Stretching NOT good for you?

gwhite · Post by **gwhite** » Apr 18, 2005 14:00

Interesting news article -

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/art ... gament.htm

What is everyones take?

Post by **Thomas Kurz** » Apr 18, 2005 14:58

This might be a surprise--but only for those who have not read my book Stretching Scientifically ( http://www.stadion.com/stretch.html ). Read it and you will see that I told you so.

gwhite · Post by **gwhite** » Apr 18, 2005 15:13

I have read your book - but will sit down with it again tonight.

Taking anothe look at the article, could it be they are referring to the damage that can be done from excessive Static Stretching (and lack of dynamic stretches) prior to a work out session?

gw

Post by **Thomas Kurz** » Apr 18, 2005 16:13

Most likely. To make sure look up recent publications by lead researcher Stephen Thacker from Centers for Disease Control. Try Medline or PubMed ( http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi ) or just find the site of Centers for Disease Control.

Actually, at PubMed there is an abstract of an old (2004) article by Stephen Thacker and others on stretching at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/quer ... s=15076777 . Buy the original or e-mail the authors and you will know what they mean by stretching.