Event Website
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mrhOBe5g1Ke4YgXUiLFzWH0ablYwrlJhZN9C6STCONE/edit?usp=sharing
Start Date
14-12-2021 2:35 PM
Description
The rate of Tommy John surgery in baseball has exploded since the surgery was first invented in 1974, and especially since the year 2000. Teenage athletes, specifically, have been shown to be at the highest risk for the injury that necessitates Tommy John surgery – a tear in the Ulnar Collateral Ligament. This seems like a recipe for disaster – and in 2020, the epidemic took the life of 20-year-old pitcher Sang Ho Baek, who tragically passed from complications from TJS. Lots of work has been done to uncover potential causes for TJS, and Early Trunk Rotation, or ETR, shows promise as a potential biomechanical factor. However, only one study, and a flawed one at that, has really dug into the issue of ETR and if it impacts TJS, and this premise can easily be expanded upon with further, more detailed analysis. In this proposal, I plan on investigating the relationship between ETR and upper extremity injuries in baseball pitchers. I expect to generate a statistical analysis, and I hope that this analysis will both demonstrate the significance of ETR as a factor in these injuries and serve as a potential pathway to other analyses in the same vein.
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Biomechanics and Tommy John Surgery - an Investigation
The rate of Tommy John surgery in baseball has exploded since the surgery was first invented in 1974, and especially since the year 2000. Teenage athletes, specifically, have been shown to be at the highest risk for the injury that necessitates Tommy John surgery – a tear in the Ulnar Collateral Ligament. This seems like a recipe for disaster – and in 2020, the epidemic took the life of 20-year-old pitcher Sang Ho Baek, who tragically passed from complications from TJS. Lots of work has been done to uncover potential causes for TJS, and Early Trunk Rotation, or ETR, shows promise as a potential biomechanical factor. However, only one study, and a flawed one at that, has really dug into the issue of ETR and if it impacts TJS, and this premise can easily be expanded upon with further, more detailed analysis. In this proposal, I plan on investigating the relationship between ETR and upper extremity injuries in baseball pitchers. I expect to generate a statistical analysis, and I hope that this analysis will both demonstrate the significance of ETR as a factor in these injuries and serve as a potential pathway to other analyses in the same vein.
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/honors-research-and-exhibition/2021fall/section-03/3
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Mentor: Hannah Dove