muscle case study

Skeletal muscles are the organs of the muscular system and are made up of skeletal muscle tissue, nervous tissue, connective tissue and blood. The human body is approximately made up of 600 skeletal muscles. The basic functions of the skeletal muscles are to provide movement of the bones, maintain posture, and produce heat. Sometimes a muscle or a group of muscles can become injured due to overuse, the most common injury affecting baseball pitchers. Jason is a college pitcher who began to experience soreness of his right pitching arm. The twenty year old pitcher noticed a decline in duration as well as pitching abilities. The symptoms developed during the season are due to a decrease in conditioning and an increase of duration and intensity while in training season. Once Jason felt his conditioning was met, the main focus turned toward pitching alone. When the season began, the patient had already started to wear down the rotator cuff muscles by pitching entire games and using...