Personal Reflective Essay: The Joy Of Pitching

Pitching is my dream; pain is my problem. For the past four seasons I have been unable to complete a full season without pain or injury. This began in the spring of my eighth grade year when I was informed that I had a stress fracture in my elbow caused by a result of pitching. This devastated me as I knew I would miss most of my season after working all offseason to get ready for the season. Luckily, I was able to come back with approximately a month to go in the season, however my velocity was down and it still hurt to throw. I was able to finish out the season, unfortunately I was significantly less effective after the injury. The next year would be my first year and high school and by far my healthiest year in the past four. Even with it being my healthiest year I was still having pain in my elbow but I was to able throw through it until I got to the point where I had to miss a couple …show more content…
From then on that year it seemed as though my arm was healthy and I was eager to move onto the varsity level the following year, that was until in January of this past year I threw a full court basketball pass and instantly felt pain in my shoulder. Two weeks went by and I still was unable to throw and I went to get it checked out. Originally the first thought was potentially a torn labrum (a potentially career ending injury) but luckily after further tests, and check ups it was determined that the pain was just a result of built up inflammation. This was a relief to me however it continued to worry me as I was still unable to throw come the first week of the season. The pain in my shoulder lasted the entire season and I was only able to throw three junior varsity innings all year. At this point with summer right around the corner I began to look online for help to fix my