The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
And of course, the other forms of stretching that are known to be effective and important, such as dynamic and ballistic stretching. Again, stretching protocols that involve a lot of momentum in order to improve range of motion for performance of particular types of work that one is about to embark on.
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I think that most physios out there and certainly the ones that I spoke to, Dr. Andy Galpin, Dr. Kelly Starrett, and a few others point to the fact that doing some safe dynamic and ballistic stretching prior to, say, a resistance training session, or maybe even prior to a cardiovascular training session can be useful both in terms of range of motion effects and in terms of neural activation effects.
And similarly, there are a lot of data pointing to the fact that doing some dynamic or even ballistic stretching prior to skill training, or cardiovascular, or weight training can be beneficial in part to warm-up the relevant neural circuits, joints, and connective tissue, and muscles, and as well to perhaps improve range of motion or ability to perform those movements more accurately, with more stability, and therefore with more confidence.