Pearl River sophomore Emily Turilli said she has "no idea" how many pitches she throws each game, and chuckled at the thought.
With underhand, there's not as much pressure, it's more getting momentum going into (a pitch)." "Overhand (throwing) has more force on the elbow and the shoulder. "The only time I've seen injuries with the shoulder or the arm is when (a pitcher) didn't have proper mechanics," said Suffern coach Melissa Luciano, a former catcher at Western Connecticut. Of course, how you throw a pitch makes a difference. James Andrews, one of the top Tommy John surgeons in the world, told MLB.com.Ī survey conducted in 2012-13 among active major league baseball players revealed that 25 percent of pitchers underwent the famed elbow-ligament replacement surgery at some point in their careers.īut when it comes to softball, girls rarely, if ever, injure their arms from overuse severely enough to require surgery. Younger baseball pitchers are undergoing surgery at an "unprecedented" rate, Dr. There are no established guidelines on how many pitches are too many, and no regulations are being considered, though some researchers suggest that the number of girls being injured is significantly underestimated. Few coaches and physical therapists, if any, express concern over the number of pitches thrown.
Softball pitchers, on the other hand, are throwing multiple complete games a week. Precautions such as pitch counts and days' rest are used by coaches to keep arms healthy, but despite all of the attempts to protect pitchers, the number of Tommy John surgeries - the usual end result when a pitcher's arm is injured from overuse - continues to soar. View Gallery: Softball pitchers motions revealed in multi-image photosįor aspiring baseball pitchers, the throwing arm is treated as a fragile package - an object that must be cared for, tended to often, and capable of being damaged at any moment.
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