Updated: “Stretch doesn’t always feel good”

Just a heads up that I have rewritten half of my recent post, “Stretching doesn’t always feel good.” This significant rejiggering was 100% powered by reader comments, all from folks with fibromyalgia and hypermobility/EDS:

“It just hurts too much. Usually too sore!”

“I hit the end range of my joint miles long before I feel any stretch.”

The post did mention both conditions, but only as potential factors in more exotic vulnerability to muscle stimulation — not the more obvious, simple reality for some of these patients: stretch hurts and/or it’s just a nothing burger.

So that’s tuned up now. And I re-wrote everything else under the heading “Unpleasant stretch has many other possible explanations.”

Also, this topic is now properly integrated into my main stretching article.