🔥 How To Reduce Elbow Injuries

The causation of all elbow injuries in baseball:

Is throwing a baseball

No one else on planet earth is tearing their UCLs other than baseball players

The reason is that the extreme external rotation of the shoulder necessary to throw a baseball at high velocities, induces valgus stress on the elbow

Unfortunately, this is simply part of the sport

The problem in the modern baseball world though is we keep asking even more and more out of the elbow with endless year round tournaments and hyper aggressive weighted ball programs

Which only serves to bring guys closer and closer to injury

The question becomes, what can be done to actually reduce injury risk?

Several ways:

1️⃣ Throwing programs that are individualized, periodized, and account for offseasons; not copy paste one size fits all sheets

2️⃣ Developing strength through the hips and upper back allowing for correct deceleration when throwing at high velocities, taking stress off the rotator cuff and subsequently the elbow

3️⃣ A smart arm care program, the “icing on the cake”

With smarter throwing programs that aren’t just 6 week crash courses for chasing social media views; and development of the REST of the body outside the shoulder, the baseball injury epidemic can finally start to slow down

-Fenske