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PHYSICIAN AND SPORTSMEDICINE
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages 22-26Publisher
MCGRAW HILL HEALTHCARE PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2005.03.61
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Since the early 1980s, stretching has been promoted as a method to prevent injury and improve athletic performance. Although research suggests that this may be true, for regular stretching performed every day, an isolated act of stretching immediately before exercise likely has no effect on injury prevention and actually impairs performance in strength and power sports. This article highlights our current understanding of the effects of stretching both immediately before exercise and as a regular daily routine, and then illustrates how to apply these principles in a practice setting, using brief clinical vignettes.
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