RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE MAXIMUM SHOULDER EXTERNAL ROTATION ANGLE DURING THROWING AND PHYSICAL VARIABLES

  • Koji Miyashita
  • Yukio Urabe
  • Hirokazu Kobayashi
  • Kiyoshi Yokoe
  • Morio Kawamura
  • Kunio Ida
Keywords: throwing, elbow injury, shoulder

Abstract

To our knowledge, excessive shoulder external rotation may increase elbow valgus stress during throwing (2005). Inhibition of the greater shoulder external rotation angle could prevent elbow injury during throwing. Thus the purpose of this study was to determine physical factors that would increase the maximum shoulder external rotation (MER) angle.
Published
2007-10-28
Issue
24 International Symposium on Biomechanics in Sports (2006)
Section
Muscle-Skeleton-Mechanics
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