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item type

a chapter in a book

author

William Sands

chapter

4.4

publisher

John Wiley and Sons

year

2011

page

p. 389

excerpt

The commonly accepted idea that increased ROM and stretching prior to activity prevents injuries has been challenged and found to be on the shakiest of scientific foundations, or to come from such a paucity of data that no reasonable conclusions can be drawn.

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