How to Reduce the Risk of Throwing Injuries in Sports Players: Effective Preventive Interventions
- Julian Simpson
- Jul 5, 2024
- 1 min read
How to Reduce the Risk of Throwing Injuries in Sports Players: Effective Preventive Interventions
Common sports that have throwing activities include :
Baseball
Softball
Tennis
Football
Track fields like javelin, hammer throw and shot put.
With shoulder and elbow pain some of the most common complaints associated with throwing activities
Research in 2024 looked into how to increase
posterior shoulder flexibility
Strengthening the external rotator muscles
To prevent shoulder injuries from occurring in athletes
They found the following can benefit elite athletes in preventing shoulder problems from throwing:
sleeper stretching
shoulder external rotation strengthening exercises
prevention programs like our rotator cuff program!
Limitations in progress are the athletes' age, level of fitness and what positions they play on the team.
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Reference
J Shoulder Elbow Surg
. 2024 Feb 2:S1058-2746(24)00074-0.
doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2023.12.008. Online ahead of print.
Preventive interventions for throwing injuries in baseball players: A scoping review
Karasuyama Masaki 1, Takashi Tsuruta 2, Kawakami Junichi 3, Takuya Oike 4, Kazuki Uchida 2, Tomohiko Minamikawa 5
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