Baseball arm trouble!!! Please! Please! Please! help!?
please help me, I have a chance to get a scholarship for pitching in college. I played summer baseball and had to stop for about a month and get sinus surgery. I came back and immediately started pitching again and my arm felt weird the first time. I came back out to throw and had a tremendous amount of pain in my shoulder near the pec. I began going to therapy and got an MRI which said it was a tendon strain. i rehabbed for about 3 months until starting to throw again. they did something called tendon releases on my arm which made it feel great. when baseball practice rolled around, I started throwing off the mound, and it just does not feel the same. I used to be able to hit 88 on the gun and now I’m throwing about 75-80 mph. It feels as if somebody took my tendons from my shoulder and pinned back to my shoulder blade. I feel like I have no mobility. They say its tightness and irritation in my capsule. I stretch at least 30 minutes before i throw off the mound. I’m desperate, please somebody tell me how I could fix this. We start playing in about 2 weeks. I really need to throw with my full potential to have a chance for a college scholarship.
5 Responses
Fozzy
09 Mar 2010
[mjt]
09 Mar 2010
Buy a rubberband (if you don’t already have one) and tie it around a doorknob in your house or on a fence outside, and strech with it everyday doing about 2 sets of 20 reps. This will strengthen your whole shoulder and it will get the blood flowing and get the lactic acid out of your arm.
jim
09 Mar 2010
I don’t know much about sports injuries, but here’s a thought.
Try some yoga. Full body stretching. Pitching really involves the whole body. And everything in the body works together, so that if your backs out of allignment it could force your shoulder out of alignment.
[Räwr]
09 Mar 2010
^ what he said!
go to the local MC sports store and get a stretch rope. Tie it to your foot first, then pull upwards, secondly tie it to the doornob and put out and thirdly put it on a doornob and pull down.
do this every day, about 20 reps
they cost $ 20-35
So this is a serious enough issue that you feel it might cost you a college scholarship?
But you will ask a bunch of total strangers for medical advice?
There isn’t a single person on here that can tell you exactly what’s wrong with your arm. it doesn’t matter if they used to be a pitcher, or if they had the same symptoms, or even if they are the greatest orthopedic surgeon in the world, they can’t tell you a thing without actually SEEING you.
See a doctor.
That’s what they are there for.