Throwing with the whole body: non-uniform muscle volume profiles in collegiate baseball pitchers.

Lara Riem¹, Olivia DuCharme¹, Kathryn Eve Costanzo¹, Liza Harold¹, Emily McCain¹, Megan Pinette¹, Ashley Coggins¹, Matthew Cousins¹, Raina Hein¹, Elizabeth Hebert², Silvia S Blemker³

¹Springbok Analytics, Charlottesville, VA, USA.

²Major League Baseball, New York, NY, USA.

³Springbok Analytics, Charlottesville, VA, USA; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. Electronic address: silvia.blemker@springbokanalytics.com.

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Abstract

High-speed baseball pitching imposes unique demands on the musculoskeletal system, requiring coordinated force generation across the entire body. Whilepreviousstudies have examined strength or morphology in isolated regions, the full-body distribution of muscle volume in pitchersremainspoorly characterized. This study usedin vivoMRI to quantify muscle volume across 70 upperextremity,lower extremit…

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