Researchers examined pitchers sustaining UCL injuries between 2006 and 2015 from one professional baseball organization. They identified a total of 38 players with UCL injuries.
Here are three notes:
1. Of the 38 players, 32 (84 percent) received non-operative treatment for partial ligament tears.
2. Researchers identified a proximal UCL tear in 81 percent of the patients that were successfully treated non-operatively.
3. Researchers identified a distal UCL tear in patients that failed non-operative treatment and required surgical intervention. Pitchers were “12.4 times more likely to fail non-operative treatment with a distal ligament tear,” said Mark S. Schickendantz, MD, of the Cleveland Clinic’s Sports Health Center and the study’s senior author.
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