The Stretching & Sports Injury Report
Over 125 free articles on stretching, flexibility and sports injury management.
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How to Improve Your Flexibility
7 tips for improving your flexibility, even when you think you can’t improve your flexibility.
Top 10 Best Stretching Books
See what books I refer to for everything there is to know about stretching.
Stretching and Muscle Growth
Discover how stretching can explode your muscle growth.
The 5 Best Desk Stretches
Use these stretches while sitting at your desk or in the office.
12 Benefits of Stretching
The truth about how stretching and flexibility training really prevents injury and improves athletic performance.
How to do the Splits
10 tips for achieving the splits without injury or pain.
Stretching for Chronic Pain
Reduce your chronic pain by avoiding these 3 common stretching mistakes.
How to Stretch Properly
Answers to common stretching questions to make sure you’re stretching properly.
Understanding the Stretch Reflex
What is the Stretch Reflex and how can you use it to improve your flexibility?
Stretching for Recovery and Injury Rehab
Speed up your recovery with the right type of stretching.
What is PNF Stretching?
Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) stretching explained.
Stretching Mistakes
8 common stretching mistakes most people make… And how to avoid them.
What is Dynamic Stretching?
The 4 types of dynamic stretching and dynamic stretching examples.
Stretching and Muscle Fascia
What is muscle fascia and how does it affect your flexibility and the way you stretch?
What is Static Stretching?
The 5 types of static stretching and static stretching examples.
Is Stretching Dangerous?
Good Stretch? Bad Stretch? How to decide for yourself.
Debunking Stretching Hype Debunked
How poor selection of scientific data and the misinterpretation of that data has lead to many false statements about stretching.
What is a Warm-Up?
Warm-up properly and reduce the risk of sports injury with these warm-up exercises and stretches.
What is the FITT Principle?
Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type… and how they relate to cardio, strength, stretching and injury prevention.
Sports Massage
Sports massage for recovery, injury rehab and improved performance. The benefits, types and uses of sports massage therapy.
Muscle Cramps and Spasms
What causes muscle cramps and spasms? Plus muscle cramp treatment, prevention and stretching guidelines.
Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS)
Discover how to use gentle aerobic and stretching exercises to reduce the pain of Fibromyalgia.
Cool Down Exercises
Learn how to cool down properly to recover faster and avoid injury. Includes cool down examples and exercises.
Sore Muscles and DOMS
16 tips to prevent and treat delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS), plus sore muscle treatment and relief.
Coffee is BAD for Flexibility
Have a listen to what a few of my favorite authors have to say about coffee.
Dehydration and Heat Injuries
Heat injuries, heat exhaustion and heat stroke – Tips for training & playing in the heat.
Bursitis Treatment
Discover the causes behind bursitis, plus information on what bursitis is and the anatomy involved.
Overtraining Syndrome
Use this quick-reference checklist to identify 23 warning signs and symptoms of overtraining.
Pulled Muscles, Muscle Strain and Scar Tissue Treatment
What is scar tissue and how does it affect recovery and re-injury of pulled muscles and muscle strain injuries?
Muscle Bruises and Contusions
Treatment and massage tips to speed up recovery and get rid of bruises fast.
Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
Discovery the causes behind repetitive strain injury, plus effective treatment and prevention strategies.
Stress Fractures
Discover the causes behind stress fractures, plus prevention and treatment strategies.
Core Stability
Maximize your core stability and prevent sports injury.
Cross Training
What is cross training and how can it prevent sports Injury?
Aquatic Therapy
How to use use aquatic therapy and deep water running for injury rehabilitation and fitness.
Plyometric Exercises
What is Plyometric Training and how do you use it to develop maximum power and strength.
Interval Training
Discover how to use interval training to get super fit and strong.
Circuit Training
Use circuit training to improve all-round fitness and prevent sports injury.
Strength Training
What is Strength Training, and how does it prevent sports injury?
Back Pain Stretches
How to stretch your back with the 6 best back stretches for back pain relief.
Hernia Causes, Prevention and Treatment
Discover what causes hernia, the different types, and hernia prevention and treatment tips.
Sciatica Pain and Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment
Sciatica pain treatment, prevention and rehabilitation guidelines for sciatic nerve pain relief.
Treating Scoliosis
Stretching and strengthening exercises to help with scoliosis and sideways curvature of the spine.
6 Best Sciatica Stretches
Stretches for sciatica to improve your hip and buttocks flexibility and relieve tight sciatic nerve pain (includes Photos and Videos).
Side Stitch (exercise-related transient abdominal pain)
Discover the causes behind Side Stitches, their treatment and prevention.
Rotator Cuff Injury, Tear and Strain
Prevention, treatment and rehabilitation guidelines for rotator cuff tendinitis and shoulder injury.
Golfer's Elbow
A guide to the treatment and prevention of golfer’s elbow and pain elbow.
Separated Shoulder and AC Joint Injury Explained
Discover the causes behind a Separated Shoulder, plus the correct treatment and prevention strategies.
