The phrase "a feeling of stiffness" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a sensation of tightness or rigidity in muscles or joints, often experienced after physical activity or due to certain medical conditions.
Example: "After the workout, I experienced a feeling of stiffness in my legs that lasted for a couple of days."
Alternatives: "a sense of tightness" or "a sensation of rigidity."
A feeling of stiffness is an important predictor of disability, but the assumption that feeling stiff reflects actually being stiff has rarely been investigated.
Last, congruent auditory information applied with pressure to the spine modulates perception of the back, supporting the idea that a feeling of stiffness is a multisensory perceptual inference that serves bodily protection.
Indeed, further research is warranted to determine if this protective perceptual inference, e.g., a feeling of stiffness, results in protective behaviour such as movement avoidance in people with back pain and stiffness.
A common complaint is a feeling of stiffness in the morning or after rest.
Two months after the amputation the patient was seen at a follow up appointment complaining of some pain in the fifth metacarpal of the right hand a feeling of stiffness of the joints of the right hand.
The diagnosis trapezius myalgia was set if the findings neck pain, tightness of the trapezius muscle (i.e., a feeling of stiffness in the descending region of the trapezius muscle was reported by the subject at examination of lateral flexion of the head) and palpable tender parts in the trapezius muscle were all included.
Our results provide compelling evidence that a feeling of back stiffness relates poorly to biomechanical measures of back stiffness.
Muscles cease to tense up and neck, back, arm, hand, etc., muscles feel looser and without pain after an initial feeling of stiffness and discomfort.
Acute myalgia usually starts with a feeling of tiredness and stiffness.
The most common problems faced when waking up were a feeling of exhaustion, pain and stiffness, and an inability to get out of bed in the morning or get their days started without delay.
A feeling of joint stiffness has been shown to remain despite loss of the limb15 suggesting that the bodily feeling of stiffness can be independent to the biological state of the tissues.
