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Little League Shoulder in Youth Baseball Players

Unnati Topiwala2024-09-27T17:33:28-04:00May 26th, 2021|Categories: Youth Sports Articles|Tags: Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, Baseball pitching, Humerus, Little League elbow, Medical classification, Medical Subject Headings, Musculoskeletal system, Overuse injuries, Pectoralis major, Pitcher, Rotator cuff, Rotator cuff tear, Shoulder, Shoulder problem, Sports injury, Ulnar collateral ligament injury of the elbow, Ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction|

Baseball remains a popular sport among adolescent athletes. However, single-sport specialization and year-round competition have led to an increase in upper extremity injury in youth baseball players. While the elbow is the most frequent complaint of adolescent baseball players, the shoulder is often implicated.1 “Little league shoulder” is a common shoulder injury among youth baseball players. What is little league shoulder? Little league shoulder, or proximal humeral epiphysiolysis, is an overuse injury that occurs at the growth plate in [...]

Frozen Shoulder

Unnati Topiwala2024-09-27T16:28:24-04:00March 24th, 2021|Categories: General Information, Performance Enhancement Articles, Physical Therapy Articles, Sports Medicine Articles, Youth Sports Articles|Tags: active, Adhesion, Adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder, American College of Sports Medicine, Arthritis, athlete, Capsulitis, Elbow, Frozen Shoulder, health, immobility, inflammation, injury, Injury Prevention, Manipulation under anesthesia, Manual therapy, Medical specialties, Medical Subject Headings, Medicine, Musculoskeletal system, Osteochondritis dissecans, Overuse injuries, Physical Therapy, Rotator cuff, Rotator cuff tear, Shoulder, Shoulder joint, shoulder pain, Shoulder problem, Soft tissue disorders, Sports medicine, Thomas Joyce, Trauma, warm-up|

What is a frozen shoulder? Frozen shoulder, or “adhesive capsulitis,” is a condition that involves a tightening of the capsule and ligaments around the shoulder. Inflammation within the shoulder joint and an increase in nerve growth around the shoulder complex results in pain, stiffness, and limited shoulder range of motion.1 It is estimated that 2-5.3% of the general population experiences frozen shoulder.1 Studies have shown that this pathology is more prevalent among females and individuals between 40 and 70 years [...]

Scar Mobilization: What you need to know

Melissa Baudo2024-09-29T16:36:30-04:00January 26th, 2020|Categories: Pain Management Articles, Women's Health Articles|Tags: Adhesion, Anatomy, Breast reduction, Breast surgery, Clinical medicine, Connective tissue, Fascia, Healing, injuries, Keloid, Laura Glazebrook, Manual therapy, Medical specialties, Medical terminology, Medicine, Myofascial trigger point, Scar, scar mobilization, Scarring, Shoulder, Shoulder problem, Soft tissue, Soft tissue disorders, Surgery|

The body is really a phenomenal system that has the unique ability to completely rebuild our tissues when we get injured, biologically stitching our wounds back together. It’s quite amazing! The special cells that lay down the collagen to create a scar do a fantastic job of closing the body off from the unforgiving world. The problem is that the collagen fibers don’t get laid down in a very organized fashion (think of a string of Christmas lights that mysteriously [...]

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