Overuse In Baseball

Can throwing a baseball affect your arm and how can you prevent it? Baseball players injure their arms because of overuse, incorrect form, and not enough recovery time to prevent their arms from getting injured. They need to take it serious and know what their doing while knowing that they can hurt or damage their arm any time and that the injury can be permanent.

Baseball can injure your arm in many different ways and most of them can be prevented. One way throwing a baseball could injure your arm is by over using it. This is caused by not taking breaks and constantly throwing whether or not you are hurting or sore. Overuse may occur when you are just throwing too hard or too early. “Sports-participation promotes physical and emotional wellness in children but too much physical activity or to soon can lead to injury. Repetitive stress injury, also known as overuse injury, is becoming a significant concern for orthopaedic doctors—especially at a time where the number of dual-sport athletes continues to grow”(Mike Hoenig, MD).

Having incorrect form can hurt and ruin your career. Common injuries would be torn tissues like biceps, rotator cups, or your ucl. These things are caused by incorrect form because of stress on the tendons of your arm. Also throwing a baseball is a non-natural movement which isn't good for your arm in the first place. Treatment for incorrect use is physical therapy and rehabilitation. To prevent injuring yourself from incorrect form while throwing a baseball you can go to many professional camps and lessons to learn the correct way to throw so that you can prevent from damaging your arm to early. Most camps will take video of you and evaluate the way you throw to help slow down and show you how your throwing and what you need to fix to be safe. They will correct everything that is wrong and their studies all come from higher up professionals that know what their