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Does Icing Your Shoulder Still Work for Baseball Pitchers? - #AMR392
Pitchers are constantly looking for the best way to recover after a long outing. Walk into any training room, and you will hear the hum of massage guns and see guys strapped to ice machines. We're seeing newer things too, like ESTIM machines and even BFR after an outing. We know pitching causes microtrauma and neuromuscular fatigue. The debate over how to properly manage that fatigue never seems to stop.
A recent study finally put percussive massage and traditional ice therapy head to head. Researchers had collegiate pitchers throw 75 pitches and then gave them either a targeted massage gun…
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