6 Best Rotator Cuff Stretches
Rotator cuff stretching exercises to improve your shoulder flexibility and relieve tight shoulder muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
Thrower's Elbow
A Guide to the Treatment and Prevention of Thrower’s Elbow (AKA Pitcher’s Elbow).
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)
Includes causes, symptoms, anatomy, plus exercises and stretches to treat and prevent carpal tunnel syndrome.
Tennis Elbow
A guide to the treatment and prevention of tennis elbow and elbow injury.
Frozen Shoulder Pain
Treatment and prevention tips for frozen shoulder pain and adhesive capsulitis.
De Quervain’s Syndrome
Discover the causes behind De Quervain’s syndrome, plus effective treatment and prevention strategies.
Groin Strain Treatment
Learn the causes behind a pulled groin muscle, plus treatment and prevention tips for groin strain injury.
Hamstring Strain and Pulled Hamstring Injury Treatment
Discover the causes behind hamstring injury, and what you can do to treat it and prevent it.
6 Best Hamstring Stretches
Hamstring stretching exercises to improve your hamstring flexibility and relieve tight hamstring muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
Osteitis Pubis Self Treatment
Osteitis pubis anatomy, causes, risk factors and prevention tips, plus short term and long term treatment strategies.
What is Iliopsoas Tendinitis?
Discover what causes iliopsoas tendonitis and how to treat it. Includes iliopsoas muscle anatomy, symptoms and treatment guidelines to fix iliopsoas pain.
What is Piriformis Syndrome?
Discover what causes piriformis syndrome and how to treat it. Includes piriformis muscle anatomy, symptoms and treatment guidelines to fix piriformis pain.
6 Best Piriformis and Glute Stretches
Piriformis and Glute stretches to improve your piriformis flexibility and relieve tight glute muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
Sacroiliac Joint Pain, Dysfunction and SI Joint Stretches
Treatment and prevention tips plus stretching and strengthening exercises for sacroiliac dysfunction and sacroiliac joint pain.
6 Best Quad and Hip Flexor Stretches
Quad and Hip Flexor stretches to improve your quadriceps flexibility and relieve tight hip muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
6 Best Groin Stretches
Groin stretching exercises to improve your inner thigh flexibility and relieve tight adductor muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
ACL Injury and Anterior Cruciate Ligament Sprain
Prevent ACL injury and recover quickly from an ACL tear or sprain with these prevention and treatment tips.
Meniscus Tear and Torn Knee Cartilage
Meniscus tear causes, prevention and risk factors, plus rehabilitation exercises for torn knee meniscus.
Patellar Tendinitis (Jumper’s Knee)
Patellar tendinitis causes, prevention and risk factors, plus rehabilitation exercises and stretches.
MCL Injury and Medial Collateral Ligament Sprain
Prevent MCL injury and recover quickly from a MCL tear or sprain with these prevention and treatment tips.
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS)
PFPS causes, prevention and risk factors, plus rehabilitation exercises and stretches.
Osgood-Schlatter Disease (OSD)
Osgood-Schlatter causes, treatment, prevention and risk factors, plus rehabilitation exercises and stretches.
Runner's Knee (Chondromalacia Patellae)
Stretches and exercises to treat and prevent runner’s knee. Plus, runner’s knee anatomy, causes, symptoms and risk factors.
Iliotibial Band Syndrome (ITBS) and Lateral Knee Pain
Treat and prevent lateral knee pain caused by iliotibial band syndrome.
Ankle Sprain Treatment and Recovery
Step-by-step ankle sprain treatment guidelines for a complete sprained ankle recovery.
Achilles Tendon Rupture and Tendonitis Treatment
Step-by-step treatment procedures for Achilles tendon rupture and Achilles tendonitis.
6 Best Shin Splint Stretches
Stretches for shin splints to improve your lower leg flexibility and relieve tight shin splints muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
Ankle Synovitis and Ankle Joint Effusion
What is Ankle Synovitis? Discover correct prevention, treatment and recovery strategies, plus strength exercises & ankle stretches.
What is Plantar Fasciitis?
Discover what causes plantar fasciitis and how to treat it. Includes plantar fasciits anatomy, symptoms and treatment guidelines to heal plantar fasciitis.
6 Best Plantar Fasciitis Stretches
Stretches for plantar fasciitis to improve your ankle and plantar fascia flexibility and relieve tight foot arches (includes Photos and Videos).
6 Best Calf and Achilles Stretches
Calf and Achilles stretches to improve your Achilles flexibility and relieve tight calf muscles (includes Photos and Videos).
Treating Compartment Syndrome
Discover the causes behind compartment syndrome, plus effective treatment and prevention strategies.
What are Shin Splints?
Discover what causes shin splints and how to prevent them. Includes shin splints anatomy, common training errors and guidelines to help prevent shin splints.
What is Pronation and Supination?
Identify Pronation and Supination and choose the right shoes to support your foot type.
Morton’s Neuroma
Discover the causes behind Morton’s Neuroma, plus treatment and prevention tips.
What is Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome (TTS)?
Discover the causes behind Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome, anatomy involved, plus correct treatment and prevention strategies.