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Arm injuries on the rise for youth baseball players
From NewYorkTimes.com:
About a dozen years ago Andrews noticed a trend — the number of teenage patients seeing him for shoulder and elbow injuries had begun to rise. In 2001 and 2002, he performed a total of 13 shoulder operations on teenagers. Over the next six years, he did 241 such operations. The surge in the number of Tommy John elbow operations was every bit as drastic: 9 from 1995 to 1998, 65 over the next four years, 224 from 2003 to 2008. Colleagues across the nation reported similar increases. “An epidemic” is how Andrews described the phenomenon to me. Alden’s Tommy John surgery, while successful, left a sour taste in his mouth. “The operation was designed for older, professional athletes,” Andrews said. “Now it’s just the opposite.” In 1996, he decided he wanted to do something about it.
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