Submit your orthopedic questions!
by supermarioelia on May 11, 2009 6:49 PM EDT
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I debated making this a FanPost or not, but realistically I could poop on my monitor and be of higher quality than the most recent stuff on the right-upper-portion of the page.
Anyways, here's my proposition to you guys. I have just begun my only foray into sports medicine, and will be attending clinics with different orthopedic surgeons all week, and only this week. If anyone's got any burning sports medicine questions that they want an answer to, let's hear it. No Adam Miller stuff though, I already gave that a shot with the plastic surgeons. I know personally I want some opinions on how aggressive guys are being with Tommy John surgery.
Fire away.
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No questions here, Mario, but I’ll give you a free rec if that header typo was intentional. :)
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by vbc3 on May 11, 2009 9:11 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
You gadang sumbit!
Sometimes, I just like to b****.
by emd2k3 on May 11, 2009 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I wish it was….I wish it was.
by supermarioelia on May 11, 2009 10:40 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
What is this rash on my feet? It’s going on 6 days, it came on after eating werid import prepackaged curry and it’s not athlete’s foot. Do I have to go to a doctor? It’s just red. It doesn’t really itch.
by afh4 on May 11, 2009 10:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The heartbreak of psoraisis.
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by vbc3 on May 11, 2009 10:39 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You know what that rash is?
Failure.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 11, 2009 10:56 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Lupis.
I'm not really into Song of Hiawatha.
by sarcasmdave on May 11, 2009 11:25 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
It’s never lupus.
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by vbc3 on May 11, 2009 11:34 PM EDT up reply actions 3 recs
Winning comment. You idiots!
Though I look right at home, I still feel like an exile
by Manhattan Tribe Fan on May 11, 2009 11:59 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Joking aside I had this on my left foot and a doctor just gave me some cream and sad my feet sweat too much.
Case of the beet bandit. Missing beets from all over the farm, no footprints. Inside job. Mose in socks. Boom. Case closed. -Dwight Schrute
by mjschaefer on May 12, 2009 1:48 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
lucky. i’m stuck with one foot on each leg and just blend in with everyone else. it must be nice to stand out in a crowd.
by Brick. on May 12, 2009 9:55 AM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
Hm, not sure if this is supposed to be Indians specific or what. But heregoes:
If you tear a tendon in your foot and do a bad job rehabbing, are you stuck? Or should you just go back to the exercises you were supposed to do for rehab and hope it strengthens up?
by joeee on May 12, 2009 2:07 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
This post needs some legal boilerplate.
by dgcambridge on May 12, 2009 9:36 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
i would like to know if they understand the “travis hafner shoulder strength percentage scale”
by Brick. on May 12, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Here’s a real question, but maybe it’s simple enough that anybody can answer it.
A tennis serve is a lot like a throwing motion (more or less). Tennis players play every single day (or every other day for the majors) and can easily crack 100 serves per match. And instead of just throwing a ball, they’re whipping a racquet around. And they don’t get to do a wind-up.
So how come you never hear about tennis players needing Tommy John surgery? It seems like they would tear through their shoulders in weeks.
by Chemo on May 12, 2009 10:27 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs
Just a layman chiming in here, but the Tommy John procedure involves a ligament transplant to the elbow, not the shoulder. I think elbow injuries (e.g. “tennis elbow”) are fairly common with tennis players.
by millionairesrow on May 12, 2009 10:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I tore my rotator cuff pitching, and re-injured it serving in tennis. I don’t follow tennis injuries very closely, but I am guessing it happens
by Roger Dorn on May 12, 2009 11:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think the point Chemo’s making is that pitchers, basically, ALWAYS get injured, and it’s not always as quick or as certain with tennis players. I know nothing about medicine but here goes:
Tennis rackets are what, 1.5-2 feet long? So add that to the length of your arm, and you now have some serious torque. Torque that pitchers don’t have. Add on top of that the lighter ball (lighter objects get slowed down more by drag, but also can accelerate faster, so you have to strike a balance – think golf ball versus feather). PItchers have a heavier ball, smaller torque arm, and, possibly, the arm action required for curveballs/sliders – this spells out a recipe for some pain.
by joeee on May 12, 2009 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Adam Miller is the new Steve Dalkowski.
by ShawnK on May 14, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Why would Manny Ramirez take steroids? I mean, if you’re a pure hitter like Manny, and have a perfect eye and perfect plate discipline like Bonds, why take drugs? We all say that plate discipline is the deciding factor. Manny has that. Would he just lose batspeed? Or would his line-drive-spraying power start to wane without it? Do the steroids cover up a problem in his offensive game? Can he not keep up the muscle without it? Lotta questions, sorry.
by joeee on May 12, 2009 12:49 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs
The main positive effect of “steroids” as I understand it is on endurance and recovery. It can help a player endure over the 162 games played in 182 days, bouncing back from each long day to be at full strength the next day. It obviously came to prominence as a weight-training aid, with better recovery between workouts enabling a far more aggressive training regimen.
