Arm care
Most arm care is a list of band exercises somebody found online and handed to a whole team. We start with a movement assessment from a physical therapist, and what that assessment finds is what your athlete does.
The assessment
Every athlete gets a full movement assessment from a physical therapist before they are handed a program. Shoulder and hip range of motion, what moves and what does not, and where the arm is being asked to make up for something else. Two pitchers with the same sore elbow can need opposite things, and you cannot tell which is which by watching them throw.
The program
The assessment turns into a plan your athlete actually follows, on their phone, with their coach able to see whether it is getting done. It changes as they change, because a program written in September for a pitcher who has since grown four inches is not their program any more.
Throwing load
Bands are the small half. The larger half is the throwing itself: how much, how hard, and how the weeks are built around the season they are actually in. Every PPL athlete is on a phase based throwing program rather than a fixed weekly number, so the volume moves with where they are.
Who does it
The assessment is run by a physical therapist from Renewed Performance, who bill for it directly on their own system. It never appears on a PPL invoice. We build the training around what they find.
Questions parents ask
Yes. A physical therapist assesses every athlete and that assessment is what the arm care program is written from, rather than a generic routine handed to everybody.
Shoulder and hip range of motion, what moves well and what does not, and where the arm is compensating for something further down the chain. It is a full medical assessment, not a quick look.
It is a piece of it. The bigger piece is how much he throws and how the weeks are built, which is why every athlete here is on a phase based throwing program instead of a fixed number of pitches a week.
Book a free assessment at any of the three facilities. It costs nothing, there is nothing to buy on the day, and you will leave knowing what we would change first.
Thirty minutes, no cost, no card. We watch your pitcher throw, tell you what we see, and you decide what happens next.
Book the free assessment