A07: White Paper

Hypothesis: If someone told you that there were a surgery that could make an athlete come back not only to their own strength before the injury but even stronger, what would you think?

Benefits we see from this surgery:

  1. Baseball injury, torn UCL ligament in a players elbow
  2. Causes players to have a ligament from other part in body removed and wrapped around to increase strength
  3. Long recovery but makes the players arm stronger then it was before the injury happened
  4. Should we start thinking about performing the surgery before an injury even occurs?
  5. This could amplify the game itself and make people change the ways they play

 

1.Working Hypothesis

In baseball, pitchers are forced to throw a ball at a inhuman direction which causes tremendous stress on the arm which could make the ligament holding just the lower arm bones to upper arm bones to tear leaving them sitting out for part of their careers which could be prevented with a single surgery.

2.Topics for smaller paper:

1)Definition/ Classification Argument:

  •  Sports injuries and how they can ruin players careers
  • how we can help prevent these injuries
  • different recovery times for different athletes injuries

2) Cause/Effect

  • The causes of all these injuries have many reasons that we can prevent but a certain injury in which is the scariest in baseball can we stopped early if we start to get this surgery done before the injury even happens.

3) Rebuttal Argument

  • People will think that if they believe there really is a surgery that not only brings an athlete back to their normal self but even stronger, why would we not have this done to every player before they start there main careers.

3.Current State of Research Paper

I believe that researching this topic is making me understand more about how we could really prevent this.  From looking up sources from the Elbow injury that happens at a rate to the surgery itself and recovery time is really giving me a good idea.  Being i am a baseball player myself is making this paper a lot more understandable for me and making it much more fun to write also.

 

 

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