I say to many of my clients ANY movement is good movement.  This is difficult to qualify sometimes as there are certain individuals whom take that as Carte Blanche to get straight back into full blown, high intensity full load of training.   However for most people trying to get the body out of pain and into feeling normal is difficult if they haven’t already had an active movement based regime in place already.  For these sorts of people MOVEMENT IS VITAL.  To move is to have blood flowing into areas and to keep elasticity of the all important muscles, tendons and fascia (soft tissues) at some sort of measurable level of operation.

Range of Motion exercises are not stretches – they are in fact ‘movements’.  Patterns of movement that keep our joint spaces open.  A full squat for example requires the knees to fully bend, hips to extend and the spine to flex.  If we don’t go into this range of motion often enough, our joints become unable to perform the movement with ease.   They are unused to moving across such a full arc of movement and so when they are required to do so, can become irritated and even broken if we do not have the correct support to enable the action.