| Read through baseball sports news, blogs, fantasy | | | | Inflammation process. This enhances the Downward |
| baseball sites, etc, and if you aren't already aware of | | | | Spiral by making things hurt more, which makes |
| how dangerous pitching is to baseball players, you | | | | muscles get tighter....which makes things hurt more. |
| quickly will. | | | | If treated the usual way, injury comes and goes, |
| Why exactly is Tendonitis such a problem for Baseball | | | | players lose time and stats to time resting and |
| Pitchers? | | | | recovering from surgery. Look at all the players that |
| Managing a pitcher and how active he is major | | | | have had surgery. How many of them are back to |
| strategy in baseball, especially in Major League | | | | 100%, months or years later? How many of them |
| Baseball. | | | | aren't still dealing with tendonitis issues? |
| Every day I see news reports of various pitchers | | | | Tendonitis can end careers. It is a serious threat to a |
| getting benched, being placed on the injured list, and | | | | pitcher and his career. Whether it is Tennis Elbow, |
| sent off to surgery and weeks and months of | | | | Wrist Tendonitis, a problem in the hand, Shoulder Cuff |
| recovery. | | | | Tendonitis, or something similar, teams work hard to |
| It's too bad. All that could be avoided. | | | | keep their pitchers healthy and able to play. |
| Tendonitis is an occupational hazard for major league | | | | The problem really isn't pitching. |
| baseball pitchers, and young men that work hard to | | | | The problem is that the pitchers aren't doing the |
| join the ranks of a big league team. | | | | RIGHT self care to keep their bodies happy and |
| Most of this kind of injury shows up in the arm | | | | healthy, as opposed to their bodies getting slowly more |
| anywhere from shoulder to fingers. Watch a pitcher | | | | and more unhappy, until the pain is enough to stop |
| throw a few times, it's no surprise. Even then pitching | | | | them from pitching. |
| efficiently and effortlessly, there is A LOT of force, | | | | Rest, anti-inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen, |
| torque, internal movement of tendons, and muscle | | | | corticosteroid shots, and splints and braces really are |
| contraction happening over and over. | | | | not preventative measures. They just don't work. |
| Over time after hundreds or thousands of throws, | | | | Want proof? Watch sports news for a while. |
| after muscles firing powerfully and pulling forcefully on | | | | Tendonitis is a threat to baseball pitchers because it is |
| their tendons, the muscles get set tighter and tighter. | | | | a natural result of how they use their bodies, how their |
| This starts a long Downward Spiral of increasing | | | | bodies naturally respond to that kind of ongoing stress, |
| tightness, then increasing pain and tightness. | | | | and because pitchers don't do the right kind of self |
| Whether a tendon gets irritated or actually has some | | | | care that successfully reverses the first two factors. |
| micro tear to the tissue, the body kicks in an | | | | |