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General Climbing Discussion

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Rock Climbing Does Not Increase Risk Of Osteoarthr 9-Nov-2006 At 2:24:58 PM AlanD
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On 8/11/2006 bigmike wrote:
>Similar to a study a while back that found that stretching before exercise
>had no impact on rate or frequency of injury. The study was done on army
>blokes in their early 20s.
>They should have tried it on desk jockeys in their 40s!

There have been several studies now, with results supporting the case that pre exercise stretching does not reduce the frequency of muscular type injuries, several valid scientific reasons for this I understand. The current recommendation is to perform a gentle warm up exercises (possibly called dynamic stretching), rather than doing actual static stretching.

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