The Astros' Justin Verlander and the Phillies' Noah Syndergaard both had Tommy John surgery. Can it make pitchers even faster? TomAvril1 explains.
For the backstory on the surgery — including whether there’s any truth to the belief that it can make pitchers even faster — we spoke to two orthopedic surgeons at the Philadelphia Hand to Shoulder Center:Typically, surgeons reconstruct the patient’s injured elbow ligament by using a tendon that is “harvested” from the forearm.In such cases, surgeons can use a tendon from the patient’s hamstring instead, or they can harvest one from a cadaver.
The ulnar collateral ligament, located on the inside of the elbow, bears an especially high strain, as the pitcher cocks it sideways before snapping the arm forward, Kearns said. Some players need Tommy John surgery because they’ve suffered acute tears in the ligament. More often, the ligament has simply become stretched out, Osterman said.
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