Sports medicine physicians should advise pitchers to have more forward scapular posture of the dominant arm than the non-dominant arm in order to decrease shoulder tightness associated with pitching, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Researchers studied the bilateral forward scapular posture, the glenohumeral horizontal adduction and the rotational range of 40 professional baseball players, including pitchers and position players. They found a good negative relationship between the glenohumeral horizontal adduction range of motion and the forward scapular posture, which means the dominant shoulders should have significantly more forward scapular posture.
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Researchers studied the bilateral forward scapular posture, the glenohumeral horizontal adduction and the rotational range of 40 professional baseball players, including pitchers and position players. They found a good negative relationship between the glenohumeral horizontal adduction range of motion and the forward scapular posture, which means the dominant shoulders should have significantly more forward scapular posture.
Read the coverage on preventing baseball players' shoulder tightness.
Read other coverage on sports medicine research:
- Study: Young Patients May Not Need Surgery For a Torn ACL
- Study: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Bet for Arthroscopic Cartilage Grading
- Study: Some Olympic Sports Need Better Injury Prevention Strategies