Triceps soreness ??

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Sep 19, 2018
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My daughter is 9. She started pitching this past spring. She has never had any sort of soreness at all. This Saturday I had her start doing the IR drills from the classroom thread. We worked for maybe 20 - 30 minutes.

Last night (Monday), we warmed up doing the IR drills then moved into full pitching. After not too long she started complaining of triceps pain. Not sharp, but dull like muscle soreness. She woke up this morning and the muscle does not hurt at rest, but hurts a little when massaging it.

I don't have any video and we are going to take some time off until the pain goes away. But any ideas on what mechanic might have caused this?

Thanks for any help.
cmn
 
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Nov 8, 2018
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My daughter is 9. She started pitching this past spring. She has never had any sort of soreness at all. This Saturday I had her start doing the IR drills from the classroom thread. We worked for maybe 20 - 30 minutes.

Last night (Monday), we warmed up doing the IR drills then moved into full pitching. After not too long she started complaining of triceps pain. Not sharp, but dull like muscle soreness. She woke up this morning and the muscle does not hurt at rest, but hurts a little when massaging it.

I don't have any video and we are going to take some time off until the pain goes away. But any ideas on what mechanic might have caused this?

Thanks for any help.
cmn

Only thing I can think of is look to see if she is straightening her arm , palm up at 9 o’clock. That would flex her tricep.


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May 24, 2013
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So Cal
Sounds a lot to me like she's using her muscles in a different way, and they are complaining a bit about the change. Muscles are whiny like that. Even in kids.
 
Sep 19, 2018
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Sounds a lot to me like she's using her muscles in a different way, and they are complaining a bit about the change. Muscles are whiny like that. Even in kids.

That is what I am hoping, for me personally that type of soreness comes from either

1) post workout - this was during
2) continuous high intensity - this was not that.
 
May 24, 2013
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That is what I am hoping, for me personally that type of soreness comes from either

1) post workout - this was during
2) continuous high intensity - this was not that.

You said that her first session with the new movements was Saturday. 2 days later, when she was doing those same movements again, she was feeling sore. Day 2 after the workout is often the worst for aches and pains. My DD can attest to that this morning from her leg-focused strength training workout on Monday - LOL. My experiences have been the same.

My guess (not a doctor, but we once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express for a travel tournament) is that the muscles and ligaments were stressed on Saturday, and not fully recovered on Monday. Putting that load on them again on Monday pushed the stress limits further.
 

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