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Treatment for back pain and leg pain

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For all the baseball fans, or players, out there, I hope everybody enjoyed the World Series. Today, I would like to talk about one of the most common baseball injuries. This is an elbow injury, called ulnar collateral ligament tear. These days, as young players tend to specialize earlier and earlier and only play one sport, overuse injuries seem to be more and more common and seem to happen earlier in life. Ulnar collateral ligament injury is the result of repetitive use of the elbow during baseball throwing motion. This injury has been historically treated with ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction. During this surgery, the ligament in the medial (inside) elbow is replaced with a tendon from somewhere else in the body, be it from the forearm, hamstring, or foot. This surgery was first performed in 1974 by Dr. Frank Jobe, on Tommy John, a pitcher who ironically started his career in 1963 with the Cleveland Indians (for all of you Cleveland World Series fans). While this su...
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