Strength in Numbers #88
I had dinner with a friend of mine who is a great physical therapist a few nights ago and said something to the effect of,
"If you want to stay current, conduct research. If you want to be informed, read research within the past two years. If you want to be…
Ryan Crotin, PhD CSCS RSCC, Executive Vice President
Passive range of motion tests pin down the scapula and does not allow any intermuscular interactions to happen. Therefore the test isolates pure shoulder rotation. It does not account for ribcage movement, pliability or dimensions, thoracic extension, clavicular elevation, triplanar scapular movement, or intra-abdominal pressure, all of which contribute to the layback.
One thing that…
Strength in Numbers #87
It is always interesting to me when injuries start to happen in Spring Training. People sit together after the day, wondering what happened, and throw out different explanations for losing a player for the season.
Even minor problems become problematic because of the fear that they may become chronic or progressively…
The arrival of Spring Training reminds me of my time in Major League Baseball. I am incredibly grateful that I got to serve some of the game's best and work with amazing people who had intellectual curiosity and a drive for a winning culture.
In this week's newsletter, I will let you in on some…
When you describe movement and quantify it, you have landed in kinematics land. In this article, we'll break down the four biomechanical features of Kinematics and relate them to pitching.
Timing
This involves when things happen in the delivery that can be measured either in percent-time, total time, or associated with a discrete event such as peak knee…
I am happy to say that the Certified Pitching Biomechanics Course is now live in the course library. I have had many emails and texts about the content and newness of the information and its applications.
DEATH BY THE CURE
In response to my content on pitching, I get a lot of technical questions about developing pitching…
Strength in Numbers #82
Over two years in the making, the Certified Pitching Biomechanist Course is finally available. We have yet to launch this outside the ABCA Conference, but we want to invite you all to dive into this course.
Who better to cut the red tape than our trusted and valued weekly readers?
We are putting…
Strength in Numbers #81
Last week I introduced you to the F'D Up Burnout Cycle. Of course, it happens to us all and occurs more to people who are wildly passionate about something they cannot put down easily.
The cycle of forgetting, being frustrated, being fatigued, and feeling like a failure is the f's that lead…
Strength in Numbers #80
The aftermath of the ABCA conference has been a whirlwind.
Within 45 days, I delivered a presentation for the 2022 Virtual Baseball Performance Summit and launched our Certified Pitching Biomechanist Course at Exos in Phoenix, AZ.
Then the following weekend, I spoke at the Wake Forest Conference at the Bridge…
Strength in Numbers #79
On Thursday, January 5th, 2023, we marked one year since the official release of the ArmCare Platform at the ABCA Conference in Chicago.
Our launch at last year's ABCA was a modest event for us, with mainly sports medicine and healthcare specialists in the crowd at our expo presentation and…