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Established in 2020 - Baseball Injury & Performance Initiative (Baseball IPI)

12/11/2022

Baseball is an international sport where more than 16 million athletes participate each year. As the competitive population has grown, so too has the number of injuries experienced at amateur, collegiate and professional levels of the game.

The Baseball Injury & Performance Initiative was created to enhance health and performance in the sport of baseball starting with the BIPI 10, a strength program that is free to all athletes and can be performed anywhere to improve strength, power, endurance, stability and motor control. BIPI 10 can be completed in 10 minutes per day, 5 days a week. Adaptations favour players aged 7-16 years of age.

In December, we will begin disseminating BIPI 10 to youth baseball organizations globally. In Spring 2023, we will begin offering workshops for youth teams in the Greater Toronto Area.

Stay curious. Stay strong.

16/06/2022

Thanks to and for preaching the good words with us: arm care, speed, power, athletic development… Thanks to for allowing us to educate these young players.

🎥 #1 - plyo ball perturbations at external rotation and ball release—post-throwing work, light fatigue, feeds the tissues by delivering oxygen and nutrients for recovery—and band work—preps the scapular and shoulder musculature for throwing.
🎥 #2 - 1/2 kneeling rotary starts: angled back knee creates a positive angle for horizontal force creation.
🎥 #3 - speed and plyo prep: lateral bounds with decel landing.

01/06/2022

BIPI is pairing up with and to showcase talent & educate players, parents, and coaches on arm care, speed development, and more.

Our journey to “minimize injury and maximize performance” is just beginning.

June 7th in Whitby (5-9 pm)
June 15th in Oakville (5-9 pm)

28/04/2022

Coming soon! The BIPI-10, a free strength program that can be performed anywhere to improve strength, power, endurance, stability and motor control... 10 sets per day (2 x 5 exercises) performed in under 10 minutes!

01/08/2021

PLEASE SHARE... Parents'/Caregivers' Survey Link:
> https://forms.gle/QoUhS18P3zaFKFi66
Players' Survey Link:
> https://forms.gle/ETR8b12wcWwJWTws7

Dear Parents and Players,

We are pleased to present you with an opportunity to contribute toward a significant baseball research initiative. Our intentions are solely academic and you will not be solicited for any sales or products. Your participation is completely voluntary. Parent/caregiver-survey and player-survey links are located above and can also be accessed through our website: https://www.baseballipi.org/

View our research video here: https://youtu.be/e9geJmXnzy4

Your responses are important to us. They will assist us in creating new strategies to reduce future injury in the sport of baseball. The first section in both surveys discusses potential risks and asks for informed consent prior to your voluntary participation. Note that the player survey also asks for consent of the parent/caregiver for participants under 18 years of age. Please email any questions you have before completing the survey: [email protected].

13/07/2021

"Who" is the Baseball Injury Prevention Initiative?

Ryan Crotin has a wealth of baseball experience being a coach either in skill or strength at all levels from youth to the Major Leagues. He completed his PhD at the University at Buffalo studying altered stride lengths and their movement and physiologic effects on baseball pitchers to model fatigue and compensation to impact throwing performance. His post-doctoral fellowship was at the University of Pennsylvania focusing on throwing health and he was part of a team that developed a throwing clinic for Penn Orthopedics. Ryan has held past positions of Director of Performance Integration and Player Performance Coordinator for the Los Angeles Angels overseeing strength and conditioning efforts and applying physiologic-based data to improve the way athletes train, receive clinical care and skill coaching as well as innovative approaches to in scouting athletes. In his free time, Ryan enjoys playing ping pong with his wife and chasing around his two sons who are his greatest joys in life.

12/07/2021

"Who" is the Baseball Injury Prevention Initiative?

Adam Balan is a co-founder of Baseball IPI. He has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of education, professional sport, and strength and conditioning. He is currently an Academic Coordinator and full-time Professor in the Fitness and Health Promotion diploma program at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. He completed his Master's degree studying parental attitudes towards arm injury prevention in youth baseball. He also holds two Bachelor's degrees in Education and Science from California University of Pennsylvania. His role as an educator is augmented by 12 years in the strength and conditioning world where he primarily worked with youth, collegiate and professional hockey and lacrosse players. As an athlete, Adam played professional baseball seasons in Europe and Australia and earned NCAA DII Academic All-American Honours in college.

His current academic pursuits lie in injury research, most notably with the Baseball Injury Prevention Initiative. He also works alongside his brother, Ryan, for the Balan Baseball Academy. Adam is an advocate of all movement; he loves dancing, air-drumming and playing with his 2-year old daughter.

29/06/2021

How do core and lumbopelvic stability contribute to arm health?

WHAT THE STUDY WAS ABOUT: For throwing motions, peak glenohumeral compressive forces and medial elbow stress are associated with stride length and lateral pelvic tilt just before ball release. This study investigated lumbopelvic control as a potential mechanism for arm injury in professional pitchers within a baseball season.

WHY THE STUDY IS IMPORTANT: Existing literature suggests that poor lumbopelvic control can reduce pitching performance. No research has examined if less lumbopelvic control will contribute to upper extremity injury.

KEY FINDINGS: Compared to non-injured pitchers, injured pitchers displayed significantly less lumbopelvic control during a single-leg balance test in both legs. Compromised lumbopelvic control increases injury risk.

What are you doing to improve your own (or your players’) core and lumbopelvic stability and control?

Reference: Laudner, K., Wong, R., Evans, D., & Meister, K. (2021). Lumbopelvic Control and the Development of Upper Extremity Injury in Professional Baseball Pitchers. American Journal of Sports Medicine (online).

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