Researchers analyzed instances of abdominal muscle strains in professional baseball players by reviewing the Major League Baseball disabled list from 1991-2010. There were 393 cases of abdominal muscle strains during that period, which made up 5 percent of all baseball injuries.
The report also found:
• 92 percent were oblique or intercostals muscle strains
• 44 percent were sustained by pitchers
• 12.1 percent re-injury rate
• Players had a injury rate 22 percent higher in the 2000s than in the 1990s
• Pitchers averaged 35.4 days on the DL
• Position players averaged 26.7 days on the DL
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