Stretch It Out!

Continued from our Retreat & Renew Daily Tip.

By Dr. Raymond Hall, DC, Santa Monica Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Group

Plan on doing some simple exercises that slowly warm-up the muscles and joints, gradually increasing your speed and range of each joint’s motion over a course of at least 30 to 60 seconds per body part.

Static stretch	Dynamic stretch

To more accurately describe this type of dynamic stretch exercise, I have coined the term “PJME” or Progressive Joint Movement Exercises. You’ll see that PJME will truly “warm-up” the body, increasing blood flow and stimulate nerve receptors that cause muscles to activate and deactivate correctly, lessening the chances of injury during your sport and improving your agility, timing, and rhythm.

A good warm-up usually lasts at a minimum of 5-10 minutes, and YES , this includes you golfers as well! Good examples of Dynamic stretches are Jumping Jacks, Carioca Drill, and Progressive Arm Circles, just to name a few. This information will help you improve your body dynamics and decrease your injuries!