Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) and its impact on vascular function

Abstract

Recent studies of intervention in sedentary subjects, or those with neurological lesions, suggest that increased motoractivity (exercise/physical activity), performed at moderate intensities and habitually, could have beneficial effects on thevascular function. However, the physiological effects of interventions conducted with facilitating techniques of the motoractivity, such as Kabat’s proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation techniques (PNF) on vascular function are unknown, eventhough such physiological effects are proposed in said postulates. This report presents the usefulness of PNF on vascularfunction in three healthy volunteers. The patterns of Kabat’s PNF increase, just like the models or contractile isotonic activityproposed in this test, the tension of vascular friction, which relates to better vascular function.