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Very interesting article on sports fitness:
NLCS: The Warm-Body Theory—San Francisco Giants Pitchers - WSJ.com
QUOTING WSJ:
Dr. Stephen Fealy a shoulder specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York who has studied the health of pitchers, said injured pitchers often have a common trait.
"They get lazy and their core gets weak," Fealy said. "Pitching is about your glutes, your abductors and your hips."
Also, in 2008 the club was among the first to delve into using three-dimensional video technology to monitor the mechanics of their pitchers' motions, so that everyone on the staff learned how to maintain what Sabean called a "healthy arm action." Their motions vary, but the legs elbows and shoulders need to align such that there isn't any more strain than necessary on any one part of the arm.
"There are certain body parts that don't want to go a certain way," said Glenn Fleisig, a researcher at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama. "Throwing one hundred innings with crappy mechanics is going to be way more harmful than 200 innings with good mechanics."
NLCS: The Warm-Body Theory—San Francisco Giants Pitchers - WSJ.com
QUOTING WSJ:
Dr. Stephen Fealy a shoulder specialist at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York who has studied the health of pitchers, said injured pitchers often have a common trait.
"They get lazy and their core gets weak," Fealy said. "Pitching is about your glutes, your abductors and your hips."
Also, in 2008 the club was among the first to delve into using three-dimensional video technology to monitor the mechanics of their pitchers' motions, so that everyone on the staff learned how to maintain what Sabean called a "healthy arm action." Their motions vary, but the legs elbows and shoulders need to align such that there isn't any more strain than necessary on any one part of the arm.
"There are certain body parts that don't want to go a certain way," said Glenn Fleisig, a researcher at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama. "Throwing one hundred innings with crappy mechanics is going to be way more harmful than 200 innings with good mechanics."