Modality-specific improvements in sensory processing among baseball players

Improvements in Shoulder Endurance Following a Baseball-Specific Strengthening Program in High School Baseball Players

BACKGROUND The posterior shoulder muscles play key roles in maintaining shoulder function in throwing. Arm fatigue has been identified as a risk factor for shoulder and elbow pain in youth baseball pitchers. However, endurance of the posterior shoulder muscles in overhead athletes is not routinely examined or conditioned. HYPOTHESIS Upper extremity muscular endurance can be improved in adoles...

Achievement-goal Profiles among Elite Baseball Players

Skill-Specific Changes in Somatosensory Nogo Potentials in Baseball Players

Athletic training is known to induce neuroplastic alterations in specific somatosensory circuits, which are reflected by changes in somatosensory evoked potentials and event-related potentials. The aim of this study was to clarify whether specific athletic training also affects somatosensory Nogo potentials related to the inhibition of movements. The Nogo potentials were recorded at nine cortic...

Assessment of Physiological Parameters among Different Level of Baseball Players

Physiology is the study of functions of the human body. It is closely linked with the study of all living things in the subject of biology with the chemical reactions and behavior of cells under different conditions in biochemistry and with physics in the study of the physical reactions and movements taking place in the body. The present study was examined to determine assessment of physiologic...

Superstitious Behavior Among American and Japanese Professional Baseball Players

We examined the use of superstitious behavior by major league baseball players in the United States and Japan. The majority of professional players in both countries reported using superstitiousbehaviorsbut expressed little confidence that thebehavioractuallyaffectedoutcomes.Consistent with the uncertainty hypothesis, the more players believed luck affected outcomes during the game, the more th...