skinny.

Latest / Yoga Medicine

Tissue Stiffness - Friend or Foe?

Today hosts Tiffany and Katja discuss a topic near and dear to Katja: tissue stiffness. Claims about terms like stiffness and tension in the body can be confusing, so our goal with this episode is to clear up some of that confusion as well as leave some space for what we do not know yet. In this episode, we talk about terminology and physiology around tissue stiffness. We also talk about factors that influence stiffness and if stiffness is a friend or foe when it comes to athletic performance, injury risk, and disease of the musculoskeletal system.

Listen in to learn more about common tissue…

The skinny

The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.