Healthline

What’s the Difference Between Flexion and Extension?

Flexion or extension of a certain body part typically refers to joints. Flexing a joint usually means closing it, and decreasing the angle between the body parts, while extending a joint means opening ...
BMJ

SAGITTAL SPINAL CURVATURES IN MAXIMAL TRUNK FLEXION OF YOUNG FEMALE DANCERS

1 Chair of Sport Traumatology. University of San Antonio of Murcia, Murcia, Spain 2 Department of Physical Activity and Sports. University of San Antonio of Murcia, Murcia, Spain 3 Department of ...
Men's Health

What Flexion and Extension Means for Your Workouts

SPEND ENOUGH TIME in the gym (or consume enough fitness-related content online), and you’re sure to encounter plenty of physiology terms. If you’re not a trainer yourself or you never took any type of ...
RMD Open

Patient-tailored training programme on cardiorespiratory fitness, trunk strength and mobility leads to significantly better outcomes in individuals with axial spondyloarth…

Background Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) impairs trunk strength, mobility and cardiorespiratory fitness. Despite exercise ...