To avoid baseball, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, and hamstring injury

To avoid baseball, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, shoulders, and hamstring injury

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The 2024 KBO League, which ended with the KIA Tigers' victory, was hugely popular with the largest attendance in the history of the regular season and the post season. An increasing number of people are enjoying baseball as a hobby. Baseball contents are being created through various channels including TV entertainment programs, YouTube channels, and Instagram. Many people exercise in person through the amateur baseball clubs.

Baseball, Aerobic + Muscle Exercise Effects

Baseball is an aerobic exercise that helps improve cardiopulmonary endurance and physical strength. It is also effective in cultivating social skills by developing a sense of cooperation and learning responsibility through interaction as a team sport. Since baseball uses full-body muscles for various movements such as running, pitching, and hitting, it is also effective in improving muscle strength. As baseball requires strong force, it not only increases the mobility and flexibility of shoulder joints, but also strengthens the shoulders and arms that wield baseball bats, and rotates them with legs fixed, thereby strengthening the muscles of the waist, abdomen, and lower body. However, due to rapid physical changes and movements, such as bruising caused by a ball thrown by a pitcher or colliding with a runner running during defense, caution is required.

"Baseball is a sport that has both aerobic and anaerobic effects, and helps improve muscle strength, agility and quickness. However, due to rapid rotation or excessive movements, the risk of injury to the shoulder, knee, and waist is also high, which requires attention," said Yeo Woo-jin, head of the joint center at Barunseang Hospital.

Baseball is at highest risk of shoulder injury

In baseball, shoulder injury is the greatest risk. In particular, shoulder injury is destined to happen to a pitcher. Typical examples of shoulder injury are rotator cuff rupture and joint and spinal cord damage.

The rotator cuff rupture is a disease in which the tendon (rotator cuff) surrounding the shoulder is ruptured due to sudden trauma. The rotator cuff, which consists of four tendons (extreme cuff, subcapsular cuff, distal cuff, and subcapsular cuff), is a tissue that is involved in shoulder joint movement, such as lifting or rotating the shoulder. Causes of rupture include cases in which the tendon is repeatedly shocked or gradually broken due to aging, trauma, and excessive exercise. There is a high risk of developing an exercise that rotates the arm, such as baseball.

Depending on the extent of the rupture, the two parts are divided into partial and complete rupture. If the part is ruptured, conservative treatments such as medication, physical therapy, or rehabilitation therapy alone can sufficiently improve the condition. However, since complete rupture is difficult to recover naturally, further damage to the shoulder joint can be prevented only when treated through rotator cuff opening surgery using joint endoscopy.

"The treatment for rotator cuff rupture varies depending on the patient's condition, but surgery is the only treatment in case of complete rupture. If the ruptured condition is left untreated for a long time, the joint membrane becomes hard or the ruptured area widens, making it difficult to suture or increasing the likelihood of recurrence after surgery. As treatment methods and results vary depending on the timing of treatment, early diagnosis and treatment of shoulder pain disease are very important."

In the process of pulling the arm back and throwing the ball while placing it on the back, damage to the upper joint and the spine of the upper shoulder joint bone is caused. When the joint and spine are ruptured, it is so severe that it is difficult to wear and take them off.

Because upper joint spondyloid rupture is a structure that has similar symptoms to other shoulder diseases and is deeply located in the joint, it is difficult to diagnose with X-rays or ultrasound, and a detailed examination using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) should be performed. Joint spondyl rupture is common among young patients in their 20s and 30s who enjoy exercise. In the case of young patients, special care should be taken because shoulder pain is considered muscle pain and may develop into a chronic disease by neglecting symptoms. 스포츠토토

In addition, shoulder collision syndrome due to repetitive shoulder stress and shoulder dislocation due to sliding may occur in a large range of motion. As there are various shoulder injuries caused by baseball, it is also important to prevent injuries. It is helpful to warm up the body by increasing the heart rate and body temperature through light aerobic exercise, and to increase the flexibility and range of motion of the joints.