. SPORTS: MEDICINE : SPORTS: INJURIES : SPORTS: BASEBALL: After Strasburg Is Lewis Yocum The New King Of Sports Medicine? (Surpassing James Andrews?) After Strasburg Is Lewis Yocum The New King Of Sports Medicine? (Surpassing James Andrews?) Sep. 10 2010 - 11:28 am Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/davidwhelan/2010/09/10/ after-strasburg-is-lewis-yocum-the-new-king-of- sports-medicine-surpassing-james-andrews/ A shorter URL for the above link: http://tinyurl.com/2bhvhq6But unfortunately he only pitched in 12 major league games this summer before his season, and possibly his career, ended with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing elbow. Fortunately the injury is one that can be fixed most of the time in the operating room with whats known as a Tommy John surgery, named after the pitcher who was the first to get his elbow repaired in 1974, and went on to win another 164 games.
For a pitcher as talented as Strasburg, you dont just pick any surgeon. I was curious to read who got the assignment. Reportedly it was Los Angeles orthopedist Lewis Yocum. Yocum is the team doctor for the Los Angeles Angels, and a protege of Dr. Frank Jobe, who performed the original Tommy John surgery. What I also noticed was that Strasburg, whose elbows health is more valuable than almost any other in the world, save for maybe Tom Brady, Tiger Woods and few others we could all name, had decided on a surgeon not named James Andrews.
Whos Dr. James Andrews? Hes been the foremost sports medicine doctor in the U.S. since I can remember, treating luminaries like Michael Jordan and Troy Aikman at his Birmingham, Ala. clinic.
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