今日 Stephen Strasburg - 美國職棒

我想這邊可能是有點誤解

事實上，以目前的醫學角度來看，Stephen Strasburg開TJ之後的復健速度應該還算正常

不算特別快或特別慢

詳情可以參考這篇文章

http://tinyurl.com/4jpyqbm

That rehab time after Tommy John surgery is becoming one of the key points in
the recovery. While most still quote the 12-18 month time frame after
reconstruction, the fact is that using modern techniques and rehab has the
real recovery period down to 9-12 months.

以現在的復健技術，只要9~12個月就可以完全恢復

像Edinson Volquez，動刀後11個月就重回大聯盟幫助紅人爭奪分區冠軍

Strasburg開TJ到現在差不多就是12個月，這樣的復健速度可說是完全正常的


至於為什麼一般媒體都會引用所謂的"12~18的月"的復健期呢?

n fact, the 18-month rehab that's often cited as the standard is as old as
the surgery itself. Tommy John took 18 months to return from that first
surgery. Few realize that John had a major setback during his rehab, an
inflamed ulnar nerve, that required a second surgery. Many surgeons now move
that nerve as a routine part of the surgery. Others leave it in place,
knowing it's easily fixable and that the problem only occurs in a minority of
cases. The "transpose or not transpose" schools of thought can be fun to
watch, in an orthopedic kind of East Coast-West Coast rap battle.

這是因為當初Tommy John動手術後又發生神經感染的問題

再次動了第二個手術解決

因此花了比較久的時間復健

現在一般手術時都會把那條神經拿掉

因而當年Tommy John那樣術後發炎的問題就不復存在

也就不需要用到18個月那麼久的時間才能完全恢復

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