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hold-relax

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hold-relax,
a technique of facilitating neuromuscular sensation and awareness, used in treating hypertonicity or motor dysfunction. It is often applied when there is muscle tightness on one side of a joint and when immobility is the result of pain.


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The discussion of prevention measures, however--although it is informative and includes progressive concepts such as hold-relax stretches and
contract-relax, hold-relax, slow-reversal-hold-relax), PNF is not just a method of developing mobility in the strict sense of the term.
 
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