{"id":295,"date":"2023-04-13T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/?p=295"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:15:50","slug":"spring-training-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/2023\/04\/13\/spring-training-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Training Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-295\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-295-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-295-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-295-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<h3>At this time of the year our sports pages are filled with news about our major league baseball heroes and the quite public drama of their trials, tribulations and injuries.<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-296 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/baseball.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"300\" \/>As they report to spring training they begin the steady progression of drills designed to prepare them for the rigors of a very long baseball season.\u00a0 Despite what is often year-round conditioning, injuries occur.\u00a0 Pitchers, for example, begin a very structured program of progressing toward an ever increasing number and intensity of pitches.\u00a0 During this process multiple problems can occur, particularly for those athletes who were nursing an injury through the off season or who may have had surgery.\u00a0 This is also a time when athletes are under extra stress to make the team and may push themselves harder than they should and not report symptoms to their athletic trainers and physicians.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways this is no different than what occurs with weekend warriors and others emerge from a winter of relative inactivity to clean up their yards and to begin recreational activities.\u00a0 Relative overuse occurs.\u00a0 Tendinitis and muscle strains are common.\u00a0 Muscles that have not been used much over the winter are suddenly called into ever greater activity.\u00a0 Such weekend warriors might not typically have progressed through such a structured program as one\u2019s professional idols.\u00a0 Preseason conditioning is just as important for this set of \"athletes\" as for the professionals.\u00a0 There are many similarities. \u00a0Rotator cuff tendinitis is common to both.\u00a0 Sometimes the weekend warriors and the backyard workers push themselves harder than they should just to get the job done, even though they don't have to officially \"make the team.\"\u00a0 Be wise.\u00a0 Listen to your body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time of the year our sports pages are filled with news about our major league baseball heroes and the quite public drama of their trials, tribulations and injuries. As they report to spring training they begin the steady progression of drills designed to prepare them for the rigors of a very long baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/testing.southerncrescentsolutions.net\/wvortho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}