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jerfyesterday at 12:15 PM1 replyview on HN

"And vital for retaining and enhancing usable range of motion (not static stretching, still, but dynamic stretching / mobility under tension)."

I'm doing it for knee pain. It's possible it's a placebo because there is a slight strength training component to the whole thing (it's several exercises), although the knee pain has persisted through a lot of strengthening of my leg in general. This falls under "don't care" as the program as a whole works and I'm not worried enough about the details to try to optimize it. All the stretches fall under "dynamic stretching under tension" so maybe it's not something covered by the study you reference last.


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throwup238yesterday at 1:58 PM

It’s not a placebo. I’m not sure exactly which Chocrane review the GP is talking about but if it’s the one I’m thinking of, the headline is that stretching doesn’t help muscle soreness [1] (delayed onset muscle soreness specifically).

You should absolutely keep stretching to help with your injury, and there is decades of “sport science” to back that up.

[1] https://www.cochrane.org/evidence/CD004577_stretching-preven... - there’s another one about joint deformities which is far more interesting, but less relevant to this discussion