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Stretching may provide a variety of benefits. People can perform stretches anywhere and at any time. Doing so regularly may help increase flexibility and reduce the risk of injury. Share on Pinterest ...

Bend down and touch your toes. Touching your toes, like all other bend-and-hold moves, requires our muscles to stretch. “Flexibility is the amount of stretch that a given muscle allows,” explains ...

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MSU junior Morgan Hogue (left) and research engineer Dan Schwendtner (right) monitor a carbon fiber stretching machine in Doug Cairn’s lab on Nov. 9, 2022. Photo Credit, all images: MSU/Colter ...