European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1t m or health yes baseball parents Sale perfect pitching can be Learned by the new York times to baseball fans Dwight Gooden and Nolan Ryan May have quite different pitching styles but from an Ortho Peist s Point of View they Are doing essentially the same things. Now researchers studying the delivery of top major leagues have identified exactly what they do right and have devised a checklist for coaches and trainers to use to keep their pitchers on the Mound and out of the doctor s office. The researchers or. Joe p. Bramhall a team physician at Texas a amp a University and or. Charles Dillman a consultant to the american sports Medicine Institute videotaped the deliveries of 48 major league pitchers including Gooden Ryan Roger Clemmons and Dave Stewart. They took measurements off computerized videotape images Quot we were going to look at All these different styles to see How they can All throw so hard Quot Bramhall said. Quot but when we evaluated the biomechanics of pitching motion the critical Points a the Arm Angle the Elbow Angle the shoulder angles the balance a All the things on our checklist were remarkably similar although out there on the Mound they look like they re totally  the researchers who announced their results at a meeting of the american Academy of orthopaedic surgeons last month in Washington said the findings were important because of the Large number of injuries suffered by pitchers especially talented children who pitch too often at the insistence of ambitious coaches. Quot a Good Pitcher in Little league will be pitching and pitching from the time he s a kid Quot Bramhall said. Quot and hell end up with a bad Arm by the time he s 2g, even though he s Good because he s injured himself. We can to get people to Stop playing these kids so we want to work towards targeting these kids and getting them to learn Good mechanics right  while most injuries Only affect players while they pitch injuries can follow players off the Field for the rest of their lives. Shoulder muscle or rotator cuff injuries Are the most common although pitchers can also suffer from partly dislocated shoulders and Elbow pain. Quot these things have been known in Here s the pitch baseball circles for a Long time Quot Bramhall said. Quot what we be developed is a standardized Way for coaches trainers and therapists a people who have not been professional coaches for 20 years a to understand How to teach their  for coaches and trainers to use the checklist they will need to videotape their pitchers from three angles from Center Field Home plate and either first or third base. By using the videotape to Stop the action in mid pitch trainers can measure crucial features of the pitchers motion like the Angle of the Torso at the moment of release that Are otherwise impossible to measure accurately. Or. William Grana medical director of the Oklahoma Center for athletes in Oklahoma City cautions that the Ideal pitching style for a world class adult athlete May not be the same for a Young child and that overplaying May be a much More important cause of injury for Young players than incorrect style. Quot pitchers in the majors Are going to be throwing at 80 or 90 Miles an hour Quot he said. A no Little kid is going to throw the Ball that hard. Changes in mechanics should t be considered a replacement for resting a Little league player to keep him from getting injured Quot the checklist is available for $5 to cover postage and handling from or. , Bramhall 2713 Osier blvd., Bryan Texas 77801. Wind up Pitcher should be balanced at top of leg kick coiled and ready to Spring Forward. Stride length of stride should be slightly less than body height. Left foot right fool on a left handed Pitcher should step directly toward Home plate moving laterally six inches or less. Delivery backward rotation of shoulder should not exceed 165 to 160 degrees. Elbow should be flexed Between 70 and 115 degrees. Follow through smooth extended follow through motion decelerates the pitching Arm gradually. The throwing shoulder should be aligned Over the opposite knee after release of the Ball the Torso should be moderately flexed. / readers action line0ha Extension permitted for some a on  1, 1991.1 transferred to Fulda from the Stuttgart area because my unit was shut Down. While i was out processing i was told by finance not to worry about my overseas housing allowance. They said it would t be changed because my family would still be living in Economy quarters there. Well they Cut my Oha by almost half. My family terminated quarters in Stuttgart at the end of november 1991, but Fulda finance said i m Only authorized Oha at the Fulda rate for the two months my family stayed in Stuttgart my september 1991 Les leave and earnings statement says i was paid $666.80 for Oha but m Fulda they paid me $332 for october 1991 and $343 for the next month my duty station was Here in Fulda during that tune by my landlord did t lower my rent because i moved my rent was 1,620 Marks and what i was getting in Stuttgart usually fell a few Bucks Short of paying rent. Now i m about $600 Short. Sgt. Odale c. Sparkman Fulda Germany sgt. 1st class Michael Donohue staff finance no office of the Deputy chief of staff resource management Headquarters of Usa eur and 7th army replies the amount of overseas housing allowance paid is determined by among other things a soldiers permanent duty station ads. 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