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Originally Posted by jawahir
not sure where you heard that but in my training and experience, that's untrue. you can stretch fascia. fascia is what holds muscle together. it is like a web, so it stretches all ways, but you do want to stretch slowly so as not to cause a tear, same with the muscle. look up myofascial release. it's all about stretching the fascia slowly to help release adhesions in the fascia. massage is great for sure! but stretching is also good.
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Okay - maybe I over stated it - but the stretching mechanism is different and the stretch is very little. More to the point for fascia connected to muscle attempts at stretching are likely to stretch the muscle first. Hence beating up the fascia is more likely to fix the problem you are aiming at.