Baseball players represent an interesting population in how they treat their throwing arms.  It's often ritualistic in how they handle their throwing arm as their prized possession.  Players are constantly conscious of their arms, ensuring they don’t sleep on them wrong, avoid overuse, and sometimes avoid lifting heavy weights altogether. Or in other cases, some…

"You can't speed it up if you can't slow it down." This adage means that you can only move with the speed your body can decelerate. For that reason, deceleration strength is a crucial component for the health and performance of baseball players, and it involves a balance of strength on either side of the…

In 1978, Dr. Gabe Mirkin pushed the term RICE (Rest, Ice, Compression, & Elevation.) He has since changed his point of view on the use of ice and compression as it relates to healing and says that it may actually have the reverse effect and inhibit healing.  This is largely unknown by the baseball…