Originally Posted by
frogman
You're "assumption" that stretching cannot help to prevent injuries is just wrong. Its fine that you feel fine without doing stretching but don't try to convince others that it is not beneficial. I am not a doctor but my info is based on discussions with doctors and physical therapists that indicated plenty of evidence on this.
Sorry, dude, but I've researched this thoroughly, there just isn't any such evidence. Go ahead and try to find it, plenty of people recommending it, but no one able to cite any proof that it works. Just a bunch of conventional wisdom. And a general move away from recommending the stretching of cold muscles, where there was actual evidence it was causing, not preventing, injuries. I'm not going to link a bunch of studies, but this sums it up pretty well--it's probably not harmful, but no real benefit and a couple of drawbacks:
https://newcastlesportsmedicine.com....ries-evidence/
I think a lot of PT stuff is in the category of "we only have hammers, everything is a nail" type thing.
BTW, if you detect a note of bitterness here, it's real. Like I said, I find static stretching unpleasant, and believed people when they told me I needed to do it to prevent injury and promote performance. Turns out it does neither. I could have saved myself a fair amount of pain if I'd been more skeptical.