Quote Originally Posted by davepleydell View Post
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
Neural tension is not really the result of the Nerve becoming short or strained, but rather the result of the tissues, proteins, matrix of chemicals that surround that nerve and the structures biomechnically and anatomically surrounding the nerves. What often happens with nerve stretch is the stretching of the material that is 'sticking' to the nerve in some way. So in essence you are freeing the nerve to move against surrounding tissues.

Because I do not know with certainty what was given, and what the current problem is, I can't say exactly what is going on. As well I do not understand this statement : "pulling the leg towards you and then pulling the foot downwards" how does one do this?

Regards