Elbow Injury Among Pitchers: Looking In The Wrong Place (Part 5 of 5 -Tri-Plane Lunges For Improved Hip Function In 3 Planes Of Motion)

All muscles and joints move in three planes of motion, and this is most necessary in the hip complex. Consider the hips as the crossroads of the body. When motion commences from the foot upward into the hips and through the spine to the arm, the transitional zone is the hips. When throwing a ball and the arm moves through the acceleration and deceleration phases, the arm action affects the hips and feet.

One key point… I see many players with tight adductors (inner thigh muscles) when moving side to side, as driving down the mound, if a player is tight in the inter thigh, they will be tight and weak on the lateral side of the opposite gluteal complex. If they are tight in the frontal plane (side to side movements), they will be tight into internal rotation of that hip.

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