Re: Is stretching useful?

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Static stretching is as bad as ballistic stretching to cold muscles. "Scientists" should WATCH and OBSERVE the animal world stretch! Animals perform gentle, dynamic stretching movements designed to detangle muscle adhesions. Here is the program I have developed over the past 15 years to prevent injuries in elite athletes like my two-time national champion snowboarder and the rest of my team members ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpLsUMvzGz8..."But many people remain fiercely attached to their stretching routines.

“It was really hard to recruit runners†who, used to stretching, would

agree to be randomly assigned to the nonstretching group, said Alan

Roth, a former board member of USA Track and Field and coordinator of

the study. Once they understood that they might be required to not

stretch for three months, they declined to participate. It took the

researchers more than two years to coax enough runners to join and

complete the study, generating enough data for meaningful results. [as a rule people are lazy and don't spend time doing things that do not benefit them like stretching]...One anomalous finding of the USA Track and Field study was that runners

who were used to stretching and were assigned to the nonstretching

group became injured at a disproportionately high rate. Almost 23

percent of them wound up hurting themselves during the three months.

But no experts associated with the study or who have read the results

believe that this finding intimates that stretching had been keeping

them uninjured in the past. [disproportionately more??? narrow-mindedness at work] [an intelligent voice speaks]...“In all our involvement with elite athletes now, we don’t do this kind

of static stretching anymore,†Dr. Tucker said. Instead, the best

science suggests that an ideal preworkout routine “consists of a very

easy warm-up, followed by a gradual increase in intensity and then

dynamic stretching,†he said. Dynamic stretching, or exercises that

increase your joints’ range of motion via constant movement, does not

seem to invoke the inhibitory reflex of static stretching, Dr. Tucker

said. When “you stretch through movement, you involve the brain much

more, teaching proprioception and control, as well as improving

flexibility.â€Dr. Todd Turnbull, DCFrom: Kalb <drjohnkalb@...>Subject: Is stretching useful?"Oregondcs Chiropractors" < >Cc: " Kalb" <john@...>Date: Saturday, September 4, 2010, 12:10 PM

This may confirm why I don't usually like to stretch very much.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/01/phys-ed-does-stretching-before-running-prevent-injuries/?ex=1299038400 & en=6d78095ecb09d417 & ei=5087 & WT.mc_id=HL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M165-ROS-0910-L1 & WT.mc_ev=click

M Kalb MS DC

Wellness Chiropractor and Health Coach

www.DrKalb.com 541.488.3001