The main thing was it wasn't the flexor tendon, the ligament or anything like that.

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For example, I'm already six weeks into an excruciating program of stretches called Flexor.

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Francisco was diagnosed with a mild strain of the flexor pronator in his surgically repaired right elbow.

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Stretching the Flexor way involves repeatedly holding body turns while challenging your balance.

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Rice immediately underwent surgery on his flexor tendon not his ligament.

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The tour of South Africa has already been hit by injuries to skipper Ricky Ponting (abdominal muscle strain), all-rounder Andrew Symonds (hip flexor strain) and Stuart Clark (rib bruising).

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With Golden State losing Lee to a torn hip flexor and the Nuggets getting top rebounder and energizer Kenneth Faried back from a sprained ankle, this one looked like a mismatch, even Curry acknowledged.

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So far, I like Flexor a lot.

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Ashton said the Barkley injury, a strained hip flexor, was just another piece of bad luck for the team, coming after the injury that ruled Dave Strettle out of the tournament altogether, and Wilkinson out of the first two games - all three of them non-contact training incidents.

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