The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
And so, here it appears again that static stretching is sort of rising to the top of the list as the optimal approach relative to all other stretching approaches, at least in the context of increasing limb range of motion.
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And it appears that the best way to do that is going to be static stretching of some kind, which raises the question of how often to do that static stretching and how long to hold those static stretches.
Static stretching appears to be at least among the more useful forms of stretching. So, low or zero momentum stretching typically at end range of motion.
but in terms of increasing limb range of motion in the long-term of truly becoming more flexible as opposed to transiently more flexible, static stretching, which includes PNF, appears to be the best route to go.
Static stretching, however, gave the greatest degree of gains in limb range of motion.