Curious what factors may be contributing to the rapid rise in elbow injury rate among youth baseball pitchers? This is what the researchers are saying: The risk factor with the strongest correlation to injury is amount of pitching. . . averaging more than 80 pitches per game almost quadrupled the chance of surgery and pitching competitively more than 8 months per year increased the odds of surgery by fivefold. Most alarming was the finding that a pitcher who regularly pitched with his arm fatigued was 36 times as likely to be in the surgery group. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435945/
Posted on: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:18:35 +0000
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