Ankle stretch, passive

The aforementioned technique may be modified to treat the uppermost muscles by raising the ankles toward the ceiling and having the patient push down toward the floor. The legs are allowed to move against an isokinetic resistance. The patient is now contracting the muscles closest to the table to relax the uppermost muscles by reciprocal inhibition. A passive stretch may be added at the end of either of these techniques. 

McNair PJ, Dombroski EW, Hewson DJ, et al. Stretching at the ankle joint viscoelastic responses to holds and continuous passive motion. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2001 33 354-358. 

Some research had shown the effectiveness of CPM in reducing passive ankle joint stiffness in healthy subjects (i.e. cyclic stretching) [4, 8] and also among patients with stroke [13]. 

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