Stretching for Functional Flexibility is a reference guide for the safe, effective, and efficient application of stretching exercises to improve range of motion and movement potential. The text provides all of the information necessary to design and implement a safe and effective stretching program. This book also covers the origin, insertion, innervation, and action of each muscle for greater understanding of the larger context of the human musculoskeletal system and biomechanics. Stretching for Functional Flexibility logically begins with the fundamentals needed to understand stretching, then covers basic stretches and stretching programs, and ends with special applications.