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Advice to improve your movement, fitness, and overall health from the world's #1 in orthopedics.

How Much Do You Know about Stretching?

Does stretching prevent sports injuries? Can stretching make you taller? Take our quiz to test your knowledge.

Advice to improve your movement, fitness, and overall health from the world's #1 in orthopedics.

Stretching is a crucial aspect of physical fitness. And yet as much as we hear about how important it is, many of us hold ideas about stretching that aren’t entirely accurate.
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Can you tell stretching fact from fiction? Patrick Vignona, PT, MSPT, SCS, certified MDT, a clinical specialist with the Tisch Sports Performance Center at HSS, clears up commonly held stretching myths and truths.

Published 4/2/2021

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