Pitching Restriction Policies in Adolescent and High-School Baseball Pitchers: Is It Time for an Updated Paradigm?

Pitching Restriction Policies in Adolescent and High-School Baseball Pitchers: Is It Time for an Updated Paradigm?

We discuss an editorial published in the January 2024 issue of CJSM with the author, Dr. Jason Zaremski who runs a throwing clinic at the University of Florida. We also speak with one of his patients who suffered a UCL injury, Grant Gano, and his father, Steve. We discuss loopholes in the current pitching recommendations, how they might be modified, and sneak in a conversation about softball injuries too.

Gender Disparities in Professional Team Sports Physicians

We review the findings of the study investigating the gender makeup of professional sports team physicians with senior author and orthopedic sports medicine team physician at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Amit Momaya. Then we speak with South African team physician Dr. Phatho Zondi about her experience covering professional sports teams. Finally, we discuss strategies to improve inclusion of female sports medicine physicians in professional and elite teams.

Concussion testing and access to sports medicine care in wheelchair athletes

A conversation with Dr. J.P. Barfield, Department Chair of Applied Physiology, Health, & Clinical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte about his team’s study published in the September 2023 issue of CJSM about concussion testing in wheelchair athletes. We’re also joined by Mack Johnson, formed D1 collegiate wheelchair basketball player to discuss the care of wheelchair sport athletes.

Link Between the Female Athlete Triad and Gymnastics-Related Injury in Retired Collegiate Gymnasts

We review a study published in the July 2023 issue of CJSM with the senior author Emiley Sweeney, MD, pediatric sports medicine physician at the University of Colorado. The study evaluated the association between disordered eating, menstrual irregularity, and injury in collegiate gymnasts. We also spoke with CJ Keuneke, current elite level 10 gymnast, and her mother, Kelly Carfora, former gymnast at the University of Michigan about their experiences.

How do physical contact, injury, and penalties differ between boys and girls youth ice hockey?

We’re joined by Rylen Williamson, a rising second year medical student and first author of a series of studies in the Journal investigating contact and injury in youth hockey. In the second half of the episode, we speak with Britta Curl, captain of the University of Wisconsin hockey team and member of the USA Hockey team to discuss her experiences in hockey. The primary article can be found at: https://journals.lww.com/cjsportsmed/Fulltext/9900/Physical_Contact_and_Suspected_Injury_Rates_in.114.aspx