Baseball’s next miracle surgery
December 12, 2018
December 12, 2018
Baseball’s next miracle surgery
First published in Fansided
By Will Caroll
“It’s a game changer.”
That phrase is often just hype, but when you hear it come from not one, but four of the top orthopedic surgeons in the country, it’s time to take note.
True changes in sports medicine come about once in a generation. Tommy John surgery, the arthroscope, the use of orthobiologic agents like PRP — these innovations are now part of the sports medicine landscape, and regularly help athletes come back from injuries that were career-altering or even career-ending not that long ago.
The latest new method isn’t on the drawing board; it’s in athletes already. And we’re about to see a lot more of it.