The Importance Of Injury In Baseball
Healing the Injuries that Happen in Baseball For baseball players it is essential to stay healthy. One of the many reasons is that if a player is hurt for too long a period, he may lose his starting position. Though this is always in the forefront of a players mind, the first thing he should think about is healing his body so that he might continue his career. The most common injury to baseball players is tennis elbow and tennis elbow is only treated by having Tommy John’s surgery, which takes months of recovery. Baseball players also have to deal with the problem of dislocated joints and broken bones. Though baseball may seem like a less injury prone sport than soccer or football in can have just as big of an impact on the players life.
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The reason the shoulder becomes dislocated is because the way that players throw. The repetitive motion of the shoulder being jerked in one direction or the other can begin to irritate the ligaments in the shoulder and also irritate the shoulder joint itself (orthoinfo.aaos.org). This can lead to the shoulder being jerked in the wrong direction during a throw which would cause dislocation. Though dislocation of the shoulder is bad enough, players also often suffer from glenoid labrum tears or shoulder joint tears. GLTs are a result of some of the motions of throwing. There are several ways that this is treated the most aggressive of these is having rotator-cuff surgery. The rehabilitation time after surgery is four to five months of total time before a player is back to full …show more content…
There are a few types of broken bones that usually occur is baseball players. The first of these is the stable fracture, this is where the broken ends of the bone line up and are barely out of place. Compound fractures are where the skin may be pierced by the bone or by a blow that breaks the skin at the time of the fracture and the bone may or may not be visible in the wound (orthoinfo.aaos.org). The worst fracture for baseball players is the comminuted fracture. This is where the bone is shattered in three or more pieces. The way that broken bones are treated is by immobilizing the bone by casts, braces, external fixation, or internal fixation. The time it takes to heal broken bones depends on the type of and extent of the
The reason the shoulder becomes dislocated is because the way that players throw. The repetitive motion of the shoulder being jerked in one direction or the other can begin to irritate the ligaments in the shoulder and also irritate the shoulder joint itself (orthoinfo.aaos.org). This can lead to the shoulder being jerked in the wrong direction during a throw which would cause dislocation. Though dislocation of the shoulder is bad enough, players also often suffer from glenoid labrum tears or shoulder joint tears. GLTs are a result of some of the motions of throwing. There are several ways that this is treated the most aggressive of these is having rotator-cuff surgery. The rehabilitation time after surgery is four to five months of total time before a player is back to full …show more content…
There are a few types of broken bones that usually occur is baseball players. The first of these is the stable fracture, this is where the broken ends of the bone line up and are barely out of place. Compound fractures are where the skin may be pierced by the bone or by a blow that breaks the skin at the time of the fracture and the bone may or may not be visible in the wound (orthoinfo.aaos.org). The worst fracture for baseball players is the comminuted fracture. This is where the bone is shattered in three or more pieces. The way that broken bones are treated is by immobilizing the bone by casts, braces, external fixation, or internal fixation. The time it takes to heal broken bones depends on the type of and extent of the