Is stretching good or bad? Does it prevent injury? Does everyone need to do it?

Is stretching good or bad? Does it prevent injury? Does everyone need to do it? Can it actually increase you injury risk or is it just a waste of time?

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Online Physiotherapy

Put simply this is Physio done via either telephone or video over the internet. Skype and facetime are examples of this.

Contrary to popular belief online physiotherapy can be very effective and it can help the same injuries that face to face physio can help. I have helped many people with injuries such as disc prolapses, tennis elbow, neck pain and much more).