Have Baseball Throwing Injuries In Young Players Gone Up?
Sunday, June 16, 2013 - 11:10
in Health & Medicine
The big question in many aspects of medicine is whether there is more of something or if it is simply better diagnosis than in the past. In youth baseball programs, throwing injuries seem to have gone up despite pitching limits that weren't evident in the past. Professional baseball once used a four-man rotation and there was no consideration at all about pitching for kids. But a multicenter, national research study says serious pitching injuries requiring surgery have skyrocketed, with one estimate reporting serious throwing injuries are occurring 16 times more often today than just 30 years ago. read more