----- Original Message -----
From: Margaret Westlake <meg_westlake@...>


> 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>>>


Makes sense to me,
I have a shoulder that is injured from free weight training, and a little too
much masculinity one day. Been hurting for over a month and the only thing I
can do to make it stop hurting is stretching it out. Just now starting to be
able to lift regular again, and at about 70 lbs lighter(for my safety). I was
quite worried I had damaged the rotator cuff, but becuase it started getting
better, just last week, with stretching, and the lighter weights are helping,
I think I just tore the muscle badly. Takes a lot of time for those muscles to
heal when you do something stupid.

Did a lot of ruunning though, and managed to knock 2 minutes per mile off my
time over 6 miles. Everything has, an upside.

Jerry Pridemore
Jerry@...

Trikes Rule!!!
Pictures of my Trike, and Trike info at:
www.JerryPridemore.com


> --- 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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