Morgan Kalman

The Importance of the Hip in the Throwing Athlete

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The Kinetic Chain is a term used by most sports medicine and exercise science professionals to describe a sequence or a chain of events that take place in order for an athlete to throw (Figure 1). For a pitcher, the sequence of events start from the push off of the rubber on the mound to the follow through where the pitcher rolls off of the mound.

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