This is a guest post from Dr. James H. Buffi, Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering. It is impossible to overstate how excited I am to have Dr. Buffi contribute to our blog in what will be the first article in a three-part series on the biomechanics of pitching. In 2014, Dr. Buffi had a paper published title Computing Muscle, Ligament, and Osseous Contributions to the Elbow Varus Moment During Baseball Pitching (pubmed) which absolutely stunned me with the new methodology he had taken. Prior to that, Dr. Buffi had presented a conference paper titled Effect of Forearm Posture on the Elbow Varus Torque Generated by the Flexor Pronator Muscles: Implications for the Ulnar Collateral Ligament (pdf) which has been quoted on this blog and on my Twitter feed many times. Dr. Buffi reached out to me not long ago and we had a great conversation where we discussed where we thought the future of baseball training would be going and where it needed to improve to make serious dents on the rash of elbow injuries that all pitchers are dealing with, from Little League to MLB. It is my pleasure to provide a platform for Dr. Buffi to present his views and to announce that he will be working with Driveline Baseball in the future in some capacity! —— Challenges with Typical Biomechanical Analyses of Pitching Have we found the Tommy John solution? Is this the sleeve that could save baseball? These are the questions being posed by baseball enthusiasts as the company Motus Global markets a compression sleeve that pitchers can wear to monitor and manage the workloads on their pitching elbows. I have played baseball since I first learned to walk. I am a fanatic about the sport in every sense […]
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