Limiting Pitch Count Reduces Elbow Injuries in Young Pitchers.

Limiting pitch count in youth baseball pitchers resulted in decreased elbow injuries, according to a paper that was presented by Tetsuya Matsuura, MD, a professor in the Department of Orthopaedics at Tokushima University in Japan, as part of the Annual Meeting Virtual Experience. With the incidence of elbow injuries increasing, pitch limits have been implemented in various countries to prevent throwing injuries. [Extracted from the article]