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Baseball pitchers initiate a forceful stretch of the shoulder flexors and horizontal adductors immediately before throwing the ball. The stretch reflex.

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1 Baseball pitchers initiate a forceful stretch of the shoulder flexors and horizontal adductors immediately before throwing the ball. The stretch reflex then contributes to forceful tension development in these muscles. Donald Miralle/Getty Images. Source: The Biomechanics of Human Skeletal Muscle, Basic Biomechanics, 7e Citation: Hall SJ. Basic Biomechanics, 7e; 2015 Available at: Accessed: October 14, 2017 Copyright © 2017 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved


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