Have you injured your arm ? How did you do it ?

Yes,
well it was actually 2 broken fingers and 1 dislocated thumb,and it did come from baseball.A guys backswing caught my throwing hand

I strained my rotator cuff long tossing.

I never really got a clear answer on what I did but they called it mostly just overuse and strain. I had to do physical therapy for awhile and then take it really easy until my arm was back to good strength.

I was 36 years old trying to prove to my son (then 6) that I had a cannon for an arm.. threw a rock across a river and heard and felt an immediate pop.

I hadn't picked up a ball in 15 years. How dumb.

Son is now 16 and he has the cannon arm I once did. I'm still trying to convince him of that.

BUM I did the samething at a minor league game. They had a radar gun set up and the pain was immediate. I wreched my rotator for 5 years. Couldn't lift my arm shoulder height. I was about 40 YO and learned my lesson.

My son is currently under an ortho doctor's care with an unspecified shoulder injury (we get the results of the MRI with contrast dye this afternoon). Question: Provided that the body is properly warmed up, etc., does long tossing with weighted balls cause harm to the shoulder?

He's been out of commission since the beginning of April with physical therapy, which has been unresponsive, and it has been a real drag. He just completed his all-important junior year in high school, and it's a good thing he scored well on the ACT and SAT!

Yikes long tossing with weighted balls...not sure if that sounds too safe. How much heavier are they. I'd think it would do some kind of damage and probably throw off throwing mechanics would can cause injury. I'd be real careful with that.

TPBulldogs35:

Oops, I may have spoken incorrectly....I know he has THROWN with weighted balls, I don't know if it was LONG TOSS. I'm thinking "Yikes" in either case, at this point...