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Baseball & Softball Player Injury Prevention and Performance Enhancement

Located in Manhattan's Union Square, NYC

Our program educates athletes on foundational athletic movement and improves their movement precision, bridging the gap between rehabilitation, physical therapy, fitness, and performance training.

In order to reduce injury risk and optimize performance, the modern day athlete needs to develop an understanding of the movement science behind proper throwing, hitting, and fielding mechanics. They must learn how to sequence balance, timing, and transfer of force and power through the entire kinetic chain.

Work alongside physical therapists, who have advanced training in strength and conditioning, functional training movement, and kinesiology. With their experience, our physical therapists help athletes reach, and ultimately maximize, an athlete's athletic potential; ensuring they receive the unique attention that they need to develop perform.

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What to Expect from the Baseball & Softball Program

Incorporating cutting edge physical therapy techniques, movement education, and mechanics retraining, an individualized program is devised to correct underlying impairments. Ultimately, to return the athlete back to the field-and keep them on the field.

Enhance Skill and Performance
Prevent Injury and Re-Injury
Recover from Existing Injury or Surgery
Maximize Throwing Velocity and Bat Speed
Meet Your Specific Goal

For throwing injury prevention, part of the program will specifically target four critical components:

Arm Care
Baseball & Softball Specific Strength and Conditioning
Warm Up and Interval Throwing Management
Workload Management

Common Baseball and Softball Injuries

Tendonitis

Rotator Cuff Injuries & Anterior Shoulder Sprains and Strains

The bones of the shoulder are held in place by the rotator cuff, a group of muscles that cover the head of the humerus and enable arm lifting and rotation. The intense reptitive motion of baseball and softball pitching can create stress, strain, and consequential wear-and-tear on the rotator cuff. If the responsible stressful activity is not reduced or halted, a rotator cuff tear may occur, which will be accompanied by symptoms of weakness, pain, and reduced arm mobility. Sprains describe stretching or tearing injuries of the body’s ligaments, while strains refer to injuries of the tendons or muscles – both are extremely common in throwing athletes. Pain will typically cause symptoms of pain in the top, side or front of the shoulder or arm. Repetitive high-impact shoulder usage and shoulder strains may result in chronic shoulder instability.

Medial Epicondylitis

Ulnar Neuritis of the Elbow

UCL Injury (Baseball Specific)

The two most feared words for any pitcher – Tommy John [Surgery]. The dreaded surgery with a 12-18 month avg time table to return to sport used to reconstruct a torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) ; the main stabilizing ligament found on the inside part of the elbow. The spike in incidence of this surgery particularly in high school players has sparked intense initiatives aimed at identifying cause and developing guidelines (ie pitch count) to reduce risk.

Back and Lower Body Injury

Neck Pain (Softball Specific)