From Reuters online…
Stretches before running have no impact on injury: study
NEW YORK | Thu Feb 17, 2011 8:15pm EST
(Reuters Life!) - It makes no difference if you stretch or not before a run, because stretching won't affect your risk of injury, according to a study.
"There is a lot of controversy about this," Daniel Pereles, from George Washington University, told Reuters Health.
"Some insist you need to stretch, others say you don't, and every time I tried to assess a study on this I found that the authors were extrapolating the results from gymnasts or wrestlers or soccer players or other sprinting or short distance athletes, and nothing was related to running.
"I just wanted to know whether stretching before going for a run would be beneficial for recreational runners like myself."
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