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Thursday, July 26, 2007 |
UTK On Colon
Get ready to yuk it up at Will Carroll's latest:
There's an easy joke any time you get Bartolo Colon in the same sentence with "posterior," but no one in Anaheim is laughing about Colon's latest injury. Colon has a posterior impingement in his pitching elbow, a term you're probably not familiar with. Posterior olecranon impingement is normally an injury caused by hyperextension trauma, where there is now pain, swelling, and what's called "pseudo-locking" in the elbow joint. Pseudo-locking means that the elbow feels like it's locking before it's actually at full extension, reducing the range of motion. The solution is almost always surgical, usually a scoping of the elbow to remove bone chips and/or spurs, arthritic changes, and--you'll love this--fat pad hypertrophy. While Colon should be able to come back, it's unlikely that he'll be able to do so this year. While the injury does sometimes respond to non-surgical treatment, it almost always recurs. It appears that Colon's elbow was compromised by altered mechanics after his return from his shoulder injury. Even though he came back more quickly than other pitchers with similar injuries, Colon had a price to pay that's now been posted.
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I'm just shocked by this...
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We all knew (for whatever reason) Bartolo took the easier way out by opting not to have shoulder surgery last winter. Now he has to pay for it with another type of surgery. And we all suffer with the aftermath. Hopefully he'll get the shoulder repaired as well this time.
I'm just shocked by this...
/sarcasm
We all knew (for whatever reason) Bartolo took the easier way out by opting not to have shoulder surgery last winter. Now he has to pay for it with another type of surgery. And we all suffer with the aftermath. Hopefully he'll get the shoulder repaired as well this time.
Easy? I don't know that rehab is any easier than surgery. And who knows but that the team or his agent or even his doctor pushed him in the direction of rehab. What would we have said if, instead of going in for rehab, he had gone the surgical route and was totally useless in his walk year because he spent all of it recovering? I can't see that as a good thing for him or the Angels.
Maybe you're right about bad advice, but most of the opinions I heard were that the shoulder would have to be surgically repaired. And now he's going under the knife mid-season.
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