Injuries in Sport

There’s a surgeon in Chicago who has been performing Tommy John surgeries for decades. For most of his career, his patients were Major League pitchers, grown men with full big-league mileage on their arms. That changed. “Ten years ago, Tommy John surgery was a treatment for Major League Baseball players,” says Dr. Mark Cohen, hand, wrist, and elbow surgeon at Midwest Orthopedics at RUSH and an official physician for the Chicago White Sox. “I’m worried that the majority of pat

Baseball is a game of moments. Some moments define a career in the best way possible: a walk-off home run, a perfect game, a World Series ring. But some moments define a career for all the wrong reasons, and there is nothing a player can do to change it. For Ruben Tejada, that moment came in three seconds on an October night in 2015, and the effects lasted far longer than any box score will ever show. Game 2 of the NLDS, seventh inning. Chase Utley slides hard into second bas