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Baseball's spring training is a traditional sign that the boys of summer will be bringing warmer weather and hopes of a pennant to Milwaukee baseball fans hungry for both.
 Yet among the traditions of spring, something new is happening at the Milwaukee Brewers' camp: the first time use of motion analysis for major league pitchers. Starting pitchers Yovani Gallardo, Dave Bush, and Doug Davis through motion analysis in batting cage turned laboratory at Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix, Arizona.
William Raasch, MD, an orthopedic surgeon at Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, established a motion analysis lab at the Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Center. Dr. Raasch has done a number of studies with this new technology and has done analysis for the last five years on minor league players. The Brewers are the first major league team to use this technology.
A team from the Sports Medicine Center set up portable motion analysis unit at Brewers' spring training complex. The batting cage has has a roof and tarps to create a dark, enclosed area. The dark area is required for using infrared scans in one lane throwing lane. The pitchers are strapped with sensors for 10-pitch throwing session; 40 individual measurements in each pitchers' delivery are used to identify potential areas of injury risk. Read more on the Milwaukee Brewers' Web site.
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