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Muscle Activity Evaluation of Baseball Prehab Activities

Giesige, Tyler J
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors161968877108208

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2021, Bachelor of Science, Walsh University, Honors.
Currently, there is limited information regarding the activation of muscles in the upper extremities during prehabilitation techniques in baseball pitchers. Prehabilitation exercises are widely used prior to games to prepare the body ready to perform at the highest level. A common prehabilitation activity that is done with baseball pitchers are J-Bands. J-Bands are used at almost every level of baseball as a warmup technique for pitchers before they go into a game to pitch. This study compared the muscle activity in the triceps and serratus anterior in 14 different male pitchers during two different bullpen sessions. The triceps and serratus anterior were the two muscles chosen to test because they are two of the most active muscles in the entire pitching motion for a pitcher. The first session would be with the use of the J-Band warmup while the second session would be a standard warm-up without the use of a J-Band warmup. The differences between the muscle activity after throwing 5 pitches in each session was calculated. Independent sample t tests revealed a significant difference in the average triceps activity between the standard session and the J-Band session. The average muscle activity in the triceps was much greater during the 5-pitch session with the J-Band warmup compared to the warmup without using the J-Bands. No other significant differences were found in the peak triceps muscle activity or the average or peak muscle activity in the serratus anterior. These results indicate that the J-Band warmup was generally more catered to the upper arm extremity compared to the muscles surrounding the back or serratus anterior. The results show that the J-Band prehabilitation warm-up is effective overall.
Kelton Mehls , Dr. (Advisor)
33 p.
Physical Therapy; Science Education
prehabilitation; J-Bands; muscle activity

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  • Giesige, T. J. (2021). Muscle Activity Evaluation of Baseball Prehab Activities [Undergraduate thesis, Walsh University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors161968877108208

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Giesige, Tyler. Muscle Activity Evaluation of Baseball Prehab Activities . 2021. Walsh University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors161968877108208.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Giesige, Tyler. "Muscle Activity Evaluation of Baseball Prehab Activities ." Undergraduate thesis, Walsh University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors161968877108208

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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© 2021, some rights reserved.Creative Commons License Muscle Activity Evaluation of Baseball Prehab Activities by Tyler J Giesige is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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