Originally Posted by
DnvrFox
It is a conundrum to me, because I have read that stretching cold muscles before is not beneficial, but stretching warm muscles afterwards is. Yet, at the same time, during my recovery from back surgery, I was given stretches to do by the phys therapist. Does one do warm-up stretches to then do stretches?
To me, whatever works . . . .
I think someone touched on this in one of my 'rotator cuff' threads, or I read it somewhere else in all my research ---- something about the first stretch being a warm-up for the ones that follow, and so it should be done slowly and carefully.