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Answer 1

We thought that YES there was a clear question.

  • The population is any adults (or young, fit, healthy adults)
  • The intervention and comparator are stretching before exercise (but is this mainly about lab-based stretches before lab-induced muscle pain rather than real life stretching before playing football etc)
  • The "primary" outcome is muscle soreness 
  • Other outcomes are incidence of injury, athletic performance (but do they really include athletic performance) 

Notes: The review addresses a very broad question, therefore should be regarded as an exploratory review. Given this, a great deal of heterogeneity between included studies is to be expected therefore there should be a clear plan to investigate this. This does not appear to have been done. Also, it is implausible to draw firm conclusions from such a review. Fuller analysis and results are available in the Cochrane Review.