Generally speaking, players in their 30’s have used steroids to maintain their level of performance from their 20’s, mostly by maintaining their bodies’ ability to bounce back and hold up for six months. Look at it this way: If there was an off-day in between every game, more like the NBA schedule, then the difference between a clean 35-year-old and a clean 25-year-old would be a lot smaller. The use of steroids can have a similar effect.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 12, 2009 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Interesting remarks. Do you know anything about steroid use in the NFL? I find it hard to believe that all those guys are monsters the “natural” way. And their bodies are subjected to tremendous, daily abuse – unlike a more “natural” sport like basketball.
by joeee on May 12, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The only reasonable supposition is that almost every NFL player is doping.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 12, 2009 2:25 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yet you never hear anyone complain about the “Steriod Era” of the NFL. I think biggest reason for that is because most of the steriod use in the NFL is probably by lineman and linebackers, not by the so-called skill position players, and they don’t have stats or set records. If a running back or quarterback would break the all-time rushing or passing records and was found to be on steroids I’m sure the public would be outraged, but since offensive and defensive lineman don’t really have any records to break then they’re not ruining the “sanctity” of the game. To most fans, those players are nameless, faceless people who aren’t important thus they don’t care if they’re using steroids.
But when a baseball player who breaks the all-time home run record is thought to be using steroids the public gets outraged. How dare that player mess with the hallowed records of the game! I think that’s a big difference — baseball is built on its history and stats, and fans don’t want players cheating to tarnish those stats. In football, if you’re not a QB, RB, or WR, then fans don’t care what you do to your body.
by Buckeye Brad on May 12, 2009 2:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
There is every reason to think that most if not all of the skill players are juicing, too.
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 12, 2009 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is NFL testing unsophisticated/half-hearted? Or are NFL players masterfully clever juicers? Where is the disconnect?
by joeee on May 12, 2009 3:19 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Half-hearted. No one really cares all that much either
by Roger Dorn on May 12, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t know, as westbrook said below I’m not sure how much steroids would help quarterbacks, perfomance-wise. Accuracy and decision-making is more important to that position than pure strength. I don’t think they’d help wide receivers much, either. Running backs, though, could definately benefit from getting stronger through steroid use. Of course, football players at any position may be taking steroids to help them recover from injuries more quickly.
by Buckeye Brad on May 12, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I think steroids just help everyone do everything. Of course you can lift yourself out of a position, but that’s just one conception of steroid use. Remember: some of the most tested, notorious abusers on the planet are skinny-as-rail cyclists.
by joeee on May 12, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yea, I think Jay’s stance is that steroids are best used for reducing recovery periods, and I can’t think of a sport that would benefit an athlete more from reducing the amount of time until they are physically capable again
by Roger Dorn on May 12, 2009 4:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’re right, anyone in football can be using steroids. My original point remains, though, which is that fans aren’t as upset about football players using steroids because they’re not breaking any hallowed records. Football doesn’t have many hallowed records — maybe career rushing, passing, and receiving yards, but I’ll be the average fan doesn’t know who holds those records, and if they do then they certainly don’t know the number.
But every baseball fans knows 755 and 6, and considers those records sacred, and if a player who is assumed to be on steroids threatens or breaks those records then they’re upset that the player is ruining the hallowed tradition of the game. Baseball is all about tradition, much more so than football, and the retired great players are revered as heroes (even if they were greatly flawed people in real life) by most fans. That’s why their upset about the steroids in baseball now ruining the “integrity of the game”.
It’s a double standard and it’s laughable that the NFL is getting a free pass in all this public outrage. I wonder what will happen if Shawn Merriman, who failed a drug test, threatens to break the single-season sack record. Will there be public outrage about that? Will he be destroying the integrity of football? I doubt it.
by Buckeye Brad on May 13, 2009 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
6?
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
by Jay on May 13, 2009 11:42 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Clearly a reference to the modern record for HR allowed in a game (Dickey and Wakefield, among others). Right? Six is also the record for most singles in a 9 inning game and most runs scored in a game, which are seemingly less likely to be threatened by the scourge of chemical enhancements.
by FredOx on May 13, 2009 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yeah, that’s what I meant — the hallowed singles record. Who doesn’t know that one?
Obviously I meant 61, just a typo.
by Buckeye Brad on May 13, 2009 12:14 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I doubt anyone would care about the roids if Merriman broke the sack record
by Roger Dorn on May 13, 2009 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
I actually don’t care as much if NFL players are juicing compared to baseball. Can’t really explain it, but it might have to do with the physicality of football
by Roger Dorn on May 12, 2009 2:53 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
For quarterbacks, steroids just wouldn’t help all that much anyways. If you can throw 75 yards instead of 65, your not going to be any better.
However, if a baseball player does that, a flyball could be a home run.
I know, this isn’t the recovery part but the small added performance boost that might exist.
FE WEE
by westbrook on May 12, 2009 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Again, recovery time, not strength or accuracy is the main reason you would use as a QB.
Sometimes, I just like to b****.
by emd2k3 on May 13, 2009 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
Can’t really explain it,
for me it’s because i view the NFL and the WWF on similar entertainment planes.
by Brick. on May 12, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
The World Wildlife Fund is the superior organization of the two, though neither are that entertaining.
by ClarkM on May 12, 2009 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs
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