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Study: Half of all HS pitchers report pain in throwing arm

June 1, 2018 / Baseball • Sports Medicine & Nutrition

COLUMBUS, Ohio — More than half of high school baseball pitchers report experiencing pain in their throwing arms during the season. To better understand the cause of these injuries, researchers at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center conducted a new study to determine when and why overuse injuries are occurring.

"We found that the number of injuries peaked early — only about four weeks in — and then slowly declined until the end of the season," said James Onate, associate professor of health and rehabilitation sciences at the Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute. "We see a lot of kids who didn't prepare in the offseason and, when their workload goes through the roof, they're not prepared for the demand of throwing."

To accurately assess the timing and severity of their pain, 97 high school pitchers were asked to submit a weekly questionnaire via text message.

"Most of the pain reported was mild or moderate and players were actually continuing to play through it," said Mike McNally, research associate in Ohio State University's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. "Part of the reason we think we're seeing a decline is because players start to get used to playing through the pain as the season goes on. So they likely still have that pain, it just doesn't affect them like it used to."

Researchers are also exploring the biomechanics behind overuse injuries. The research team developed a high-tech pitching mound that measures the amount of force being driven by the legs, trunk and arms when throwing, as well as a pre-season program to help pitchers properly prepare their bodies to avoid injuries.

"We're starting to pinpoint what's going to be the personalized approach to an individual to be able to throw, and then tweak it from there," Onate said. "The whole goal is to keep the kids safe to be able to do what they want to do."

Ohio State researchers are advocating that the high school baseball season be extended so that games postponed due to inclement weather can be spread out over several weeks. Pitchers typically throw their hardest during competition, while limiting their effort and number of pitches in practices, so playing too many games in close succession may lead to more injuries.

"Spreading out games is important in that it allows players to get some recovery time. Rainouts and postponements force kids to go from playing a few games a week to five or six games per week," McNally said. "When that happens, you have a high school kid that's essentially playing a major league schedule, which can accumulate and cause more pain and injuries."

The research team included Ajit Chaudhari from Ohio State's Wexner Medical Center, as well as Jingzhen Yang and Kevin Klingele from Nationwide Children's Hospital.

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Ten business truisms that apply to coaching, sports | Coach & Athletic Director

10 business truisms that apply to coaching | Coach & Athletic Director

10 business truisms that apply to coaching | Coach & Athletic Director Here are 10 truisms embraced by business professionals that can help coaches and athletic directors lead their s...

Ten coaching truisms

1. If you don't know, say so. If you don't know what you're talking about, stop talking. Too often, we think we must have all the answers because of that adjective (coach) in front of our name. If we have all of the answers, that's because we've stopped learning, and that's never a good thing.

2. Don't jump ship before you hit the iceberg. Hang in their physically and mentally with your team until the bitter end. Most times, we can read the writing on the wall about our teams and we can tell when the season is a bust. That's no reason not to hit it hard with video, or to stop being creative in practice, or to cease trying to make your players better.

3. Confidence comes from success; knowledge comes from failure. In my mind, there's no greater teacher than failure and no greater motivator than success. I'm sure most of us wouldn't be the coaches we are today without some significant failure in our past, so use it as an opportunity to learn.

4. If you're miserable, quit and do something else. If you're still miserable, it's you. We've all been around the folks who complain all the time: Their team doesn't have enough financial support, they're working crazy hours, their team is underachieving, etc. So maybe coaching isn't your gig. If it is, the rest of us don't want to hear about it because we're happy.

5. People won't perform for those they don't respect. Your team doesn't have to love you or even like you (though that'd be nice), but they do have to respect you. They should respect your knowledge of the game, your interest in their well-being and the way you coach them. I'm not saying they should always agree with you, but respect is on a higher level.

6. If you're not passionate about what you're doing, you won't be successful. I once wrote a "Pyramid of Success" series, based on the John Wooden tool. One of the cornerstones of that pyramid is enthusiasm. If you have it, show it. If you don't have it, go get it. Enthusiasm and passion are critical to the success of your team.

7. Conflict is healthy; anger is not. Get some help for that. I once wrote an article about yelling at your players and provided three ways that you can get the most from your team without screaming at them. You're going to have to manage your team and, over the course of the season, that probably comes with conflict. Control yourself, so that you can control the situation.

