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Clarifying my typos: IF NEURAL tissue is close to the inflammation site, stretching may help, among other things, move inflamatory exudates/fluid around to other areas and create adhesions in other tissues such as neural tissue later. The study I quoted is not indexed in medline because JOSPT has not all their abstract indexed yet. You would have to look for the paper. The study has many limitations, but made me aware that athletes can have say, Positive Straight Leg Raise test which is usually due to previous injury that affected the sciatic or other nerve. The study proposed to treat hamstring strain but I think that what they were really treating was neural adhesions from previous injuries with a "slump stretch" they designed. WILL Joe Joe, I am not aware of any study comparing before versus after exercise stretching that I can really recommend. I do know this: Stretching in the inflammatory phase can help SPREAD inflammatory exudates to other areas and cause adhesions. If never tissue is close adhesion and neural tension will follow. Stretching people with adhesions on muscle or neural tissue, helps their pain. See: Wbright, JOSPT, 1989. Hamstring muscle injury. Hope I was of any help. Will