How many innings can we throw: does workload influence injury risk in Major League Baseball? An analysis of professional starting pitchers between 2010 and 2015 - Saltzman BM, Mayo BC, Higgins JD, Gowd AK, Cabarcas BC, Leroux TS, Basques BA, Nicholson GP, Bush-Joseph CA, Romeo AA, Verma NN.

BACKGROUND: There has been increasing interest regarding the association between pitch counts, as well as total workload per season, and the risk of injury among Major League Baseball (MLB) starting pitchers. METHODS: We used publicly available dat...

Source: SafetyLit - June 9, 2018 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news