8. No matter how smart you are, wisdom only comes from experience. When I first started coaching, I knew everything. And with each proceeding year, I knew less and less. Funny how that works out.
Book knowledge of how things should work with your team is only valuable when combined with the street knowledge of how things actually work. If you're new to coaching, hook up with someone who's been at it a while and learn all you can.

9. Whine and complain all you want — nothing will change. We'll listen to you, but we can't help — so why even start down that path? We can't make your alums more involved, or your recruits commit earlier, or your boss give you a raise. So let's celebrate the fact that we get to coach, teach kids life lessons and be happy with what we have.

10. The boss isn't always right, but they're still the boss. What else is there to say beyond that? Our job is to coach 'em up and make our bosses look good. Beyond that, we should give the boss the respect that we want from our teams.

I've always thought that the link between the athletics and business world is pretty strong and the article I found about business truisms was a good demonstration of that.

Dawn Redd is the head volleyball and assistant track & field coach at Beloit College in Wisconsin.

Umpires now required to give warnings before ejecting coaches | Coach and Athletic Director

Umpires must now give baseball coaches a warning before ejecting them from games. 

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This is going to work out well. This is what they want and generally get at the lower / travel levels. "Keep the coaches in the game. Give 'em a warning first or confine them to the dugout." So why would you take a procedure from a place where you have the worst outcomes and implement it where generally speaking you have the best outcomes?

It doesn't make sense but WDIK? ~;::::::;( )">  ¯\_( )_/¯

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July 6, 2015 / Baseball

The National Federation of State High School Associations approved a new rule that requires umpires to give baseball coaches a warning before ejecting them from games.

Previously, umpires were given the freedom to determine whether they would issue a warning or go straight to ejecting a coach or restricting him or her to the bench/dugout. The new rule will be enforced beginning with the 2016 season.

From the NFHS:

"The new rule change has initiated a penalty progression, starting with a written warning, restriction to the bench/dugout and subsequent ejection from the contest," said Elliot Hopkins, NFHS director of sports and student services and liaison to the Baseball Rules Committee.

The changes to Rule 3-3-1 Penalty will help to de-escalate contentious situations and allow coaches to dictate their status in the game by their behavior, Hopkins said.

"A successful game official practices preventive officiating, and this new penalty progression will allow the official to issue penalties that give the coach the opportunity to remain in the game and teach his players."

Another change approved by the NFHS Board of Directors states that a coach, player or any other personnel may not "have any physical contact, spitting, kicking of dirt or any other physical action directed toward an umpire," according to a news release.

"Bad behavior that is being imitated from other levels has no place in education-based athletics and will not be tolerated," Hopkins said in the press release. "If we are to continue to use sport to teach life lessons, then we have to ensure that appropriate behavior and conduct are modeled from those adults in the role of coach/teacher."

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College athletes overestimate their chances of going pro | Coach and Athletic Director

Illusory Superiority or the Lake Wobegon effect writ large. This isn't the kids fault BTW. They should dream big dreams by their very nature. The people responsible for their future should sprinkle in occasional doses of reality from time to time. It's the difficult part of parenting, coaching and leading, that whole reality, being objective and truthful thing.



Eventually you encounter life, which bares no resemblance whatsoever to Candy-Land. If that fantasy vs. reality thing smacks you in the face like a two-by-four at some point in your life, by all means, blame your parents. Just don't smack them in the face with a two by four.



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Here’s a look at the disparity in those who go pro versus those who believe they’ll go pro (via Inside Higher Ed): 

• Men’s hockey: 63% believe they will play professionally — reality is 0.8%

•  Men’s basketball: 76% believe they will play professionally — reality is 1.2%

•  Women’s basketball: 44% believe they will play professionally — reality is 1.9%

•  Baseball: 60% believe they will play professionally — reality is 9.4%

• Football: 52% believe they will play professionally — reality is 1.6%

It’s OK to dream, but a lot of times that fantasy leads student-athletes to neglect their studies and what should be their real priority: earning a degree.

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The Lake Wobegon effect[edit]

Main article: Illusory superiority

The Lake Wobegon effect, a natural human tendency to overestimate one's capabilities, is named after the town. The characterization of the fictional location, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average," has been used to describe a real and pervasive human tendency to overestimate one's achievements and capabilities in relation to others. The Lake Wobegon effect, where all or nearly all of a group claim to be above average, has been observed in high school students' appraisal of their leadership,^[8] drivers' assessments of their driving skill,^[9] and cancer patients' expectations of survival.^[10]