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Sometimes it just feels so good to stretch!!!!!

As a sports medicine practice with DPT's and DO's, we get asked a lot of questions about stretching. Usually, people come to us for advice on different ways to stretch before or after a workout. Most of the time its because people feel tightness or pain and feel as though stretching would be the right way to approach their perceived tightness/pain.

We also get dozens of questions from people asking for beneficial stretches for a "pulled muscle"...

Can we ask you a few questions?

• Are you currently experiencing pain on the course?
• Have you stopped playing because of pain?
• Do you feel like every time you play, you always seem to feel stiff and tight?
• Do you feel like you're just caught up in an injury cycle you cannot escape?
• Do you feel your distance and endurance declining?

If you answered yes to one of these things then we would like to say 1) We're sorry you've been struggling with that and 2) We're really excited because...