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    Naw, if you feel a stretch you're not doing anything wrong. You just found something that is a bit tight.

    The goal with the mob is to move some of the little-booger-bones of the ankle, and get them unstuck from each other.

    I always caution folks not to get fixated on the idea of feeling a stretch, cuz sometimes you just don't. A lot of times the idea of the dorsiflexion mob gets morphed into a calf stretch, and you end up with things like night-splints and people thinking they have to keep their knees straight all night, or folks doing massive amounts of calf-stretches (knee straight) as though the achilles tendon were tight, when actually it isn't.

    Limitations from tight muscles can be easily confused with limitations caused by a stuck goober in the joint itself, and vice versa.

    It's ok to feel a stretch, I just emphasize that one doesn't NEED to feel a stretch in the corresponding muscle when dealing with a joint limitation.

    ETA: hip width, always pay attention to knee alignment, slight pigeon-toe to prevent falling into pronation during dorsiflexion
    Last edited by KnottedYet; 02-07-2011 at 07:04 PM.
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