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Throw Like a Pro V.2.0 mobile app review
  1. Anuruddh Kumar Misra1,
  2. Rafael Escamilla2,3,
  3. Narendra Nath Trivedi4
  1. 1 Premise Health Hld, San Francisco, California, USA
  2. 2 Department of Physical Therapy, California State University, Sacramento, California, USA
  3. 3 Department of Physical Therapy, Results Physical Therapy and Training Center, Sacramento, California, USA
  4. 4 Engineering, Red Hat, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Anuruddh Kumar Misra, Premise Health Hld Corp, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA; akmisramd{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2017-098359

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    Name of the mobile application

    Throw Like a Pro V.2.0.

    Creator

    Abracadabra Health.

    Category of the mobile application

    Health and fitness (injury prevention).

    Platform

    iPhone/iPad: requires iOS V.7.0 or later, tested on iOS V.10.3.2; Android: requires 4.0 or later, tested on Android V.7.0.

    Cost

    iPhone/iPad: $9.99.

    In-App purchases:

    All Star Bundle $4.99.

    Throwers Ten $0.99.

    Cool Down Stretches $0.99.

    Dynamic Warmup $1.99.

    Advanced Throwers Ten $1.99.

    About the app

    The primary clinical focus of the app is injury prevention, closely followed by enhancing pitching performance via best rehabilitation practices (ie, stretches, warm-up, cool-down, improving core strength). It is an easy-to-use app for all involved in baseball, from players to parents, to coaches, to medical professionals. The app interface is user-friendly and has four main categories: Overview, Pre Season, In Season and About. The videos are instructive and consistent with the type of care a pitcher would receive in a sports medicine clinic and in real-time games as with a physical therapist and/or athletic trainer. While ‘Tommy John’ (ulnar collateral ligament) injuries are unlikely to ever totally be eliminated, the goal is its absolute minimization.

    Use in clinical practice

    The app tracks pitch …

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors AKM: primary author of the mobile app submission, doing the bulk of the app review and composing the content of the same; also brought in RE and NNT to this project for their specific expertise to enhance the value of the app review. RE: tailored the descriptive component of the video content from a clinical/physical therapist’s perspective and also cited references to explain/detail clinical relevance to the app. NNT: IT expert who helped test the app to ensure there were no failings from a technological standpoint and to review all online aspects of the app. These aspects are pertinent to one who may use the app, whose decision to attain it or not may be based just as much on IT aspects of it (if not more) as compared with its clinical usefulness.

    • Funding This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

    • Author note Regarding permission to use images, the two images are not from another publication but rather are from Google Images.