Stretching legs may help prevent heart diseases, stroke and diabetes
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 decreasing their stiffness.
Passive stretching differs from active stretching in that the former involves an external force (another person or gravity) stretching you, whereas active stretching is performed on your own. The changes they observed in blood vessels could have implications for diseases, including the number one global killer, heart disease.
Release date: 2 July 2020
Source: The Physiological Society