Understanding Throwing-Related Injuries: The Clinical Application of Throwing Biomechanics

Overview

Throwing-related injuries are often influenced by the complex interaction of movement patterns and deficits throughout the kinetic chain that can increase stress on the shoulder and elbow. This course will explore how understanding throwing biomechanics helps clinicians identify the underlying contributors to injury, make more informed clinical decisions, optimize rehabilitation, and determine when an athlete can safely continue throwing, modify activity, or should temporarily stop throwing.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Define the key biomechanics involved in throwing motions and how they may impact loads on the shoulder and elbow.
2. Review specific injury mechanisms in the shoulder and elbow and how they relate to throwing.
3. Explore how throwing biomechanics influence injury risk.
4. Discuss Strategies for biomechanical driven injury risk reduction.
5. Explore intervention strategies that relate to throwing athletes; periodization, regional interdependence, sport specificity.
6. Understand and consider roles and contributions from primary care sport med, PT and other healthcare professionals in the case of throwing related injuries in athletes

About the Speaker

Brendan Saville, PT, MPT, MCLSc(AHCP), Sport Dip. 

Brendan Saville is a Registered Physiotherapist and Clinical Lead at Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, as well as the Lead Physiotherapist for Varsity Athletics at Fanshawe College. He has extensive experience working with athletes across multiple levels of competition, including professional and collegiate baseball players, as well as elite overhand throwing athletes such as javelin throwers. His clinical practice focuses on the assessment, rehabilitation, and performance optimization of athletes, with a particular interest in understanding how biomechanics, movement