whats thte best way to treat arm pain due to playing baseball?
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The best thing to do is put an ice-pack on, take a few aspirin, and rest up. Don't continue to play baseball if your arm is hurting! If the pain does not fade over the next few days, Call A Doctor. The worst pains are the ones left unattended.
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Start with the fastball, and work on placement and control.  Try different grips, holding the ball across two and four seams (two seams is along the stitching, four is across, most basically).  See how the ball moves, and perfect those pitches.\n\nThen work on a circle change.  Hold the ball with your index finger completely curled up so you can't see any light through the center of the curl.  Position you other 3 fingers naturally, and throw like a fastball.  It'll give you screwball action without hurting you arm, and it'll take 12-15 mph off the pitch, too.\n\nOnce you have those mastered, try the other pitches.  Get a good pitching coach to teach you how to grip them best.  A split-finger fastball (a/k/a a forkball) is a great pitch to have; it dives at the last second.  A curve is okay IF you can throw it naturally without anything hurting.  At 13, though, you're too young to be throwing it.  I'd wait at least 3 years, until your arm grows more.\n\nWith respect to one of the other posters, I would NOT learn a slider.  It's hard on your elbow... you don't snap your wrist when you throw it, so you do more of a stiff-arm with it.  Plus, if you throw it poorly, it gets hit about 500 feet.  If you want to try it, learn the curve first and see how it is for you.\n\nThe one pitch I advise against ever throwing is the screwball.  It is the hardest pitch on your elbow and shoulder, because you are throwing against your body and wrenching your arm the wrong way for the spin.  The circle change is better, has similar action, and acts like a reverse slider to a degree.\n\nHope all this helps... oh, and you may want to see how a knuckleball works for you (2- or 3-finger style).  If you can kill all the spin, you have a trick pitch that nobody can hit.  It got Tim Wakefield to the majors when he failed as a 1st baseman... and got Phil Niekro to the Hall of Fame... :)
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The simplest and most effective way to strengthen the right muscles for hitting is to swing something heavy every day.  If  you get a big heavy bat and swing it fifty or a hundred times while picking out something in front of you to swing through you can also work on leveling your swing, where your elbows are and all the fundamentals.  The most important things in hitting are bat speed and keeping your eye on the ball.  So practice what you do with  your head.\n\nWatch Mariano Riviera warm up and do that.  I have a cannonball that I pretend to throw and when I go to a game (I'm reduced to softball now) I throw much harder.  Get your arm warmed up and then work on strength with anything heavy you can keep in your hand.  It really works.\n\nStay off the juice.
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Take a bag of balls find a padded wall somwhere or sturdy fence. Start throwing  balls at it repeatedly. Start from 15 to 20 ft and toss lightly. Move back every little while. Keep throwing. I'm not kidding it sounds silly but I'm serious. Don't get fancy, just throw the ball. Like catch, as you get further you can throw a little harder but don't get crazy. But you'll see that as you go back you start throwing a bit harder involuntarily.\n\nYou'll do two things. Get your arm more durable, and work the muscles you'll use to throw which will increase velocity. Pitching is an unnatural motion you have to develop the muscles you use to throw which don't get used as often in normal circumstances. There's no easy fix. Throw, throw, and when you're done throw some more. Young pitchers don't just throw anymore.\n\nRemember Jim Morris the 35 year old Science teacher who'd had arm surgery and at 35 was throwing 98 MPH, and later pitched for the Devil Rays. How'd he do it? He was throwing batting practice to the kids he was coaching. Just throwing over and over.
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Are you talking about general health, or specific skills like throwing, hitting, etc. In general stamina is increased by repetitive tasks, so for stamina in running, try jogging longer distances daily. For arm stamina, throwing the ball using proper technique will increase your arm stamina (and possibly allow you to throw he ball faster/further). Same thing with hitting. Go to the batting cages, hit off a tee, just swing the bat - all will help. Just make sure that you are using proper technique or you can not only hurt your rhythm but cause some physical damage.
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im a bowler and i had it also.  it doesnt just affect your bowling either, i found it also hurt in things i did at home where your arm had to go in an upward motion.  \nit is tendonitis\nwhat i did totally stopped it and wasnt expensive\n\nat walmart there is an armband in the pharmacy section it has an air pillow in it (i cant remember what it is called) the band goes right below the elbow and the air cushion goes toward the outside of the arm and i wore it everytime i bowled and never had any more problems.\n\nit worked great\nhope this helps
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I am a sports trainer and you ice your arm after pitching because you are putting huge amouts of stress on your arm. The pitcher, unlike other players, is throwing many highspeed throws per batter whereas other fielders are through hard once or twice per batter. This shows that pitchers work much harder you ice your arm because if you did not then your muscle may tighten up and if you through more hard pitches with a tight muscle you greatly increase your chance of tearing or straining a muscle. By icing your arm you make it easier to throw more pitches in a shorter amount of time.
