscle spasms, sore and tight joints and muscles, and more. Assisted stretching may be able to relieve both chronic and acute pain.
We welcome people of all ages! Anyone of any age can benefit from assisted stretching. Anyone under the age of 18 will need to be accompanied by a parent or guardian who will have to sign our waiver.
All our stretch therapists are heath-care practitioners licensed with the state of Arizona(or nationally), whether they are massage therapists, personal trainers, physical therapy assistants, or yoga teachers. Each Stretch therapist also undergoes a multiple day training and certification process (both online and in person) where they learn the iFlex stretch and evaluation process. You can trust that our Stretch Therapists are knowledgeable and sensitive to your individual needs.
