Every baseball season, players from major leagues to youth levels lose time because of injuries to the ulnar collateral ligament in their elbow. A University of Kansas researcher is co-author of a new study that used advanced technology to measure the thickness of baseball players’ UCLs, finding the ligaments were thicker in pitchers versus position players and that the common assumption of certain arm slots being less stressful on the elbow was not supported.
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