The Preseason Functional Movement Screen as a Predictive Tool for Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in High School Baseball Pitchers: A Prospective Cohort Study
In right-handed high school baseball pitchers, a low FMS score for rotary stability on the dominant side during the preseason was a significant independent risk factor for injuries in the following season. The FMS score for rotary stability may be used as a predictive tool for the occurrence of pitching injuries in high school baseball pitchers.
Authors
- Hitoshi Shitara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3547-0718)
- Tsuyoshi Tajika (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-5315)
- Ryosuke Miyamoto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5852-1314)
- Yuhei Hatori
- Masataka Kamiyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2406-5688)
- Tsuyoshi Ichinose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2663-5314)
- Kurumi Nakase (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7401-2504)
- Hirotaka Chikuda (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7913-1542)
- Tsuyoshi Sasaki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6312-4009)
- Noritaka Hamano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5737-4183)
- Koichiro Yanai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-3309-3851)
- Fukuhisa Ino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9691-8767)
Institutions
- Gunma University (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine
- Published
- 2025-02-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1177/23259671241305607
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.01
Funders
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine