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flexor [′flek·sər]
(physiology)
A muscle that bends or flexes a limb or a part.


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Harris KD, Heer DM, Roy TC, Santos DM, Whitman JM, Wainner RS (2005) Reliability of a measurement of neck flexor muscle endurance.
Clinical research has proven that the overuse of the flexor muscles that close the hand, and under use of the extensor muscles, which open the hand, cause the hand to collapse in on itself, squeezing the carpal tunnel, restricting space and initiating the cycle of pain, numbing and weakness.
The front foot should be pointed straight ahead and your trailing knee extended to stretch the frontal thigh and hip flexor muscles.
 
 
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