運動科學研究所 Institute of Sports Sciences

　

Developing excellent athletes requires care of their health and performance

Little league elbow is a common injury in youth baseball players. Throwing guidelines for youth baseball players mainly focus on overuse injury prevention. We found that there are differences in throwing kinematics between youth baseball players with and without a history of medial elbow pain. Although we are not able to conclude with certainty that these findings are the causes or results of elbow injury in youth baseball players, the factors can be considered while adjusting throwing posture for these players. Learning proper throwing kinematics as early as possible may assist in injury prevention for youth players.

Dr Yung-Shen Tsai