Baseball pitching injuries in growing athletes.

Abstract

pathological changes found in elbow joints of young pitchers and correlated with these findings the stress exerted on this joint in pitching a baseball. Tulloss and King’ in 1972 further described pathological changes occurring in the shoulder and elbow joints of adolescents as well as professional pitchers and correlated these findings with their excellent description of the pitching cycle. It is the purpose of this report first to confirm the pathological findings previously reported by these authors and to report eight