Pitching injuries in baseball has been a big topic in the sports world in the past several years. Before the start of the 2017 high school baseball season, the Illinois High School Association (IHSA) instituted a rule limiting the amount of pitchers a student athlete can throw, stating that a pitcher who throws over 45 pitches in a game must rest for 2 days, over 60 there must be a 4 day rest, over 60 a three day rest period and a pitcher who crosses the 75 pitch mark must take 5 days of rest before pitching in game again. At the professional level, Major League Baseball pitchers have been exposed to a rising rate in the number of shoulder and elbow injuries. According to ESPN, 34.4% of pitchers in 2022, and 35.3% of pitchers in 2023 had to undergo Tommy John surgery to repair elbow injuries, while the National Institutes of Health says that around 57% of pitchers at all levels of baseball deal with some sort of minor or severe shoulder injury during a season. Doug Price is the clinic manager at Advanced Rehab and Sports Medicine in Monmouth. Price says the shoulder is a very complex joint, that can be easily injured through overuse or bad posture.
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