NCT04713696

Core Stability for Baseball Batting in Adolescents

Using Functional Movement Patterns to Investigate the Impact of Core Stability on Hitting Mechanics and Bat Swing Velocity in High School Baseball Players

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: National Cheng-Kung University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Baseball batting is important to winning the games. Baseball batting is achieved by proximal-to-distal sequencing of body movements and controlled by the neuromuscular system. Poor lumbopelvic control could influence production and transfer of energy in the kinetic chain. This study aims to investigate the effects of functional movement training on hitting mechanics and bat swing velocity in high school baseball players.

Conditions

• Athletes
• Adolescent

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Functional training	Functional training refers to exercises that targets the muscles of the lumbopelvic-hip complex in order for them to more appropriately support and control the spine.
OTHER	Routine training	Routine training refers to general exercises that perform before and after practice, including jogging, stretching and strengthening exercises for upper and lower extremities

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-12
• Primary completion: 2023-07-01
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2021-01-19
• Last updated: 2021-01-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan