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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
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Comeback To A Pre-injury Level Disappointing For Professional Baseball Players (Mar. 9, 2008) — Only forty-five percent of baseball players were able to return to the game at the same or higher level after shoulder or elbow surgery. Researchers found that overall, only 20 of the 44 players ...
Your right Chuck it's really not a surgery on the shoulder but not really a surgery on the elbow with the forearm tendon split and figure of 8 tendon wrap until the vascular supply takes hold. It's really kinda in no mans land below the shoulder and above the elbow but the point I thought the article or reviews were making were 1) It's done on an awful lot of kids and maybe too many and 2) One of your articles seems to imply that alot of kids never get back to where they were as pitchers strength and velocity wise.
With the recent decline if the Red Sox baseball is tough for me to stomach....they looked absolutely putrid against Texas.