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The Sports Medicine Clinic of Tampa, Florida
The Florida Orthopaedic Institute, Tampa, Florida
Presented at the 23rd annual meeting of the AOSSM, Sun Valley, Idaho, June 1997.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to William G. Carson, Jr., MD, The Sports Medicine Clinic of Tampa, 3006 West Azeele Street, Tampa, FL 33609
Twenty-three cases of Little Leaguer’s shoulder were reviewed including the history and physical examination findings, as well as bilateral internal and external rotation anteroposterior comparison radiographs of the proximal humerus. The average follow-up was 9.6 months (range, 1.5 to 54), and all patients were observed until they had either returned to baseball or their symptoms had resolved. The average age of the patients in this series was 14 years. The chief complaint in all patients was pain localizing to the proximal humerus during the act of throwing. The average duration of symptoms was 7.7 months. Nineteen patients (83%) were pitchers. Physical examination revealed tenderness to palpation over the proximal humerus in 20 patients (87%), with 16 (70%) demonstrating specific tenderness over the lateral aspect of the proximal humerus. Swelling, weakness, atrophy, and loss of motion were uncommon findings. All 23 patients demonstrated radiographic widening of the proximal humeral physis of the throwing arm on internal and external rotation comparison anteroposterior radiographs of the shoulder. All patients were treated with rest from baseball throwing for an average of 3 months. Twenty-one of the 23 patients (91%) returned to playing baseball and were asymptomatic. The classic radiographic finding of widening of the proximal humeral physis can easily be seen on bilateral anteroposterior internal and external rotation radiographs of the proximal humerus. Rest from throwing for at least 3 months is recommended, followed by a gradual return to throwing in an asymptomatic shoulder.
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