Baseball Injuries

Baseball does not require much toughness to play. Even though it is not a tough contact sport, there are still some serious injuries that can occur throughout the season. Many of these injuries occur on the shoulder, elbow, and the knees.

 Many shoulder injuries happen to pitchers. Many pitchers have had a torn rotator cuff in one of their shoulders. A torn rotator cuff is when there is a tear of tendons, ligaments, and some inflammation of the tendons. There are many different ways to injure your rotator cuff. Such as, an Acute Tear and a Chronic Tear. 

The elbow is an ideal place to watch for an injury while playing baseball. Medial Ligament Sprain is a common injury. This can be caused by poor throwing technique, for example Little League players who try to learn to throw breaking balls at a young age. Other injuries that involve the elbow that baseball players have seen are Medial Epicondylitis, Radial Nerve Entrapment. 

Knee injuries in baseball are very common due to the fact that the players on the field do a lot of running to steal second base or catch a fly ball. The Anterior Cruciate Ligament injury is a big one. A torn ACL usually occurs through a twisting force being applied to the knee whilst the foot is firmly planted on the ground or upon landing. It can also tear due to a blow to the outside of the knee. There are other injuries that will occur during a baseball game but these are just a few.

This following website is a good site to read up on these injuries http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/cybertherapist/injurylist.htm.