Fig. 1. The static stretching (A) and PNF stretching (B).
Table 1. Demography of subjects
Table 2. Descriptive statics of the finger to floor distance
Table 3. Differences in left and right weight distribution between pre and post intervention
Table 4 Differences in anterior-posterior weight distribution between pre and post intervention
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