DR. DAMON H. PETTY, M.D.

2021 Church Street, Suite 610, Nashville, Tennessee

615-321-0200

Saturday, November 6th, 20108-11 AM at Showtime Sports

To register for this course, please go to:

www.pettyortho.com

and click on the link for the Baseball Coaches’ Clinic.

If you would like to speak with someone regarding the clinic, please call

Lee Ledbetter at615-785-4979.

Location of Coaches’ Clinic:

119 Seaboard Lane, Suite 402Franklin, TN 37067

(615) 373-1105

FOR INJURY

PREVENTIONAND

TREATMENT

High School and Middle SchoolBASEBALL COACHES’

CLINIC

DR. DAMON H. PETTY, M.D.

JOHN RIEDLING, former MLB Pitcher ; Pitching and Performance Specialist

CHRIS SPURLING, former MLB PitcherNAVERY MOORE, Vanderbilt University Pitcher

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There is a growing epidemic of preventable youth sports injuries that are dismantling k ids ' athlet ic hopes and dreams at an early age. In response, the STOP Sports Injuries campaign was created by a coalition of organizations and corporations to help prevent athletic overuse and trauma injuries in kids.

TYPES OF INJURIES IN ADOLESCENT BASEBALL PLAYERS

SILENT WARNING SIGNS OF OVERUSE INJURIES

PRE-SEASON EVALUATION OF THROWING: ROM and Strength, including core

MAINTENANCE OF THE THROWING ARM Pre-season In-SeasonCORE STRENGTHENING Its importance and whyRETURN TO THE MOUND - FOLLOWING UCL RECONSTRUCTION Navery Moore - Vanderbilt University Pitcher; former UCL patient with surgical repair. FOLLOWING SHOULDER SURGERY Chris Spurling - Former MLB Pitcher; surgical shoulder repairJOHN RIEDLING - Pitching Mechanics

Dr. Petty is offering this clinic free of charge.

COURSE CONTENT

“While some sports injuries are the unavoidable result of participation, many sports injuries are very preventable such as those that occur from overuse. The most common preventable injuries I see are with young baseball players, particularly between the ages of 10 and 16 years. These injuries simply occur from throwing too frequently.” - Dr. Damon H. Petty, M.D.

“I remember being with Dr. Andrews on his private plane flying back to Birmingham after covering a Washington Redskins game during my fellowship with him in 2001.   He was expressing concern over what he saw as an ever increasing number of sports injuries in young athletes requiring surgical repair, especially in baseball players.  He had some theories as to why the numbers were skyrocketing:  one was a change in the attitude of parents and coaches regarding sports participation by their children -- they were taking it much more

seriously; another was the year-round participation in the same sport, such as baseball, leaving no off-season for recovery.  He asked me to look into the baseball side of this and I did so.  We published an article a couple of years later on Ulnar Collateral Injuries in High School Baseball Players in the American Journal of Sports Medicine that drew attention to the ʻTommy Johnʼ injury and risk factors associated with it.”

-Dr. Damon H. Petty, M.D.