Joel Werner
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1,849 appearances
34 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2011
last heard Nov 2017
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I caught up with Dr.
David Altchek, medical director for the Mets, and an orthopedic surgeon who routinely performs his own twist on Tommy John's surgery.
And I put to him that in 2015 the Mets had had a fairly good season.
What's it like being the doctor for a baseball team that goes all the way to the World Series?
I is it a full time job?
A are you out at City Field twenty four seven essentially?
Sticking with the baseball chat for a moment, can you tell me who Tommy John
Before we get to the surgery itself, do we know what it is about pitching that causes the tear to this ligament, the UCL?
Is it the velocity or or the repetition?
What's the causal factor here?
So getting into the the details of the surgical procedure itself, can you take us through what's involved with Tommy John surgery?
And how long
What made you reinvent Dr.
Job's work?
Because a lot of orthopaedic surgeons who are doing Tommy John surgery will still use his technique today.
And what's the success rate o of that thirty percent, how many return to major league baseball once
When they return, do they pitch just as well as they always did?
Can you get them back to full fitness?
It's been reported in the last couple of years that Tommy John surgery is something of an epidemic in North America at the moment.
I the stats I've got here is that it was uh twenty five percent of active major league pitchers and fifteen percent of minor league pitchers that have had the procedure.
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