Increased Tendon Thickness in Healthy Collegiate Baseball Pitchers Is Associated With Fewer Years of Pitching and Less External Rotation Motion Adjusted for Humeral Torsion
Sports Health: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Published online on July 09, 2026
Abstract
Sports Health, Ahead of Print.
Background:Mechanistic models of rotator cuff (RC) tendinopathy implicate repetitive loading as a driver of tendon structural changes. Baseball pitchers experience repetitive loading and physical adaptations in shoulder range of motion (ROM) and humeral ...
Background:Mechanistic models of rotator cuff (RC) tendinopathy implicate repetitive loading as a driver of tendon structural changes. Baseball pitchers experience repetitive loading and physical adaptations in shoulder range of motion (ROM) and humeral ...