Little Leaguer Injury

Ulnar collateral ligament injury is a type of elbow injury that develops from repeated overhand throwing movements (overuse). This motion places a lot of stress on the two strong bands of tissue (ligaments) that hold your elbow joint in place. The ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) is a main ligament located on the inside of your elbow. Over time, repetitive overhand throwing can damage the UCL.

Baseball is America's pastime. Everyone in this country knows a person who plays the game and the struggles they face throughout their entire baseball endeavors. Baseball is an overhead throwing sport that requires countless amount of repetition in order to perfect the art of throwing a baseball with different spins and velocities. Because baseball has become a non-season based sport in this modern era, it has risen health risks to the elbows of athletes that play continuously. The Ulnar Collateral Ligament, commonly coined as the Tommy John Ligament, is the

Over the course of baseballs long existence it has been a very laid back sport with only minor injuries. But in the last decade or so the injuries have been popping up all over. Definitely the most common one being the tearing of the ucl tendon in the arm. This injury takes time to tear and it usually starts to hurt before the ligament actually snaps. “Most commonly, there is a gradual onset of elbow pain due to repetitive stresses on the ligament”(Hopkins Medicine). But there are cases where thee injury can be sudden and happen on one pitch. There have been more and more of these injuries but the biggest shock is the amount of young kids dealing with pain in their elbows. This is an effect of year round baseball, because the kids and teens are not getting their proper rest in between pitch outings. Also their coaches could be pushing them to pitch more innings and throw more pitches. But not only are young people getting these injuries older pros are also. There has been a substantial increase in

In Drew Marcos presentation, were first introduced to one athlete, in particular, Tommy John, an American professional baseball (left-handed) pitcher, who permanently damaged his ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching arm, leading to a revolutionary surgical operation. known as Tommy John surgery. It replaced the ligament in the elbow of his pitching arm with a tendon from his right forearm. The surgery was performed by Dr. Frank Jobe in 1974. After the surgery, the odds were against John, since there was a 1 in 100 success rate for that operation. But, he took a season off to recover and worked with a kinesiologist, who taught him a completely different way to pitching, eliminating the chance of him hurting his knee and arm. Before his surgery he won 124 games after his surgery 164 games won, John continued to play for 14 more years, retiring in 1989. Marcos, went on to discuss scapular strength and positional impairments such as scapular dyskinesia, insufficient posterior tilt, excessive abduction and prominent inferior medial border, which are all factors that play a part in the inverted “W” pitching position; that Marcos believes, is one of the driving forces behind the some pitcher’s injuries and the Tommy

Common injuries coaches must prepare for with a position baseball player include but is not limited to overuse injuries, those to the lumbar region, shoulder, elbow, hamstrings, and knees. Over half of reported injuries occur before the midpoint of the season (Rhea & Bunker, 2009), making it extremely important to emphasize prehab. An example of a training regime that could be done for a position baseball player in the in-season can be found in ………….

For baseball players, it is essential to stay healthy. One of the reasons a player tends to focus on healing his body is that if a player sits out injured for too long, he may lose his starting position. Though this is always in the forefront of a player’s mind, the first thing he should think about is healing his body so that he can continue his career. The most common injury to baseball players is “tennis elbow”. Other injuries baseball players deal with are dislocated joints and broken bones. Though baseball may seem like a less injury-prone sport than soccer or football, it can have just as many injuries with life-changing implications as the hard-hitting sports.

Along with the throwing arm, one of the largest areas where injuries occur happens to be one of the largest parts of the body, the trunk. Trunk injuries have one of the highest percentages of any injuries in major league baseball. With the help of measurements that can be taken between the pelvis and upper trunk, Exercise Scientists are able to calculate measurements including the maximum trunk rotation and angular acceleration of the trunk. Front foot contact for pitching, and after ball contact for batters is the most demanding instance for the trunk and spine, thus placing more stress on those areas during that time. Although it is impossible to calculate the amount of stress the abdominal muscles repetitively go through during pitching

We practiced proper biomechanics to help me pitch better. Not only throwing properly is important but icing our arms after is important for relieving the pain after a game. The purpose of the bio mechanical pitching evaluation is to reduce the risk of injury or re-injury by addressing the efficiency of a pitcher's mechanics. The pitching computer program is then used to calculate the kinematics (body angles, joint velocities, and timing mechanisms) and kinetics (joint forces and torques). ( www.asmi.org/bioeval.php?page=bio_eval ).

