Jeff LangmaidFounder, The Evidence Based Chiropractor

How to Prevent Baseball Injuries with Specific Training

19 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Jeff Langmaid argues that preventing baseball (especially pitching-related) injuries requires identifying and correcting strength imbalances through targeted, low-time specific training. He emphasizes proactive interventions during the off-season or preseason to reduce injury risk and extend careers — a recommendation that applies beyond professional players to high school, college, and minor-league athletes who suffer recurrent injuries.

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This is not only about finding out who's likely to be injured, but it's really about then being able to take proactive steps. If there's imbalances between strength that there is a correlation to injury on, well, that's a really great thing to know, because during the off season, during the preseason, or before somebody even makes it to the professional leagues, being able to create a balance that decreases that coefficient. Gosh, that sounds technical. But decreasing that likelihood through specific training would be a really good idea, especially if you think about that training requires such little time and investment, comparatively to the potential outcome of an elongated career, or a career to begin with, because this was just professional players. Think about all of these kids that are struggling in high school, in college, in the minors, with recurrent injuries of all types in all sports, but definitely relating to pitching in baseball.