Jun 28, 2018 – Top Baseball Injuries

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🏆TOP MLB INJURIES 
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It’s the middle of baseball season⚾️, and inevitably if you have a favorite team one of your players will be on the disabled list this year
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Baseball players have the biggest grind of any major sport. 162 games over the summer! The majority of these are overuse injuries (to pitchers) so off-season conditioning is really important.
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Despite good conditioning, injuries happen.
Some interesting trends in the MLB are that shoulder injuries are trending down ⬇️⬇️. They’re down about 20% over the last 20 years.

But where is this wear and tear now happening? Likely the elbow (in the form of ulnar collateral ligament sprains). Over the past 20 years these are UP⬆️⬆️ 20% 🤔.
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This is because as health professionals we are getting great and treating and strengthening the shoulder…and players are averaging faster pitches 🔥🔥year by year. 
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How do we prevent these elbow injuries from occurring? It’s one of the great mysteries of sports medicine right now. Do you rest your all-star pitcher or risk losing the championship? There is no right answer. But regardless the cost of paying injured and replacement MLB players is more than $700 Million!

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