Take a Deeper Look at Your Pitching Mechanics with BioPitch
Every pitch happens fast. But within that brief movement, your entire body works together to generate the force needed to get the ball across the plate. Even small differences in your movement patterns can have an influence. This is one reason why Complete Game Physical Therapy offers BioPitch in North Chelmsford, MA. This cutting-edge motion analysis service helps baseball pitchers understand how they move, and every pitcher will leave with an individual exercise plan.
What Is BioPitch?
BioPitch is a specialized biomechanical analysis created specifically for baseball pitchers. Unlike a general movement assessment, it evaluates the complex sequence of movements involved in pitching.
The pitching motion involves several distinct phases, from the windup and stride through arm acceleration, ball release, deceleration, and follow-through. BioPitch allows our team to examine what’s happening throughout these phases and evaluate how different areas of your body contribute to your delivery.
Rather than relying solely on what the eye can see, this technology provides measurable information about pitching mechanics. Our team can then combine these findings with a physical assessment and your individual history, goals, and performance needs.
What Can Pitchers Gain From BioPitch?
BioPitch looks beyond the pitching motion alone. Every assessment includes a 3D analysis of both fundamental movement patterns and pitching mechanics, helping your physical therapist understand how your body moves during basic movements and how those patterns carry over to your delivery.
Your physical therapist then interprets the findings alongside your physical assessment, throwing history, workload, symptoms, and goals. Based on the assessment, you will receive individualized corrective exercises tailored to address your specific movement and performance needs.
Some key benefits include:
- 3D Movement Analysis: Assess fundamental movement patterns to identify areas of strength and opportunities to improve mobility, stability, strength, or movement control.
- Detailed Pitching Analysis: Gain objective information about what happens throughout your delivery.
- Individualized Corrective Exercises: Receive exercises selected specifically to address findings from your movement and pitching analysis.
- Better Understanding of Mechanics: Learn how different parts of your body contribute to the pitching motion.
- Performance-Focused Training: Use measurable findings to help guide work toward your pitching goals.
- Return-to-Pitching Insight: BioPitch may provide useful information as part of a broader return-to-sport assessment when appropriate.
- Progress Tracking: Objective measurements can help your team evaluate changes over time.
What Should You Expect From Your BioPitch Assessment?
Your Complete Game Physical Therapy team will start by learning about your pitching background, current training, injury history, concerns, and goals. Depending on your needs, we may also assess factors such as strength, mobility, balance, and movement control.
During the BioPitch portion of your assessment, you will throw pitches while specialized 3D motion analysis technology tracks your movement. The system captures your pitching motion in three dimensions, allowing us to examine movements that can be difficult to evaluate accurately with the eye alone.
Once the pitching analysis is complete, your physical therapist will help make sense of the information. We’ll explain what the findings mean for you as a pitcher and identify areas that may benefit from additional strength, mobility, movement, or performance training.
This information can then help guide an individualized plan to improve your physical capacity, refine your training, or support a safe progression back to pitching.
Bring More Information to the Mound
Pitching is one of the most demanding movements in sports. You put in the work to develop your game, and your training should be based on more than guesswork.
BioPitch gives you and the Complete Game Physical Therapy team objective information about your pitching mechanics so you can better understand your movement and make informed decisions about what comes next.
