Sport Physical Therapies: Analysis of Stretching Before Exercise

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the role of stretching in sports physical therapies, focusing on the benefits and risks associated with pre-exercise stretching. It evaluates the impact of stretching on muscle flexibility, athletic performance, and injury prevention. The report references clinical evidence suggesting that while stretching can enhance flexibility and potentially contribute to injury prevention when combined with warm-ups and balance training, it may not always prevent soreness or improve performance levels. Various stretching methods, such as static, passive, and PNF techniques, are discussed, along with their respective advantages and disadvantages. The report concludes that further research is needed to fully understand the effects of stretching on injury prevention among athletes and emphasizes the multifactorial nature of sports-related injuries.

Sport physical therapies.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
It is generally accepted that the enhancing the flexibility of the muscles and the tendon units
can particularly enable an improved performance as well as can reduce the number of injuries.
The stretching is specifically involved in the warm-ups as well as in cooling down the exercises.
It is been recommended that stretching can involves a healthy action or impacts on the
prevention of injury. The clinical evidences recommended that the stretching not only prevent
the injuries but it can also reduce the performance levels among people. Some part of these such
contradictions can be illustrated by the several activities of the sports as well as the wide-ranging
group of athlete’s analysis. In this, the activities of the sports generally requesting an enhanced
flexibility like the gymnastic, ice skating, dancing as well as the impose pre-exercise stretching
in order to optimize the performance levels. In this, the slow stretch-shortening cycle in sports
like cycling or jogging, there is no other scientific information is present which depicts the
positive impacts of stretching on the various performances, the prevention of injuries and their
recovery. This report will cover the various positive as well as negative aspects of stretching
prior to exercise (Chadwick, 2020).
MAIN BODY
The concept here involves stretching a healthy muscle prior to exercise does not avoid or
prevent the soreness or an injury. Muscles are generally made up of packages of the minute
fibres. In a typical exercise associated strain among muscles, these particular fibres can
effectively develop the microscopic tears. In this, the stretching prior to exercise should make the
muscles of an individual more pliable as well as are less likely to tear. Doing exercise can
generally warm up to get the flow of blood into the major groups of the muscles as well as can
loosen the joints as well. In this, the stretching can involve the various benefits such as it can
improves the flexibility (Opplert, Babault). A flexibility is generally an intrinsic property of the
body tissues which can regulates the variety of motion that are particularly attainable without
having an injury at a joint or a group of joints. There are various methods of stretching which are
particularly aimed at enhancing the flexibility such as passive, static, isometric, ballistic as well
as proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF). In this, the Passive as well as the PNF
techniques generally needs other person with some specific skills (Collin, 2019).

The proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation techniques might elevate the risk of having
injuries because of the resulting enhancement in the tolerance of stretching. That particular
method is quite effective to enhance the variety of motion. Static stretching is specifically the
easiest as well as the most frequently used method. In this, the practice of ballistic stretching has
instigated some damage among the connective tissue as well as has fallen out of favour. Another
benefit the stretching can involve is the stretching as well as the warm-up in avoiding or
preventing the injuries. The stretching can generally enable a growth in the very local
temperature among the muscles which ae stretched (Stanton, 2021).
Moreover, the stretching can effectively cause an elevation in the muscular tension that
includes an interruption of the circulation of blood, therefore it is particularly a reverse effect to
what is being analysed. In this, the preparation of the activity of athlete more often involves both
the stretching as well as the warm-ups, can making it quite difficult to assess the independent
impacts on the prevention of injury (Faelli, Panascì, Ferrando, Bisio, Filipas, Ruggeri, Bove).
The stretching can effectively enhance the flexibility but it has not been expressed to avoid or
prevent the soreness of the muscles. In this, in combination with the warm-ups, the strengths as
well as the balance trainings, the stretching seems to avoid or prevent the ankle as well as the
knee injuries. However, but the independent influences of the specific warm-ups as well as the
stretching are not particularly determined (Allison, 2021).
In this, there are the three major benefits of pre-exercise stretching which can particularly
involves are as detailed below:
Enhanced flow of blood: It is specifically the first thing ever which the stretching can do is
to enhance the flow of blood.
Enhance the performance: In this, the stretching can cause the muscles to relax as well as
lengthen which results in the capability to enhance the engagement of muscles (Behm,
Blazevich, Kay, McHugh). It can specifically increase the circulation of the body by enhancing
the flow of blood throughout the body.
Enhances the range of motion as well as the flexibility: In this, the stretching in a very
proper way can loosen up the muscles and tendon as well.
The disadvantages that are involved in the pre-exercise stretching is the stretches generally
targets the particular muscle groups using the jerky movements (The effect of stretching on

sports performance and the risk of sports injury, 2005). However, the body is unable to fully
relax and an individual put strong pressure on their muscles as well as the connective tissues.
CONCLUSION
Stretching is important to an athletic performance by enhancing the mobility of muscle-joint.
In this, the high lack of mobility can enhance the developing risk of injury. The active range of
motion is generally higher than the static range of motion due to an improved elasticity of the
tissue as well as to the easing of opposing muscles during vigorous activity. A qualitative
flexibility is quite essential in the various activities of sports like gymnastic, diving, ice skating
as well as dance. There are several theories which particularly illustrates how the performance
could be cooperated, the rate of injury can be unaffected as well as an even enhancement as an
outcome of stretching exercises. These theories can involve the reduction of the joint
proprioception as well as reduction of the capability of tendon and the muscle tissue to absorb
the energy, consequently leading to an injury. In conclusion, there is no adequate information to
discontinue monotonous pre- or post-practice stretching to avoid or prevent an injury among
recreational athletes. Further analysis is required to estimate the real consequence of stretching
among sports. In this, the aetiology of particular injuries is specifically multifactorial. Taking out
only stretching as well as investigating its role on the incidence of several injuries is a rather thin
viewpoint on this particular issue.

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