“HEALED” ATHLETES CRASHING AND BURNING! (Orthopedics This Week)
Athletes Who Frighten the Best Surgeons
When David Altchek takes a phone call from a despondent coach these days, it just may be because a “healed” player crashed and burned. Dr. Altchek is an attending orthopedic surgeon and is the Medical Director for the New York Mets. He tells OTW, “It is really eerie that high level players who have had a full year of recovery after ACL reconstruction of the knee or ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction of the elbow are getting reinjured so often. It’s unsettling to think that we hav...
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