Very mild stretching or with just sore muscles is
good. Regular stretching with injured muscles is not
good. Sometimes its hard to tell sore from injured
and mild from normal. Mostly that takes practice.
Just be careful. Margaret

--- J Pridemore <prdmr@...> wrote:
> Only my experience here, but stretching reallys help
> me get the soreness out,
> and makes it so I can use the muscle without pain.
>
> I can't necessarily do any real work wih injured
> muscles, but it certainly
> helps make it less painful.
> This especially helps me with pinched nerves, and
> back stuff.
> Sometimes, I manage to unpinch the nerve.
>
> I am not much of an athlete, so others opinions may
> be better, but for me if
> it hurts I stretch it out a little to ease the pain.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: trivefan <jeff_ford@...>
> To: <louisvillerunnersclub@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 6:44 PM
> Subject: [Louisville Runners Club] (unknown)
>
>
> > Sciatica can sometimes be misinterpreted as
> hamstring strain. Also,
> > you should never stretch a strained muscle.
> Introduce stretching
> > only after the initial injury is healed.
>
>
>


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