The researchers, including Kevin Wilk, DPT, of the American Sports Medicine Institute in Birmingham, Ala., studied 296 Major League Baseball pitchers from 2005 to 2012.
The study found:
• Pitchers that have a total range of motion deficit of more than five degrees in their dominant shoulder are 2.3 times more likely to suffer an injury.
• Pitchers that have a total range of motion deficit of more than five in shoulder flexion of the dominant shoulder are 2.8 times more likely to suffer an injury.
• The 50 elbow injuries identified in this study resulted in an average of 51 days on the disabled list.
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