Pro-Active Wellness Center

After 15 years of co-owning the Pro-Active Wellness Center, Dr. Ryan Perry has decided to leave and join Dr. Frank Amato at The Center for Orthopedic and Athletic Injuries in Hermosa Beach. The staff at both practices will be available to assist you with anything you may need to transition with Dr. Perry to his new office.

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Or reduce the risk. Peep the evidence (or lack thereof). All the way back to 1999...

“The basic science literature supports the epidemiological evidence that stretching before exercise does not reduce the risk of injury.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10593217

“Due to the paucity, heterogeneity and poor quality of the available studies no definitive conclusions can be drawn as to the value of stretching for reducing the risk of exercise-related injury.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12909434

“There is not sufficient evidence to endorse or discontinue routine stretching before or after exercise to prevent injury among competitive or recreational athletes”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15076777

“Does not meaningfully reduce lower extremity injury risk”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1250267/

“There is no evidence in the literature for a preventive effect of stretching on the occurrence of athletic injuries.” https://sgsm.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/Zeitschrift/53-2005-1/3-2005-1.pdf

“Stretching before exercising does not seem to confer a practically useful reduction in the risk of injury”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12202327

“Our data do not support the use of stretching for injury prevention purposes, neither before or after exercise”
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/48/11/871

“Static stretching had no clear effect on all-cause or overuse injuries.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26642915

“ The literature fails to demonstrate any clear relationship between low levels of spine flexibility with LBP.”
https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5142/2/3/29
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