Category: Shoulder/Rotator Cuff
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Long Toss Part 1 – Does it Strengthen Your Arm ??
Since it has been a long time between writing articles I figured that I owed everyone who reads this site a great series of articles that tackles a hot topic in the baseball world; LONG TOSS Does long toss strengthen your arm? Will it increase your risk of injury? Does throwing further mean you can throw…
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Pitching 8 months a Year Might not be a Great Idea – Studies you should know about
The study in question today comes from the Dr. Andrews lab in the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Alabama. Risk Factors for Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in Adolescent Baseball Pitchers By: Samuel J. Olsen II, MD, Glenn S. Fleisig,* PhD, Shouchen Dun, MS, Jeremy Loftice, and James R. Andrews, MD What did they want…
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The Best Shoulder Exercises – video’s
This final part of the Shoulder Series will look at videos which demonstrate the best exercises and drills that you can do in order to improve performance and decrease the chances of injury. I have broken shoulder care down into four main categories Rotator Cuff Strength Reflexive Rotator Cuff Conditioning Scapular Stability Thoracic Spine Mobility…
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Arm Pre-Hab – more than just Rotator Cuff exercises
Putting it all together – the Hollistic Approach I really need to get going with some research that is in my area of thesis but I know how important arm care is which is why I wanted to throw this series together, pardon the pun. I will be doing more in the future however I…
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Subscapularis
Subscapularis This is the last of the rotator cuff muscles and it’s the largest and strongest. Where is it? This one is tough to get your hand on because of the fact that it is underneath the scapula (hence the name) and you can’t really get at it from the front because of the rib…
