Stretching: To do or not to do, that is the question

Stretching. We all know the word and we’ve all done stretching throughout our lives. Take your neck for example. If you don’t have a good night’s sleep you might wake up with a stiff neck which may hurt to turn or even worse, it could cause one of those dreaded headaches that you just can’t shake. So, what do you do? You try and stretch your neck because you know that it might get rid of that headache or pain you get when you try and look around to see if the boss is watching so you can continue shopping online.

So what does stretching actually do for us?

Let me give you a quick biology lesson.