In the 10 years since the current concept series entitled “The Disabled Throwing Shoulder:
Spectrum of Pathology” was conceived and written, many studies have been reported that …

The purpose of this study was to quantify trunk axial rotation and angular acceleration in
pitching and batting of elite baseball players. Healthy professional baseball pitchers (n= 40) …

Purpose: To define the active‐assisted thoracolumbar ROM of both baseball pitchers and
position players and to compare these motions both within and between groups. Methods …

Accurate, high velocity throwing is a skill unique to humans among living species. It likely
provided an adaptive advantage for our hominin ancestors, either in the context of hunting …

Flexibility has long been recognized as an essential physical ability to be developed in both
youths and adults. The perceived importance of flexibility by health and fitness professionals …

9SM-iStock20183106v1 Lower extremity biomechanics can significantly affect the risk of
upper extremity injury in overhead throwing athletes, such as baseball and softball pitchers …

The overhead athlete with a painful shoulder may have many causative factors contributing
to the symptoms. This chapter will present an overview of the mechanisms through which …

Throwing ball is a complex movement in handball. Each throw is the result of a kinematic
chain that start with the position of the foot, its force of pushing, correlated with the movement …

Numerous sources state or infer that high volume baseball pitching and throwing
predisposes youth baseball players to a spectrum of “overuse” injuries. Rates of elbow and …

Motor activities of daily life or sports are characterized by complex 3D rotational movements
of the upper limbs can be done around distinct axes of rotation (i) joint (ii) inertia or (iii) …