Elbow and biceps injuries can be both serious and painful. Along with pain around the injured area, difficulty bending the arm and deformities around the injured area may be indicators of a serious biceps injury. Only a qualified doctor, with the help of x-rays and MRIs, can determine the extent of the injury.

For the human joint anatomy project, our group decided to research and construct the elbow joint. The following is a report and summary of the project including roles taken, challenges faced, solutions derived, and ultimately, contribution and experiences of both partners.

Of the pediatric patients with forearm fracture included in this study, there were 32 male and 13 female patients with a mean age of 9 years (range: 5-15). The right forearm was fractured in 27 patients, and 23 patients suffered fracture of the left forearm. Only those fractures that involved the middle third of the radius and ulna were included in the study. Both bones were fractured in 32 (71.11%) patients. The radius only was fractured in ten (22.22%) patients, and the ulna only was fractured in three (6.66%). There were seven (15.55%) open fractures (Gustilo and Anderson Type I). All patients had isolated forearm fractures without associated injuries. The mechanism of injury was

I am a 16 year old from Benedictine High School in Cleveland, Ohio. I encountered a problem recently, and thought I could share my experience with the rest of the world. Like most of you guys, I am a huge baseball fan and player. I am a pitcher on my school team as well as my summer team. Along with being a quarterback in the fall this isn't always the easiest on my arm. Up until this past year I had managed it all with ease, and had not encountered a single issue. That all changed very fast this most reason season as a result of my impatience and stubbornness. If you've ever seen a major league pitcher warmup they're out there for hours long tossing, stretching, and getting ready to throw that night. I would toss the ball a couple

It provides strength and resistance to both torsional and bending forces. The proximal humerus articulates with the glenoid cavity of the scapula to form the shoulder joint. The muscles and tendons of the rotator cuff, the acromion, and ligamentous attachments between the coracoid process of the scapula and the acromion serve to both stabilize the gleno-humeral joint and provide a wide range of motion of the shoulder joint. The distal humerus articulates with the radius and ulna at the elbow. The greater tuberosity is located on the superior aspect of the humerus just lateral to the humeral head and it provides attachment for three of the rotator cuff muscles supraspinatus, infraspinatus and teres minor. The lesser tuberosity of the humerus is located on the anterior surface of the humerus and provides attachment for the subscapularis muscle. To classify the fractures, the lesser tuberosity marks the boundary between the proximal humerus and the mid-shaft. Humeral shaft is enveloped in the muscles and soft tissue which provide favorable non-operative healing mechanism in uncomplicated fractures. Muscles originating on the humeral shaft include the brachialis, brachioradialis, and the medial and lateral heads of the triceps brachii. The deltoid, pectoralis major, teres major, latissimus dorsi, and coracobrachialis all insert on the humeral shaft. Different location of the fracture along the humeral shaft will have specific deforming forces acting on the fracture fragments. Fractures near the midpoint of the shaft can have proximal fragment pulled laterally by the deltoid, while the distal fragment pulled medially by the triceps and biceps. Fractures near mid-shaft of the humerus are more likely to shorten than proximal or distal fractures due to the strong pull of the biceps and triceps muscles. The blood supply to the humeral shaft

Majority of proximal humeral fractures are either undisplaced or minimally displaced and can be treated with sling immobilization and physical therapy, but approximately

In the discussion at hand few where asked to to select an upper body injury in any sport and elaborate on the subject matter. The first thing that we need to do is define the appendicular skeleton. “The axial skeleton includes all the bones (that form bony structures) along the body’s long axis. The bones of the appendicular skeleton make up the rest of the skeleton and are so called because they are appendages of the axial skeleton. The appendicular skeleton includes the bones of the shoulder girdle, the upper limbs, the pelvic girdle, and the lower limbs.” (Publishing). The injury that I was enlightening to highlight within the appendicular skeleton is tennis elbow or in medical terms (lateral epicondylitis. The sport that this is most prevalent in is weight lifting.