Thanks for sharing. Interestingly written article with the very specific choice of two academics for obvious political reasons.

It can be difficult to determine when stretching is actually harmful to chronic injuries. It took me years of working backwards from being an amateur bicycle racer in peak athletic form to realized how my foam roller and stretching routine was making me worse over all in contrast to just my limited exercise routine. Even with a physical therapist putting together a stretching regime, my torso is so messed up from a broken neck and back that I get minor injuries constantly from all kinds of activities. It’s just an extreme example of someone that has been taco’d backwards; scorpion’d really (6 vertebrae, 4 ribs, scapula, etc.). Not sharing to make excuses for the rest of ya, but for anyone in similar chronic circumstances. I have pushed HARD to get better. Hard enough to break bones from pushing too hard. Some things can’t be fixed and limits must be discovered.