Sentences with phrase «elbow injuries among»

5 Since 2000, there has been a five-fold increase in the number of serious shoulder and elbow injuries among youth baseball and softball players.

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But injuries took their toll on Cain in recent years, sidelined by elbow surgery, a right forearm flexor strain, and a hamstring strain, among other things.

In its 2012 Policy Statement on Baseball and Softball8, the AAP acknowledges the recent studies challenging the theory that the curveball and slider are stressful to the young elbow, but, on the basis of other studies showing increased injury among those who throw curve balls and sliders at early ages, continues to recommend that introduction of the curve ball be delayed until after age 14, or when pubertal development has advanced to the stage when the athlete has started to shave, and that sliders not be thrown until age 16.

Surgeries related to overuse elbow injuries — Tommy John Surgery — are more common among youth athletes than previously believed, according to research presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., recently.

Overuse injuries have become commonplace among young athletes in the last decade (although «Little League elbow» has been a problem for decades).

In an effort to stem the alarming increase in elbow and shoulder injuries among young baseball pitchers, Little League Baseball adopted important rules in 2007 to limit the number of pitches a pitcher can throw in a game and how much rest he must take pitching appearances.

There has been a five-fold increase since 2000 in the number of serious elbow and shoulder injuries among youth baseball and softball players, according to the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine.