Luke,
As Marco and others have said, there are different ways of stretching and
how long you stretch, and if you don't control this, then you do not control
the sample. This is what I mean.... 1538 people is a large sample; can you
tell me that they told each person to stretch exactly the same way?? Can you
say that these people are all similar in age?? Can you also say that they
did the same exercises at the same intensity after stretching?? Wouldn't
these be better controlled if we only had a small sample?? To me, it would
be too difficult to relate stretching to injury unless you control all these
factors, and you are not going to do this with such a large random sample!!
These are the things I wanted to ask Linda to clear up before I continued
any further.
I am aware of literature that suggest stretching doesn't do anything for
injury prevention, but I am also aware of literature that states stretching
does prevent injury. Does this mean one literature is wrong and the other is
right?? Of course not!!
Until we get more detail from Linda, it is useless talking about the RCT of
1538... as with your use of sarcasm, don't worry about it, I am Asian, and
we don't have sarcasm in Asian languages :P
Henry***
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