[net-gold] SPORTS MEDICINE : SPORTS: INJURIES : SPORTS: BASEBALL: PROFESSIONAL: Nicasio Resting Comfortably After Neck Surgery
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- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2011 12:32:15 -0400 (EDT)
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SPORTS MEDICINE :
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Nicasio Resting Comfortably After Neck Surgery
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Nicasio Resting Comfortably After Neck Surgery
Best-case scenario has Rockies pitcher ready for Spring Training
By Thomas Harding
MLB.com
08/06/11 8:22 PM ET
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=
20110806&content_id=22849224&vkey=news_mlb&c_id=mlb
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DENVER -- Rockies rookie right-handed pitcher Juan Nicasio is resting
comfortably, in serious but stable condition, in the hospital after
surgery to reattach fragments of the C-1 vertebrae in his neck.
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Nicasio, 24, suffered the injury when hit in the head by a line drive off
the bat of the Nationals' Ian Desmond during the second inning of the
Rockies' 5-3 loss Friday night at Coors Field. Rockies head athletic
trainer Keith Dugger said he is not sure if the neck fracture occurred
when the ball hit him in the head, from the speed of his neck rotation
after impact or when he landed face-first on the mound. Dugger also said
he had not seen a C-1 vertebrae injury in baseball.
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The surgery was performed overnight at Denver Health by Peter Witt, a
neurosurgeon at The Spine Center at the University of Colorado Hospital,
who inserted two screws into the vertebrae and a small plate in the back
of Nicasio's head to stabilize the area. The plate will remain
permanently. There was no damage to the spinal cord.
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Nicasio is medicated but able to sit up and talk, which are good signs,
according to Dugger. But when or whether Nicasio will return to pitching
are unknowns, simply because the injury is so rare in baseball.
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Nicasio also has a fracture along the side of his head. That fracture
will not be repaired with surgery, but doctors are monitoring that injury
with periodic CT scans for dangerous swelling and bleeding.
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"The best-case scenario is he'll be there in Spring Training, starting
for our club," said Dugger, who said Nicasio could be released from the
hospital next week.
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"Him being a professional athlete and the potential to get back to
pitching, his best option was to get this fracture back in its anatomical
position, and pray, and hope and be positive," Dugger said.
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Baseball: Colorado Rockies pitcher Juan Nicasio has neck surgery for
fractured vertebra
Associated Press
Posted: 08/06/2011 10:24:01 PM PDT
Updated: 08/06/2011 10:43:39 PM PDT
Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/other-sports/ci_18633175
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Dugger did not give a definitive prognosis for Nicasio, saying there were
still many unknowns.
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"He can move his arms. He can talk. He can sit up with help. He remembers
every detail of that game, including that pitch," Dugger said. "He was
squeezing my hand so tight in the room today. It's a good sign. I'm
optimistic, but we just don't know. We'll know more once we start getting
into the therapy, at about the six-week mark."
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The rookie right-hander was injured in the second inning Friday night on a
liner by Washington's Ian Desmond. The ball smashed into the right side of
Nicasio's head and bounced back into foul territory.
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Dugger said the injuries Nicasio suffered are more often associated with
an auto accident or perhaps diving into shallow water and hitting a rock.
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"It doesn't get any scarier than this type of incident for us," Dugger
said.
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Dugger said that he remains hopeful that Nicasio could be back on the
mound by next spring.
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Juan Nicasio Hit In Head By Line Drive: Rockies Pitcher Breaks Neck
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