Quote Originally Posted by Commercecomet24 View Post
Right on, Todd! So many people think it just all of a sudden pops but that's not the way it works. It's like stretching a rubber band over and over and over til it finally snaps.
Yeah it's because you hear about Kirk Presley throwing 150 pitches in the state championship game in high school or something and then he has a UCL tear and then people point back to that one moment to explain it. Not that I would recommend throwing that many pitches but it's not likely that ONE game that did it.

A rubber band is a good way to put it. Ligaments don't have a ton of elasticity in them. And then in the elbow they're relatively small. But that's where a lot of the stress goes.