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Meta-analysis reveals strength training substantially reduces sports and overuse injuries in athletes, indicating targeted exercise programs outperform routine stretching.
Despite a few outlying studies, consistently favourable estimates were obtained for all injury prevention measures except for stretching. Strength training reduced sports injuries to less than 1/3 and overuse injuries could be almost halved.
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