- May 5, 2019
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In search of some needed help. My daughter who is 10 was a fairly dominant and consistent pitcher in the fall and is now struggling immensely. She has began to hit her elbow on the back part of her hip while pitching. She threw over 1500 pitches in games in the fall, and never had this happened. She has grown 3 inches since then and has lost all of her control and is very frustrated. I want to help her work through this, and I have padded her up in an effort to ease the pain. When we visited her instructor, she began to examine her arm circle saying that it had a lot of issues. She has always brushed her side while pitching, so my question is, with her current growth could it be that she is struggling because there is something in the way of the path her arm used to travel (1/2”-1” hip spread) so now she is striking herself? If this is the case do we really need to start from scratch examining her arm circle and l/or elbow bend? She has thrown speeds in the low 50’s before this occurred with typical game speed of 45 with good spin. I can post a video if someone lets me know how, it says all of my files are too large! Any input would be great, the only other thing I can offer is we have been bouncing between the 11” and 12” ball and the 35’ and 40’ distances and most of the hits to the hip seem to be occurring when she is throwing the 11” ball which is where she has almost all of her experience.
