OK, I don't have much time to address this right now and it's a big topic. But I will say that all of the stretching studies I have read give a recipe of stretches to a bunch of people that have nothing to do with their specific diagnoses of muscle imbalances. Do you lump all people with heart problems into the same category and give them all the same meds??

Clinically what I see is that a person who has been evaluated and given the appropriate stretches for their areas of deficiency have decreased pain and improved function. If you give stretches without evaluating their needs you're not doing them any good.

It's probably good that I don't have much time. I've likely already said everything that I need to say without boring everyone to death.