Methods:
In order to complete this forty‐eight male high school baseball players and seventeen female high school softball players were tested on the YBT‐UQ. Reach distances were normalized to arm length (% AL). Comparisons were made between the throwing (T) and non‐throwing (NT) arm for each direction as well as the composite score.
Results:
No significant differences were observed between the T and NT arm for the medial (NT: 98.4±8.6% AL, T: 99.1±8.6% AL, p= 0.42), inferolateral (NT: 90.8±11.8% AL, T: 90.3±11.5% AL, p= 0.61), superolateral (NT: 70.6±10.9% AL, T: 70.4±11.1% AL, p= 0.91) reaches, or the composite score (NT: 87.2±8.9% AL, T: 86.6±8.1% AL, p= 0.72). Similarly, no differences were observed between the male baseball and female softball players (p= 0.30‐0.90).
Conclusions:
Based on these findings, it was concluded that there was no difference in performance on the YBT‐UQ between throwing and non‐throwing limbs in high school baseball and softball players.
Level of Evidence:
3