Mitch Salsbery, PT, SCS: I started as a college baseball player, actually, a college catcher, 
and various shoulder and elbow injuries caused me to miss a lot of time and spend a lot of 
time in the training room rehabbing. After those injuries, I knew physical therapy was right 
for me, and being able to help baseball players has always been my life's passion.

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Mitch Salsbery, PT, SCS
Physical Therapist]

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The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center logo]

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Mitch Salsbery is seated wearing an Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center sports medicine polo]

At Ohio State, we have an upper extremity fellowship program that's in collaboration with the 
Cleveland Indians and Columbus Clippers.

Every year, the fellow will spend half of his day in the clinic 
treating patients in the Columbus community, and afterwards head down to the ballpark to work 
with the Clippers players.

[Video of a baseball player throwing a baseball to Mitch Salsbery] 

He'll have the experience of working spring training with the Cleveland Indians. So it's 
really an asset to the Columbus community to have that extra person here who has terrific 
experience in professional baseball. We have an unbelievable collaboration between physicians 
and physical therapists. Oftentimes, our physicians will walk patients directly up to us and 
hand them off.

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[Video of Mitch Salsbery performing physical therapy on a baseball player] 

We're always communicating back and forth to make sure that each athlete has the best care 
that they could have. 

The first thing with the injured athlete is you have to work through quality, research-based 
approach to their care. 

[Animation of a gray silhouette of a human figure posed as if it's about to throw a ball] 

You have to work through the pain management and just getting them back to daily things.

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Once we can get them back to daily things, then we progress into the true return to sport 
phases of the program, which is what we specialize in, taking them through motions that are 
very similar to what they're gonna do during sport. And then ultimately, ensuring that they do 
return to sport and guide them through that process on the field.

We have an availability here at the Jameson Crane Sports Medicine Institute to provide 
preventative care for throwing athletes. 

[Video of a baseball player throwing a baseball to Mitch Salsbery] 

That's gonna start with a physical screen similar to what you would find in major league 
baseball. After that physical screen, then we'll move into looking at throwing mechanics and 
ultimately full throwing analysis, including video analysis with a report and video provided 
to the athlete afterwards.

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[Video showing the recording process of the video analysis] 

That'll include a full video analysis, including corrective exercises to modify their 
mechanics in order to keep them as pain-free as possible.

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The Ohio State University 
Wexner Medical Center]