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Wearable Technology for Baseball Pitchers Mike Reinold, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS
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Mike Reinold, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS
Wearable
Technology for
Baseball
Pitchers
No Disclosures
Reasons for Baseball Injuries
•Splitter?
•Curveball?
•Mechanics?
•Age?
•Size?
Only One Thing Continues
to Correlate to Injury
Overuse
Overuse Injuries
•Injured players:
–Pitch more months,
games, and pitches per
year
–Pitch more innings,
pitches, and warm-ups
per game
–Olsen AJSM ’06
–Fleisig AJSM ’11
–Register-Mahlick -Athl
Train ‘12
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Throwing a Baseball is not
Good For Your Body
300
Overuse Not Just Quantity
Overuse is Equation of
Quantity and Intensity
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Pitch Counts Alone are
Inherently Flawed
New Era of Wearable Tech
to Measure and Monitor
Workload
We Can Quantify
Motus Sleeve
•Wearable sensor
•Compression sleeve
•Small
–38x25x9mm
•Light
–6.9g
Motus Sleeve
• 3-axis gyroscope
• 3-axis accelerometer
•Bluetooth
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Motus Sleeve
•Metrics
–Throw count
–Throw intensity
–Workload
Motus Sleeve
•Advanced Metrics
–Arm speed (RPM)
–Arm slot
–Shoulder ER
–Valgus torque
Is it Valid and Reliable?
Reliability
•Reinold, Macrina, Fleisig, Andrews: In
press 2018
•ICC
–Velocity = 0.99 (ASMI = 0.96)
–Valgus stress = 0.99 (ASMI = 0.99)
–Angular velocity = 0.95 (ASMI = 0.93)
•Equally as reliable as full motion analysis
Workload Metrics
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Motus Sleeve
•Workload metric
equations
•Daily load
–throws x intensity
•Acute load
–7 day average
•Chronic load
–28 day average
•Acute:Chronic
Ratio
Acute:Chronic Ratio
Uses
Workload Monitoring
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Progressive Throwing
Programs
Preseason Throwing –Optimal Workload Progression
Preseason Throwing –Optimal Workload Progression
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Customized Velocity
Programs
Velocity Programs
•Both long toss and weighted balls effective
at enhancing velocity
•Both are equal to or greater stress than
pitching off the mound
•Need to be customized on your age, size,
mechanics, and goals
Velocity Programs
•Exact long toss distance
•Exact under-and over-load weighted ball
training
Rehabilitation Programs
Rehabilitation Programs
•Traditional program adjusts volume and
frequency
–Reinold: JOSPT ‘02
•Can now adjust for intensity
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The Ability to Monitor Stress
and Workload is Exciting
Better Understand of The
Force of Throwing in Real Time
But it’s Really More than
Peak Stress, it’s Workloads
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Thank You!
