{"id":361,"date":"2010-11-01T22:44:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T21:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-03-24T01:56:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T00:56:48","slug":"does-stretching-reduce-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/01\/does-stretching-reduce-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Does stretching reduce injury?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/01\/does-stretching-reduce-injury\/nov-cover\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-362\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-362\" title=\"nov cover\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2010\/11\/nov-cover.gif\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Stretching, or not, has been a controversial issue.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s BJSM\u00a0helps to unravel (or add to)\u00a0this puzzle.<\/p>\n<p>In an entirely web-based study (that gained\u00a0awareness through media coverage), 2377 physically active adults were recruited in an effort to determine whether stretching modifies injury risk and soreness.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict? In the short-medium term stretching reduces the risk of soreness and does not reduce the all-injury risk.<\/p>\n<p>For a link to this article and to make up your own mind, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/current\" target=\"_blank\">November\u00a0 BJSM<\/a>.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stretching, or not, has been a controversial issue. This month&#8217;s BJSM\u00a0helps to unravel (or add to)\u00a0this puzzle. In an entirely web-based study (that gained\u00a0awareness through media coverage), 2377 physically active adults were recruited in an effort to determine whether stretching modifies injury risk and soreness. The verdict? In the short-medium term stretching reduces the risk [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2010\/11\/01\/does-stretching-reduce-injury\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[655,8272,514,1812,1813,1372],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debates","tag-exercise","tag-injury-prevention","tag-internet","tag-november-issue","tag-soreness","tag-stretching"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}