Baseball Pitcher Injury
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
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🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Rick is a baseball pitcher that was injured while throwing five days ago. The patient describes a sharp shoulder pain felt during the deceleration phase of the pitch. Which of the following muscle groups is the MOST likely to be injured?
A. Subscapularis, teres major, latissimus dorsi
B. Infraspinatus, teres minor, latissimus dorsi
C. Infraspinatus, teres minor
D. Supraspinatus, posterior deltoid, rhomboids
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn, and you'll see the life |
| 0:22.4 | I have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to |
| 0:27.8 | change lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
| 0:50.8 | you love, you're in the right place. |
| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:55.8 | For this week's clinical file, we have Rick, and Rick is a baseball pitcher that was injured while throwing five days ago. |
| 1:01.2 | The patient describes a sharp shoulder pain felt during the deceleration phase of the pitch, |
| 1:06.9 | which of the following muscle groups is most likely to be injured. So we have A, sub-scapularis, |
| 1:13.4 | Terry's major and latissimus dorsi. B, infraspinatus, Terry's minor, and latissimus dorsi. C, |
| 1:22.0 | infrasinatus, teres minor. And D is superspinatus, posterior delto, and rhomboids. All right. So let's go up to the top of |
| 1:31.4 | this question right here. We have a baseball pitcher, and this one is going to be about that |
| 1:37.1 | deceleration phase of the pitch. You got to know this for the NPTE. They really like to ask |
| 1:43.6 | whether you're taking a practice exam, whether it's the NPTE. They really like to ask whether you're taking a practice exam, whether it's the |
| 1:46.1 | MPTE, they really get into that nitty-gritty musculoskeletal content when you have to know how |
| 1:53.3 | injuries occur and what are the muscles that get injured with those particular activities. |
| 2:00.0 | All right. And so this is a type of question that I want |
| 2:03.9 | you to be ready for because you may see it once, twice, maybe even three times on the test that you |
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