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Best Answer - Chosen By Voters\n\n1. Hide the ball in your glove. \n\n2. Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball. \n\n3. Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. (Image 1) \n\n4. Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. (Image 2) \n\n5. Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. (Image 3) \n\n6. Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. (Image 4) \n\n7. Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. (Image 5) \n\n8. Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up. \n\n9. Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.
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the best thing to do is a good warm up and a good warm down try putting some deep heat on before u play and to help u now get some freeze spray or cream to take away that pain. good luck
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This depends on a lot of things...  Do you have quick feet, quick release, strong arm, and are your pitcher holding the runner so that you even have a chance at throwing the runner out.\n\nThe first thing to work on is your arm strength. Make sure you are doing a lot of long toss. You can work with another catcher or pitcher. You can also do some tube work to work on overall strength for your arm and shoulder.\n\nMy favorite drill is the 1,2,3 Rapid Fire Drill. You will need a pitcher, 1st basemen, 2nd basemen, 3rd basemen.  Pitcher will need three balls and stand about 30 - 40 feet away. Pitcher throws first ball as you recieve first ball, drive your left knee downward and toward first base, rotate upper body to first base. Using a short snap throw, deiver the throw to firstbase.\n\nQuickly recover to receiving position... pitcher throws ball number two.  Throw to second base using a jump pivot, jab step, or rock and fire method.  \n\nQuickly recover to receiving position... pitcher throws third ball. Throw to third remmeber to work on a right footed drop step to clear right handed batters.\n\nDo this five or six times a practice.\n\nAnother good drill is "Quick Hands Drill"\nTwo catchers line up about 15-20 feet apart facing one another. The catcher receiving the throw gets into ready position with glove extended and throwing hand positioned behind the glove hand or against chest in a relaxed manner. \n\nYour partner initiates by throwing the ball. As the ball contacts the glove the throwing hand immediately covers the ball while the fingers find the seam.\n\nUsing "short" arm action, the ball is brought back under the chin while the front shoulder closes. Hands break, and the ball is brought straight back to the throwing position.  Without hesitating throw the ball back to the other catcher who has assumed the ready position. THis should be done about 15-20 throws each. DON'T USE YOUR FEET!  THIS IS JUST TO ISOLATE UPPERBODY THROWING MECHANICS.
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If it feels like a sharp catching pain, it might be a bone spur.  Sometimes those develop due to overuse or injury (my dad has one in a shoulder from an old high school football injury and my best friend had surgery on a shoulder spur after tripping and falling during a track hurdles practice).  They are common and don't always require surgery, but often can be fixed arthroscopically.  I would call your doc and ask them to refer you to a sports med orthopaedist.  I wouldn't ignore the injury, because although it might just be a strain, many pro baseball players (pitchers in particular) DO develop problems in their throwing arms (John Smoltz had to have Tommy John surgery on his).  If it is something like that developing and it goes untreated, it could eventually become bad enough that it prevents you from playing at all.  You lose nothing by going to the doc for a few x rays, and you may either gain peace of mind in hearing that it is a minor sprain or strain or get treatment for a developing problem that would otherwise leave you in constant pain if left over time.  GL and hope this helps you!\n\nBone spurs, also known as osteophytes, are bony projections that form along joints. Bone spurs form due to the body's increase of a damaged (usually due to arthritis) joint's surface area in a futile attempt to improve weight distribution. However, they usually limit joint movement and typically cause pain.\n\nBone spurs form naturally on the spine as a person ages and are a sign of degeneration in the spine. In this case the spurs are not the source of back pains, but instead a common symptom of the problem.\n\nSpurs can also appear on the feet, either along toes or the heel.\n\nHeberden's nodes are osteophytes at the DIP joint. Bouchard's nodes are osteophytes of the PIP joints.\n\nHere is another article on pitching injuries - it could be your technique!\n\nThe most common causes of pitching arm injuries to high school, college and professional pitchers are overload, overuse, lack of proper conditioning, and improper throwing mechanics. \nOverload is the result of throwing too many pitches during one outing. Maximum pitch counts for various age groups, or for an individual pitcher’s normal strength and stamina, are effective in preventing overload. \n\nOveruse is the result of pitching too often and not having an adequate recovery time or a good arm maintenance program (stretching, running, strengthening, throwing) between pitching assignments. Coaches and trainers should be aware that each individual pitcher varies in arm strength, arm fatigue, arm tightness and soreness and require different recovery time needs. Make certain you provide your pitcher with a good active recovery program between pitching