The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top Pitchers

Re:The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top ... by gibspaulding on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:55AM (#37611387)

Does anyone know of any studies on the long term health of children who go through programs like this? I see this sentiment a lot, and can even think of annecdotes of people this describes in my own life, but haven't seen much attempt at quantifying it.

A quick search is just showing studies on sports participation and children's health while they are still children (which seems to be resoundingly positive).

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Re:The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top ... by cornholio on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:06AM (#37611505)

I don't know how you would even approach that due to the huge selection bias.

Any kind of relevant metric, such as future injury of health, academic success in a non-sports-scolarship program, future propensity to crime etc etc. are strongly influenced if you simply are the kind of person that is likely to enroll into sports.

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