injury prevention

2 Risk Factors For Tommy John Surgery: A Concerning Trend

20 Major League Baseball pitchers have had Tommy John surgery (i.e. Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) Reconstruction) since the end of the 2013 season (this was originally posted April 2014), and all are under age 30.  As a healthcare professional, I find that very disturbing.  What may be worse , there are likely tons more pitchers […]

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Got Glutes? (Part 2 – strengthening exercises)

Hopefully prior to reading this, you’ll have performed the three quick “glute assessment” tests from Got Glutes (Part 1).   If you’ve got test-passing buns of steel, awesome!  (But still do these exercises – work them into your regular program for maintenance). However, if you had trouble “passing” any of the three glute tests, now we

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