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Injuries

            
            
             Injuries are an inevitable part of life and are caused for many different reasons. There are injuries in every realm from work to play to sports. Specifically, injuries that occur in sporting related incidences are a common and substantial part of the game. With injuries ranging from practice to the game field athletes are always putting their bodies on the line. Within the confines of baseball and softball, they both share common ground on the types of injuries that occur. Shoulder injuries in general affect numerous players in both sports. But, pitchers are most prone to injury due to the great amount of stress placed on the shoulder area because of the repetitiveness of pitching. Baseball and softball pitching require different techniques. These techniques acquire different levels of stress and injury for the pitchers. Baseball pitching is over handed, while softball pitching is underhanded or windmill style. With these two contrasting styles of pitching, there are different types of injuries and reasons for them occurring.
             Through the research found on this topic most of the articles concluded the same facts and results. They found that the underhanded motion of a softball player's pitch places less strain on the shoulder and elbow joints. Thus, concluding that a softball pitcher can last longer than a baseball pitcher because of the amount of strain delivered when pitching. Research has shown that baseball injuries while throwing is at 20.4% where as softball is only 11.0%. Other injuries include forearms, wrists or hands at 25.1% for baseball and 24.2% for softball. They obtained this information mainly through field study and logging and comparing injuries against each other. .
             I plan to research this idea two different ways. My first act of research is going to be a questionnaire to be filled out by pitchers of both sports and of all ages. After this I plan to conduct a survey to get any extra information that could be useful.


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Head injuries may indicate that the head may have been snapped in one of more directions. ... However, deformity or an odd looking angle of the head serves as the best clue to a serious spinal injury. ... If no reaction occurs, spinal injury is likely. ... The only real precaution that you should take to avoid a spinal injury is to think before you act. ... -Fifteen to twenty percent of head injury victims also have neck or spinal cord injuries -The spine is made up of thirty three cylindrical bones. ...

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2. Spinal Cord Injuries

SPINAL CORD INJURIES Spinal cord injuries can be very devastating. ... Although spinal injuries are only a small fraction of all injuries; accidents cause an estimated 10,000 spinal cord injuries each year. ... Pain is not always a symptom of injury to the spinal cord, but injury to nearby nerves sometimes causes sever pain. ... (What Is Spinal Injury-http://www.neurosurgery .org.8089/pubpages/patres/faq spine.html) It is impearative that a spinal injury victim is treated within the first eight hours after the injury. ... (What is a spinal injury?...

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3. Head Injuries in the National Football League

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4. Correlation between Brain Injury and Criminal Behavior

What if that "normal child- was now going to be a criminal for the rest of its life due to an undetected brain injury? ... Many complications can happen due to a head injury during development, but a lot of people don't focus on birth complications. ... In one particular study done on patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), it was noted that "regardless of arrest history, motor vehicle accidents were the most common cause of injury- (Kolakowsky-Hayner, Stephanie A.; Kreutzer, Jeffrey S., 2001, p60). ... Head injuries during development, in many studies, show a high correlation with...

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5. Phantom Pains From Nerve Injuries

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6. Rotator Cuff Injuries

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7. Brain Damage

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8. Gun Control

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9. Ankle Injury

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