Bøger af Max Wardell

Training and rehabilitation of throwing athletes often lacks a holistic approach that is based on the fundamental sciences that govern how we move, heal, and think. Successful rehabilitation of complex throwing related injuries requires a culmination of in-depth knowledge of biomechanics, physiology, motor learning, and orthopedic injuries. Likewise, peak performance is never truly attained without a blend of interventions focused around the aforementioned sciences. This book will combine these sciences with experience of the art of sport to create an actionable approach that is aimed at altering the perspective of high-level coaches and clinicians who rehabilitate and train baseball players. Numerous athletes, in fact thousands of athletes walk into the physician's office or physical therapy clinic daily with throwing injuries. Frankly, many of these athletes may never throw another ball competitively again. A specific and proven approach to optimizing their healing and recovery can get these athletes back on the field. Furthermore, quality assessment and training of these athletes prior to injury may have prevented future injury while simultaneously allowing the athlete to realize their full potential on the field. This book will provide an understanding of the foundational sciences that guide therapeutic and performance enhancing interventions. Readers will next move into a unique assessment approach to truly discover where each athlete is limited and succeeding. This book will provide a comprehensive guide to common orthopedic pathologies in throwers with associated biomechanical faults. Understanding how the body moves and how it can potentially move requires screening and assessment processes that can identify where and how an athlete may compensate and rob themselves of speed or where they may have the capacity to move more effectively allowing them to better recruit velocity. Throwing analysis requires more than observation of traditional coaching models or just an understanding of physics but also an understanding of how the nervous system coordinates the movement apparatus as a whole and how intricate joint motions can correlate to injury or inefficiency. The most commonly neglected component of training and rehabilitation programs for throwing and pitching athletes are biomechanical and motor learning interventions that are focused around improving the sequencing of the throw to allow athletes to move through the throw without placing pathologic stresses on their shoulder or elbow. The most potent exercises are designed around an understanding of how the body actually moves in contextual sporting environments. Readers will ultimately gain an understanding of every aspect of creating or recreating durable, elite level throwers. Our goal is and has always been to protect as many athletes as possible from injury and assist athletes in reaching their full potential. We are glad that you are joining us on this mission to elevate the level of care and effectiveness of training for all throwing athletes through scientifically backed and medically justified techniques and interventions. We see this text as a catalyst towards more optimal performance training and effective rehabilitation across the board for pitchers and throwers alike.

This book serves as a practical guide to maximizing clinicians effectiveness in rehabilitating overhead throwing athletes. Topics covered will include throwing mechanics, assessment of throwing athletes, and manual therapy with the primary focus of this guide being exercise interventions. Assessment strategies and exercise interventions will be laid out in a progression that can be easily followed and implemented in the clinic today. The inspiration for this book comes from my professional baseball career ending prematurely due to injury. Shortly after I made the 40-man roster for the New York Yankees, I sustained a shoulder injury that altered my career and life. I nearly made it back up to the MLB before sustaining another serious throwing injury. After multiple injuries and surgeries, I dedicated my life and future career, physical therapy, to discovering why throwing injuries occur and how to prevent them. The goal of this book is to give clinicians practical tools and interventions that they can add to their toolbox, without bogging them down with extraneous material and information. My goal for you is that you can make a difference in throwing athletes careers so they dont have to experience the same career ending injuries that I endured.