... pads or to sports fitness instructors who can develop a regime that will rectify their problem. What is flexibility? Flexibility is one of these physiological factors and has been described as the ability of skeletal muscle and tendon to lengthen (Gleim and McHugh 1997). There are two types of flexibility that can be measured for analysis. Static flexibility is the range of movement available to a joint or series of joints and dynamic flexibility is the ease of movement within that range of movement. These biomechanical factors and their relation to sports injuries stimulated considerable interest and extensive research has been conducted to try and explain these statements and to generate data that will provide meaningful evidence [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13]. Evidence that poor flexibility is a risk factor. A recent study examined the relationship between increasing hamstring flexibility and the result it had on ...

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