Shadow pitching deviates ball release position: kinematic analysis in high school baseball pitchers

• Main Authors: Shigeaki Miyazaki (Author), Go Yamako (Author), Koji Totoribe (Author), Tomohisa Sekimoto (Author), Yuko Kadowaki (Author), Kurumi Tsuruta (Author), Etsuo Chosa (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Although shadow pitching, commonly called "towel drill," is recommended to improve the throwing motion for the rehabilitation of pitching disorders before the initiation of a throwing program aimed at returning to throwing using a ball, the motion differs from that of n...