Many years ago I had some discomfort behind the knee and a physio diagnosed a nerve stretch to help.

The stretch was laying down and pulling the leg towards you and then pulling the foot downwards. I've seen some research on the slump test etc. trying to understand what he meant by nerve stretch.

What I wanted to understand is that I still get that pain now if I stretch the hamstrings a lot (due to my martial arts) with the knee straight. I guess I'm upsetting the nerve? Since I suffer from this discomfort will I always have to do the nerve stretch to reduce the discomfort or can it be treated to go away? ie to maintain muscle flexibility you need to stretch all the time, is that the same as the neural tension?

Thanks
David

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