LITTLE LEAGUE ELBOW

What is it?

• an overuse injury for adolescent (usually 9-15 years of age) baseball pitchers of the medial (inside) ligaments of the elbow, causing pain that progressively gets worse

How's it happen?

• too many pitches for a growing adolescent
• an overload to the medial (inside) of the elbow, where the ligaments start to pull away from the growth plate

What do you do about it?

• stop all throwing, ice, & anti-inflammatories 
• treatment, rehab, & return to throwing program (focused on correct mechanics and slow progression)
• if this is missed, it can be lead to another condition that causes poor blood supply and bony death & debris that gets caught in the elbow, called OSTEOCHONDRITIS DISSECANS

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