The major aspects determining the most prevalent injuries in baseball: A review

Abstract

The major intention of this study is to identify the major injuries that related to the baseball players. Twenty-seven articles related with common baseball injuries in game situation, player position, training period were used for this study. The most common upper body injuries are happened shoulder, head, hand, and lower body injuries are occurred in the knee, ankle, and upper leg. The pitchers are common with upper body injuries and knee and collision injuries are common with defensive players including catchers. Non-game injuries usually occurs when recurrent of the movement and game injuries occurs when contacting while playing. Most of injuries occur in season of baseball training due to the heavy workload with high intensity and high volume of training sessions. This study provides knowledge about the nature of injuries, injury identification, and treatments in order to avoid injuries for performance development.