- Jun 18, 2010
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DD injured her back during pitching practice Saturday. Her mom took her to the Sports Medicine MD on Monday. He had her do various push and pull type movements to determine the location of the injury. Based on his assessment no x-ray was required. He diagnosed a muscle strain in the middle to upper back on her left (glove hand side). I was listening in on wife’s speaker phone from work. We were working on her stride foot landing. She tends to land on a weak left side with her weight too far forward. She was trying to firm up the left side and keep her chin and chest back. She pitched much better coming into a firm left side and trying to get more of an arm whip action. She never complained of any injury during practice. It wasn’t until later in the evening when her back started to get stiff and the pain set in. We applied a heating pad and gave her some ibuprofen. Dr says to take a couple of weeks off then ease back into it. He also gave her a sheet of exercises to do to strengthen core etc…