by Brent Pourciau | Jan 31, 2019 | Pitching Articles
Preventing Tommy John surgery is at high demand in the game of baseball due to the commonality of the surgery. This article will look at what it takes to prevent Tommy John surgery. Evidence suggests that the elbow is a link in the kinetic chain which is best used to...
by Brent Pourciau | Jan 24, 2019 | Pitching Articles
Do you perform overhead lifting? In the study by Blache et al., 2015 they found that overhead lifting with a heavy box was most effective for strengthening the rotator cuff, deltoid and upper trapezius muscles. For throwing athletes like pitchers shoulder and elbow...
by Brent Pourciau | Jan 16, 2019 | Pitching Articles
In the study by Suzuki et al, 2019 it looks at how does thoracic extension reduce arm injury and flexion posture on scapulothoracic motion during eccentric shoulder external rotation and its range of motion. It was hypothesized that thoracic extension will increase...