Polarized Racquets Arm Friendly?

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Compared To Standard "players" Racquets That Are Depolarized And Recommended For People With Elbow Shoulder Wrist Issues , What Do You Think About A Polarized Racquet For That Group Of Players?

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racquetresearch.com

There's a site called racquetresearch.com, which appears to be unattended these days, with lots of info about racquets and arm health. Most of the heavily polarized retail frames (Pure Drive, etc.) weren't out yet, I think. But you could plug in the specs from a heavily polarized racquet into the formulas on the site and find out.

One interesting page on the site has a Wilson Hammer racquet, which is very head heavy, polarized by the addition of a massive tailweight. The author calculates that this racquet is more arm healthy than any production racquet at the time.

The TW poster Travlerajm equated polarization with arm health, probably because polarizing a racquet is the most efficient way to increase recoil weight.

There's a good article over at USRSA, called 'Racquet Stability' from 1999. The author talks about Prince's 'Triple Threat' technology, which apparently was the industry's first concerted efforts toward polarization.

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rince Triple Braid
Triple Threat (Triple Braid)

A weighting system that promotes balance and stability with Triple Braid - woven titanium, copper and carbon that's placed in three critical racquet locations: 10 o'clock, 2 o'clock and in the bottom of the handle. Benefits include an expanded sweet spot with less shock to the arm.

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^^^ from teniiswarehouse racquet technology section . weight at 10- 2 and the buttcap is not really polarized unles you call being alittle higher than9-3 its "towards "polarization.

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Measurements taken by CRT Jeff Jewell of Tennis Warehouse
(strung, ungripped) Mass
(kg)
Balance
from butt end
(cm)
Swingweight measured on RDC
axis 10 cm from butt end
(kg.cm2)
Length
(inches)

Wilson Hammer 6.2 95 with a butt weight extension 0.394
28.58
390
28.00

Wilson Hammer 6.2 95 0.258
39.37
334
27.00

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Measurements taken by CRT Jeff Jewell of Tennis Warehouse
(strung, ungripped) Mass
(kg)
Balance
from butt end
(cm)
Swingweight measured on RDC
axis 10 cm from butt end
(kg.cm2)
Length
(inches)

Wilson Hammer 6.2 95 with a butt weight extension 0.394
28.58
390
28.00

Wilson Hammer 6.2 95 0.258
39.37
334
27.00

said another more readable way. weight 258 gm vs394 gms sw 334/390 balance28.5 vs 39.37

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so you have a very heavy racquet that is extremely polarized and arm friendly by thier calculations. that i guess answers my question . thanks