Stretching won’t prevent tendon injuries
By Roxanne Nelson (Reuters Health) – – Tendon injuries are common in sports, and there are many schools of thought on how to avoid them. Shock absorbing insoles, and hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women, on the other hand, did offer protection for some, the researchers found. "Stretching is often viewed as an empirically accepted method to prevent sports injuries, including tendinopathy," write the authors, led by Janne A. Peters from the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. "However, there is no scientific evidence that confirms this," they point out in Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