assignments. \n\nProper conditioning involves the entire body; the legs and core muscles as well as the throwing arm. Coaches should supervise a proper stretching and warm-up procedure that is performed daily before throwing a ball. \n\nPre-season is one of the most frequent times for arm injuries. Pitchers throw too much and too hard, too early. Also, they have not ingrained their normal rhythm and often are attempting to learn new techniques or new pitches. \n\nAnother major factor of injury during pre-season is that pitchers are not working with a normal in-season rotation schedule and do not get enough recovery time from a lot of necessary drill work that involves throwing (pick-offs, defensive plays, etc.). \n\nImproper throwing mechanics. If a pitcher has improper throwing techniques, with the body or arm, there is a great chance of early fatigue of the throwing mechanism, and of course injury. The more power and force generated, the greater the chance of injury. \n\nIn a competitive situation, most pitchers will not admit they are fatigued, experiencing minor pain or have a minor injury. It is important that you, a coach, trainer or physical therapist be able to recognize changes in the pitcher’s
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First thing is first...look at your arm when you throw (The easiest way to do this is to video tape yourself and watch it). What you want to watch for is where your elbow is in comparison to your shoulder. If your elbow drops below your shoulder, that is why you elbow hurts. When you elbow drops below the shoulder, it puts undo stress on the ligaments and tendons there. What you want is for you elbow to be level or slightly higher than your shoulder, but it has to be comfortable for you. You don't want it way stretched out so it's twice as uncomfortable as before.\n\nAnother possibility is if you throw a curve, how do you throw it? Are you using your elbow? Which is hard on younger pitchers (The bones and cartilidge.). You want to be using your wrist for the rotation of the ball, not your elbow.
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Here you go, just follow these simple steps.\n\n1.Hide the ball in your glove.\n \n2.Grip the ball with your middle and index fingers perpendicular to the seams at their widest point, with your thumb underneath the ball.\n \n3. Spread your top fingers apart slightly and keep your ring finger and pinkie tucked into your palm. \n \n4. Hold the ball firmly, applying pressure with your middle finger and thumb. Try not to let the ball rest in the palm of your hand, and keep your index finger relaxed. \n \n5.Wind up into the pitch. Use the same pitching motion as in your other pitches so that the batter cannot predict a curveball. \n \n6.Keep your wrist relaxed. After drawing back the pitch, hold your wrist so that the back of your hand points toward your body. \n \n7.Roll your wrist downward and to the right (if you are right-handed) or to the left (if you're left-handed) immediately before releasing the pitch. \n \n8.Release the pitch and follow through by bending your wrist. A right-hander should finish with the palm facing in toward the chest. The top of your thumb should be facing up.\n \n9.Throw the ball between the batter and home plate if you're a left-handed pitcher facing a left-handed batter or if you're a right-handed pitcher facing a right-handed batter.\n \n \n\n \n \nTips:\nYou can also try gripping the ball between and along the seams. Spread your fingers apart slightly and press your middle finger into the ball. Go with the grip that allows you a comfortable release, the proper spin and maximum control.\n \nTurn your wrist further to increase the ball's spin. You will lose some control but will gain more curve. Throw harder, and the pitch gains speed but loses some of the curving movement.\n \n \nWarnings:\nThrowing a curveball can cause serious and possibly permanent damage to your shoulder, elbow and wrist. For this reason, most managers and coaches advise that young players avoid this pitch until they reach physical maturity.
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play catch without moving your feet, that will help give you better arm strenght........
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Solutions for tennis elbow.  Ice, ice, and ice.  Those tennis elbow things for the arm really help to.  When your stretching out you tennis elbow arm, stretch it, but not too far.  You should really rest for a couple of days.  Ice it even when it has stopped hurting.  If you don't, tennis elbow can come back quickly.  Find a couch, and talk to him.  There is probably something wrong with you form, and that is why you are hurting. For the racquet, i find the flexpoints are really easy on the arm.  It is mainly in the stings though.  Go on tennis warehouse and look at tennis elbow string.  They really make them.  Good luck.  Tennis elbow royaly stinks.
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If you are new to it or you havent played it in a while then its natural that your arm will turn red so juss keep practicing and get used to the ball hitting your arm because thats what its intended to do... sooner of later the redding of your arm will stop since youre used to it.
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R.I.C.E.\nRest: relative rest, avoid lifting any moderate to heavy weights with that arm\nIce: ice the Bicep for 15 minutes every hour\nCompression: wrap an ace wrap around the arm to control swelling\nElevation: elevate the arm above the heart level to control swelling\n\nSee your physician if it is a large tear.  You will need to rest and not play sports for a few weeks to allow it to heal.