Baseball common injuries

• April 19, 2024

The Major League Baseball is one of the topics par excellence for cinematography of the United States, which together with others sports typically American, like Football, make up a long list of epic sports movies . This year was not the exception, so Moneyball , from director Bennett Miller, was nominated for the Oscars.

Moneyball is a movie based on the work of Michael Lewis, who portrays the life of Billy Beane, role played by Brad Pitt.

The plot focuses on Beane, a former baseball player who, due to injury, retires and eventually becomes the athletic leader of the Oakland Athletics. Despite having a low budget, the team manages to stay in the top positions of their division and reach the postseason. The above, thanks to the use of a novel system of statistical selection of players.

In this way, the story is approached from a managerial point of view, without neglecting the sporting aspect since, as part of any organization, the profitability of the players becomes a core point.

In this sense, the effectiveness of the players and of a team can be reduced by different injuries caused by the overload of physical and mental work.

In this regard, a recent study big leagues of baseball in the United States, it showed that 1 in 4 players suffers a musculoskeletal injury important enough to demand yourrehabilitation .

This fact implies the loss of at least 10 matches of the season , which affects not only the sports performance of the player and the team, but also the economic performance.

At baseball , due to the demands of training and the stress of the competition , many injuries . In addition, it is a sport which has the rate of fatality highest, annually, for children between 5 and 14 years old.

In that way, in the baseball player we find muscle injuries , tendinous , fractures , bruises Y blisters in the hands, thorax, shoulders, elbows and knees; but of all of them, the most relevant are those of shoulder and the elbow in the pitchers .

"Throw a ball of baseball is one of the fastest and most violent maneuvers to which you can submit joint of the body.The violent and rapid movement puts at risk several structures of the shoulder "cautioned Dr. Shane Seroyer, a sports medicine specialist at the University of Michigan.

Within the four basic foundations of baseball , throw is the technical gesture that exposes more to suffer a injury . Throw a ball of baseball It is an unnatural movement that compromises bones , muscles , tendons Y ligaments , to twisting and stretching at high speeds and sharp angles.

The repetitive releases above the head they produce important overloads mechanical in the joints of the shoulder Y elbow , which can cause anatomical changes in the pitcher young boys.

The asymptomatic pathology of shoulder Y elbow it is quite frequent and can become disabling , if they occur repeated traumatisms . The joint injury occurs when the body is not able to adequately coordinate the mobility segments, just at the moment of releasing the ball in the releases , and can cause structural damage.

Another type of  frequent illness in pitchers of baseball is the "shock syndrome ", what happens by the Pressure about him rotator cuff , which produces part of the shoulder , as you raise your arm to perform the launching . Many pitchers of big leagues they are not the same after this injury .

Therefore, one of the responsibilities of the coach , and with much more reason pitching coach , is to know the functioning of the human body and in this specific case, the throwing arm .

The prevention and rehabilitation of injuries requires focusing on the optimization of launch mechanisms , the central force, the scapular control and the articular mobility arch.

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