Curbside consult: Should people stretch before exercise?

Western Journal of Medicine

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 282-283

  Shrier, I ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ANALYSIS; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; HEALTH EDUCATION; LITERATURE; MUSCLE STRETCHING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SHORT SURVEY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ELASTICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPORT INJURY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; ELASTICITY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0035049455     PISSN: 00930415     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ewjm.174.4.282     Document Type: Short Survey

References (27)

1. A comparison of results of meta-analyses of randomized control trials and recommendations of clinical experts
2. The randomized controlled trial gets a middle-aged checkup
3. Problems in the "evidence" of "evidence-based medicine."
4. Stretching before exercise does not reduce the risk of local muscle injury: A critical review of the clinical and basic science literature
5. A randomized trial of preexercise stretching for prevention of lower-limb injury
6. Prevention of soccer injuries
7. Incidence of soccer injuries and their relation to training and team success
8. High-school football injuries: Effects of a post-halftime warm-up and stretching routine
9. Prevention of running injuries by warm-up, cool-down, and stretching exercises
10. The Ontario cohort study of running-related injuries
11. Predicting lower-extremity injuries among habitual runners
12. Relative risks for running and exercise injuries: Studies in three populations
13. A survey of running injuries in 1505 competitive and recreational runners
14. Thermal effects on skeletal muscle tensile behavior
15. Functional properties of knee ligaments and alterations induced by immobilization
16. The role of fatigue in susceptibility to acute muscle strain injury
17. Viscoelastic characteristics of muscle: Passive stretching versus muscular contractions
18. Muscle strain injuries
19. The positional stability of thick filaments in activated skeletal muscle depends on sarcomere length: Evidence for the role of titin filaments
20. Redistribution of sarcomere length during isometric contraction of frog muscle fibres and its relation to tension creep
21. Intersarcomere dynamics during fixed-end tetanic contractions of frog muscle fibers
22. The effect of tension of non-uniform distribution of length changes applied to frog muscle fibres
23. Contraction-induced injury to single fiber segments from fast and slow muscles of rats by single stretches
24. Mechanical and physiological responses to stretching with and without preisometric contraction in human skeletal muscle
25. Stretching exercises: Effect on passive extensibility and stiffness in short hamstrings of healthy subjects
26. Electromyographic investigation of muscle stretching techniques
27. The role of warmup in muscular injury prevention