Tag: Arm Care

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Healthy & Powerful Shoulder Series

    If you have played baseball I can guarantee that you have done some form of shoulder exercises that are aimed at keeping your throwing arm healthy.  These drills are now a staple of any good throwing program and have been integrated into the game of baseball.  The problem that I see is that these exercises are…