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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Youth Baseball"”.
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Leadership in Youth Baseball: Awareness of Health & Safety Issues
… to children and their overall health and safety. Youth sports organizations, directors, coaches, and parents are no different. Participation in sports such as baseball provides great physical opportunities for the youth population in this country. Unfortunately, children can and do get hurt while …
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Relationships between throwing velocity and selected kinematics in youth baseball players
<p>Research investigating baseball position players has been limited primarily to pitchers. The current study examined several kinematic variables and their relationship with ball velocity in middle and high school-aged baseball players using two-dimensional (2D) motion analysis. The purpose of …
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Failure Analysis of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament for Youth Baseball Pitchers
… experiments of eighteen 10- to 11- year-old baseball pitchers throwing 10 fastballs were analyzed. Maximum internal elbow varus torques were calculated using inverse dynamics methods during a typical pitch cycle. Calculations used axial loading stress equations and maximum internal elbow …
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Take Me Out To The Ball Game: Successful Youth Sports Complexes in Small Communities
… investigation into the makings of a successful youth baseball facility. Youth sports is a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States, and much of the competition follows a tournament, or "travel league" format. This is especially true in youth baseball. Despite this growing trend towards …
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Youth Pitching Kinematics: Associations with Body Overweight Parameters
… kinematic parameters and overweight measures for youth baseball pitchers. The injury-related kinematic parameters considered were measurements 1) at foot contact: stride length, front foot position, shoulder external rotation, shoulder abduction, and elbow flexion; 2) between FC and ball release: …
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Evaluating the Head Injury Risk Associated with Baseball and Softball
More than 19 million children participate in youth baseball and softball annually. Although baseball and softball are not commonly depicted as contact sports in the, according to the U.S. CPSC baseball and softball were responsible for 11.6% of all head injuries treated in emergency rooms in 2009; …