Author(s)

Machiko Hiramoto^1,2, Toru Morihara³, Tomoyuki Matsui^1,2, Yoshikazu Azuma¹, Kazuya Seo⁴, Tetsuya Miyazaki⁴, Toshiaki Eto⁵, Yuya Watanabe⁶, Takeshi Sukenari³, Yosuke Yamada⁷, Shuhei Morifusa¹, Noriyuki Kida²

¹Marutamachi Rehabilitation Clinic, Rakuwa Medical Sports Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan.
²Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan.
³Department of Orthopedics, Graduate School of Medical Science, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
⁴Rehabilitation Unit, University Hospital, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
⁵Department of Rehabilitation, Fushimi Okamoto Hospital, Kyoto, Japan.
⁶Faculty of Health and Sports Science, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
⁷Department of Nutritional Science, National Institute of Health and Nutrition, National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition, Tokyo, Japan.

The purpose of this study was to measure range of motion among professional women baseball players and to identify specific attributes through comparison against university men players. Subjects were 53 professional women baseball players (average age 21.9 ± 2.9 years) and 23 university men baseball players (19.8 ± 0.8 years). Measurement of shoulder external and internal rotation, neck and thoracolumbar rotation, hip internal and external rotation, SLR and HBD revealed sex differences and laterality. Women players had higher lower limb flexibility values compared with men, and like men, demonstrated laterality in range of motion in the limbs and trunk. Findings from this study may provide reference values that can be applied to women’s conditioning programs.

Range of Motion, Baseball, Women

Hiramoto, M. , Morihara, T. , Matsui, T. , Azuma, Y. , Seo, K. , Miyazaki, T. , Eto, T. , Watanabe, Y. , Sukenari, T. , Yamada, Y. , Morifusa, S. and Kida, N. (2017) Characteristics of Range of Motion among Women Pro Baseball Players: A Comparison with University Men. Advances in Physical Education, 7, 418-424. doi: 10.4236/ape.2017.74035.