USATF stretch study (Read 578 times)

Carl A

posted: 9/27/2007 at 1:39 PM

I just joined a stretch study that's being conducted by USA Track & Field. It's a three-month program designed to see if stretching before running causes or reduces injuries. Though I'm suspecting that stretching is going to correlate with more injuries, I got randomly put into the stretching group! However, I'm hoping that by participating I'll find out something I didn't know before.

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posted: 9/27/2007 at 2:00 PM

Quote from Carl A on 9/27/2007 at 1:39 PM:

I just joined a stretch study that's being conducted by USA Track & Field. It's a three-month program designed to see if stretching before running causes or reduces injuries. Though I'm suspecting that stretching is going to correlate with more injuries, I got randomly put into the stretching group! However, I'm hoping that by participating I'll find out something I didn't know before.

I considered joining it, but the time for the program didn't really fit very well with my seasonal goals so I decided to look into whether it was still going on come the end of this year/beginning of next year.

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