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. 2013 Jul 18;65(3):302. doi: 10.3138/ptc.65.3.cochrane

What Does the Cochrane Collaboration Say about Stretching Exercises?

PMCID: PMC3740997  PMID: 24403702

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Katalinic OM, Harvey LA, Herbert RD, et al. Stretch for the treatment and prevention of contractures. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;(9):CD007455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007455.pub2 Medline:20824861

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McNeely ML, Campbell K, Ospina M, et al. Exercise interventions for upper-limb dysfunction due to breast cancer treatment. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010;(6):CD005211 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005211.pub2 Medline:20556760

Romano M, Minozzi S, Bettany-Saltikov J, et al. Exercises for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012;8(8):CD007837 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD007837.pub2 Medline:22895967

Yeung SS, Yeung EW, Gillespie LD. Interventions for preventing lower limb soft-tissue running injuries. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2011;(7):CD001256 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD001256.pub2 Medline:21735382

The Cochrane Collaboration is an international not-for-profit and independent organization dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews of health care interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. For more information, visit www.cochranecollaboration.org.


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