| Nutrition is often overlooked in western culture. | | | | tissue as strong as possible. It is obvious that weak |
| Athletes tend to have better nutritional intake so they | | | | connective tissue will break down easier and faster |
| can operate at higher levels, but if you watch the | | | | than tissue that has all the materials and building blocks |
| news, especially if you keep an eye on professional | | | | it needs. |
| baseball pitchers, you will see that Tendonitis injury is | | | | It also makes sense that if a pitcher doesn't have all |
| rampant. | | | | the building blocks his tendons and connective tissue |
| Here is the single most valuable nutritional rule that | | | | need, then he won't heal as fast from actual tendon |
| must be followed to avoid Tendonitis, that a baseball | | | | damage. You can't build a brick wall without bricks. |
| pitcher can take with him from Little League all the | | | | What Is The #1 Nutritional Rule A Pitcher Should Follow |
| way to the Big Leagues. There are many reasons that | | | | To Throw Hard And Avoid Injury? |
| lead up to a baseball pitcher getting an elbow, shoulder, | | | | There is a lot of advice out there. There is a lot of high |
| or wrist Tendonitis , but for the moment let's focus on | | | | tech info and fancy gadgets out there. But every |
| nutrition. | | | | pitching coach will tell you that it all comes down to |
| How Does Nutrition Play A Role In Tendonitis? | | | | basics. Same thing with nutrition. |
| Tendon is a form of connective tissue. Tendon is | | | | Historically a daily part our western diet was a food |
| made up of the same collagen that makes up | | | | source that gave us all the basics our bodies need to |
| ligaments, cartilage, and the thinner web of connective | | | | stay structurally strong. As our food practices have |
| tissue that wraps -everything- and connects | | | | changed over the decades, this dietary staple has |
| -everything- in the body. | | | | disappeared. And thus the prevalence of Tendonitis |
| Connective tissue is made up of protein fiber, calcium | | | | has risen to a level that we now consider common |
| but also magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and | | | | and normal. |
| trace minerals, chondroitin sulphates and glucosamine. | | | | The #1 rule a pitcher should follow sounds something |
| Our modern western diet, unfortunately, has evolved | | | | like this: Eat food that will make your bones, connective |
| into a state of providing very little nutrition. And if a | | | | tissue, tendons, ligaments, cartilage, and joints strong. |
| baseball pitcher is not taking in enough of the right | | | | That wasn't very fancy or snazzy, and it sounds like |
| nutrients, his connective tissue will become weaker and | | | | common sense, but the intent of this rule is routinely |
| less structurally sound that it could be and should be. | | | | ignored because we assume that the food we get |
| Does Pitching Cause Tendonitis? | | | | from the store has all the vital nutrients that we need, |
| The culture of baseball believes that pitching causes | | | | in the quantity that we need them. Which unfortunately |
| Tendonitis. If only it were that cut and dried. If the | | | | just is not true. |
| powers that be in baseball management and/or | | | | You won't find this food at Safeway, or mainstream |
| medical staff understood the Tendonitis dynamic, there | | | | grocery stores. This food should be natural and |
| wouldn't be such a pandemic of pitchers on the DL | | | | organic. |
| and heading off to surgery. | | | | Now you're probably wondering what food I'm talking |
| Pitching a baseball does not cause tendonitis. Even if it | | | | about. You're probably expecting me to tell you about |
| did, there are ways to keep it at bay and keep the | | | | a nutritional product, a supplement, a food system, or |
| tissue healthy. | | | | something that you'll need to buy. |
| One aspect of this is to keep a pitcher's connective | | | | |