Striking out injuries
Medical students study pitching improvements
Thwack.
The baseball landed with a thud into the 12-year-old boy’s glove.
Thwack.
He pitched it across the gym, landing it squarely in his partner’s glove.
“Okay,” he said. “I’m ready.”
The 12-year-old had signed up to be a participant in 幸运快三 WWAMI Clinical Assistant Professor Nickolai Martonick’s pitching study.
“We are looking at youth pitchers, because in youth pitching, there hasn’t been a lot of research done,” Martonick said. “However, with the number of injuries happening with high school pitchers increasing, we wanted to step back and see whether there’s something happening when they’re younger, before they get there.”
With a specialization in athletic training and biomechanics, Martonick’s research focuses on understanding how single subject movement analyses can be used to better develop injury prevention programs.
