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What is Stretching?

Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific skeletal muscle is deliberately elongated to its fullest length in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and reaffirm comfortable muscle tone. The result is a feeling of increased muscle control, flexibility and range of motion. Read more...Click to read more below

Reasons done & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Reasons done # of patients Major Moderate Slight None Can’t tell # of patients evaluated by
Stiffness/Spasticity 28 5
Mobility 6 2
General health 4 0
Fingers curl 4 1
Slow my ALS progress 1 1

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Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
0 0%
Moderate
0 0%
Mild
3 43%
None
4 57%

Most commonly reported side effects

Muscle soreness
3 43%
Pain
1 14%
Fatigue
1 14%
  • Mild
  • Moderate
  • Severe

Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Doing Stretching (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other
1 100% Other: 100%

See all 1 patient who’ve stopped doing Stretching

Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Doing Stretching

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
1
3
13
15

Stopped Doing Stretching

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
1
0
0
0

Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Always
0 0%
Usually
6 86%
Sometimes
1 14%
Never
0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Very
0 0%
Somewhat
2 29%
A little
3 43%
Not at all
2 29%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

$200+
0 0%
$100-199
0 0%
$50-99
0 0%
$25-49
0 0%
< $25
3 43%

Report created on November 21, 2009.