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🚨No mandatory pitch count doesn’t mean no need for rest🚨

Softball pitchers may not have the same mandatory pitch count rules as baseball, but that doesn’t mean their bodies don’t need time to recover.

Injuries happen when the body doesn’t have the capacity to handle the demands being placed on it.

If we continually ask the body to throw, compete, and perform without giving it the opportunity to restore strength and maintain mobility, we increase the risk of injury.

Taking care of your body is part of the process 💪🥎

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Hi everyone! 👋 My name is Emma, and I’m so excited to have joined the team here at Hex PTP as a Physical Therapist over the past month!

I grew up playing softball for Team PA and went on to play Division I softball at Towson University before earning my Doctorate in Physical Therapy from Duquesne University.
Outside of work, I enjoy staying active through CrossFit and Olympic weightlifting.

My passion is working with athletes… and that includes all levels, from adults pursuing fitness and performance goals to baseball and softball athletes looking to stay healthy and performing at their best.

I’m excited to continue to bring my experience as both an athlete and a physical therapist to the team and help athletes of all levels keep doing what they love! 💪🏋️‍♀️⚾️🥎

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Not all baseball injuries are shoulders and elbows. Sometimes, one of your doofus patients rolls their ankle trying to grab a physioball off a shelf during a workout. REGARDLESS, we are here to help get your right now matter how uncoordinated you might be.   #BaseballPT #BaseballRehab #anklesprain #Recovery #Baseball

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Post-Throw TLC   I’ll repeat myself until I am blue in the face about the idea that you will lose shoulder overhead motion after throwing at high intent. It is imperative that you address that between outings and over the course of the entire year.   Soft tissue work is not the only option for this, but it is certainly a good one. Some people call this “massage,” but I think @brandennbrownn would disagree with that.   #ArmCare #BaseballRehab #BaseballPT #Pitching #ManualTherapy

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#Maryland No.1 Batting Cages and World class facilities for Baseball,Softball & Cricket #baseballtraining #softballtraining #crickettraining #youthsports #winterworkouts

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IMPORTANCE OF STRONG INTERNAL ROTATORS   I have evaluated very few amateur baseball players with strong, or even adequate, internal rotation strength. Without enough IR strength, your body is going to look for ways to reduce the amount of demand on the internal rotators.   Your IRs are responsible for not only helping stabilize the front of the shoulder at max ER, but they’re also responsible for accelerating the arm forward into release.   Without adequate IR strength, you’re leaving MPH on the table and, most importantly, increasing your likelihood of injury.   With all the love that we give our external rotators with our “cuff work,” we have to remember to load up those internal rotators heavy!   #Baseball #ArmCare #BaseballPT #BaseballRehab #RotatorCuff

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If actually throwing a baseball is not part of your rehab, then what are you even doing?????   Tear your ACL or strain your hamstring, and you bet your butt you’re gonna be doing extensive plyometrics, sprinting, changing direction, and conditioning in your rehab.   Why is a UCL or shoulder injury any different?   Baseball rehab NEEDS to include throwing progressions as part of a comprehensive plan to get the player back to performing at their peak.  
Don’t settle for sub-par “sports PT” where you spend 3/4 of your session doing banded ER and wall slides.   BTW this is me cherishing every last moment of being able to throw harder than @dash.c3 because it’s not gonna last much longer. Dude is SMASHING his TJ3 rehab.    #BaseballPT #BaseballRehab #ArmCare #Recovery #Baseball

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Full disclosure: I am getting paid $0 for this! Invoice is in the mail, @armoreau @flexprogrip !!  Most guys think forearm training starts and ends with dead hangs and heavy deadlifts. The FlexPro Grip is built to actually isolate and load the specific muscles that control finger flexion, finger extension, and ulnar/radial deviation of the wrist. Not only that, but it accurately quantifies your strength and rate of force development (hello spin rate) so that you can reliably measure progress or readiness day to day.  
Why does this matter for throwers specifically? Muscles like the flexor carpi ulnaris and flexor digitorum profundus are doing a huge chunk of the work to handle the massive forces endured from layback to release. Strong, well-trained finger flexors help offload stress from the UCL during the throw. If your fingers and forearm muscles/tendons aren’t pulling their weight, your UCL ends up picking up the slack. 
The FPG isnt exclusively a rehabilitation device. It can also improve your spin rate. You don’t need more velocity to spin the ball better; you need to apply force to the ball faster in that split second before release. Train the fingers to fire faster, and the spin rate follows. 
Stop treating your grip work as an accessory and make it a priority.

#baseballpt #baseballrehab #armcare #recovery #spinrate

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If you decide to completely shut it down in August, I WILL be seeing you in September. 
Here’s why… 
The deficits you picked up this season don’t fix themselves in the off time. The internal rotation you lost. The rotator cuff strength that quietly plummeted. The flexor/pronator endurance you were leaning on by July. That subtle elbow discomfort you were wishfully ignoring. None of that resolves by doing nothing (shocker).  
So you have a choice to make.   If you know what needs some love, go give it the love it needs. If you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, come in and find out. I run a comprehensive evaluation that collects objective data on strength, range of motion, and endurance so you know exactly what to target before you’re back on the mound. 
OR….  You can ignore all the above and gamble on feeling good come Labor Day!   Easy choice IMO 
#BaseballPT #BaseballRehab #ArmCare #Recovery #Baseball

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@chiseled_life run club

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“My PT wants ot change my throwing mechanics”  Hearing this gives me the heebie jeebies. NO, not because I think I am the ONLY person who is qualified to do this. Because coaching is freaking hard!! Coaching somebody to throw a baseball is even harder!   PTs, in general, are not formally trained in how to improve throwing mechanics. Just because you’re a self-labeled “baseball PT” does not mean that you should be magically trusted to alter somebody’s throwing mechanics.  
Either refer out to a pitching coach, training facility, or to another PT that is actually equipped to coach throwers :)   #BaseballPT #TommyJohnRehab #ThrowingMechanics #PitchingCoach #PitchingMechanics

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🎯PICK A FREAKING TARGET, BOZO 🎯

Plyos are a staple of a large chunk of throwers’ routines at this stage. What I find funny is that most of the time when I ask where their target is, I dont get a clear answer.   “uhhhh, in the middle…?”   “like, there”  “Idk I just throw”   You’re driving without a destination and wondering why you’re not there yet. Dont get me wrong, a good, aimless, summertime cruise with the windows down can be good every now and again, but we should usually have a destination in mind.   We also need to make sure the GPS location of our destination is ACTUALLY correct. Cant be showing up to the wrong party (I have actually done this, not kidding).   Your target should be around eye-level and to the throwing-arm side of your head.

#HexPTP #PlyoBalls #Pitching #PhysicalTherapy #BaseballPhysicalTherapy

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