There is no doubt that awareness of the frequency of elbow ligament injuries has been elevated. In 2014, the attention-grabbing number of players undergoing Tommy John surgery -- and, perhaps more significantly, the star power names involved in recent years -- sounded an alarm in baseball that...
The left-hander has, at times, been among the most dominant starting pitchers in the game. A major reason he isn’t more decorated is injuries, particularly since 2019. Since then, he’s dealt with left elbow inflammation, Tommy John surgery, a right rib stress fracture, a broken wrist ...
Ohtani hasn't technically been a pitcher since he underwent Tommy John surgery last year. But 1) he's spent his rehab moonlighting as one of thebest hitters in baseball, 2) he's officially started throwing again and 3) please don't forget howawesome he wason the mound when he was healt...
The 21-year-old right-hander hasn't pitched since he needed Tommy John surgery off an elbow injury suffered in 2023 spring training. Painter is set to return to the mound this weekend in the Arizona Fall League. The Phillies intend to cap him at 20 innings and haven't decided how they...
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One type of surgery, ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction, is often performed on baseball pitchers. It’s commonly known as “Tommy John surgery,” after the baseball pitcher who initially had the procedure in 1974. This procedure takes a tendon from elsewhere in the body to replace the tend...
And Thomson has been careful in his usage with Dominguez, who is in his first full season back from Tommy John surgery. He pitched just 11 times on back-to-back days in the regular season and has had days off between all six of his postseason appearances -- at least two days in five...
In 1980, John Lennon denied Manson's ludicrous claim that the Beatles' lyrics were messages to him, saying: 'It has nothing to do with me. Manson was just an extreme version of the people who came up with the 'Paul is dead' thing' (the urban myth that, in 1966, McCartney had died...
John David Washington is the protagonist (but not, crucially, The Protagonist) inRogue Onedirector Gareth Edwards’The Creator, a thoughtful sci-fi blockbuster set in a near future where humanity finds itself at war with AI (*gasp*) – and itself. Here, Washington plays a conflicted US milit...
I was a pitcher in college and I threw my arm out in my junior year. I had to have Tommy John surgery which required an entire year of rehabilitation after the procedure. I met with a physical therapist three times a week and over the course of a long year we got my arm back in ...