Pre-Determined Surgery

When looking at athletes, we realize that there are many injuries that they can come by.  Some can so much as end an athletes career while some have a smaller recovery time.  When looking at all injuries, we know there are some that we can prevent but some that will just happen out of no where.  Obviously seeing an athlete get injured is terrible because it is what they live for and put there bodies out there day in and day out. There are certain injuries that happen to certain athlete in their own sports as well.  When we look at injuries we know that there are processes that we can choose to go through to get better.  There are procedures such as surgery, physical therapy, or rest or icing.  All injuries differ in there own ways.  If we zero in to a certain sport like baseball, we can look at one of the hardest injuries and something that happens to a lot of pitchers.  The injury is called Tommy John, or a UCL tear which is the ligament inside the elbow basically holding the arm together from the inside.  There are some people that will look at this and say that players should have the surgery before they start there actual careers in their sports to amplify there game and also help prevent the injury from happening when in their prime.

We can look at this in a few ways.  Why would someone want to be operated on if they do not have an injury?  Nothing says that the injury is going to happen but they way youth baseball is going, kids are throwing curveballs at such a young age that their arms are not fully developed, we can see that this is coming more common then ever.  Some studies show that getting the surgery brings pitchers back stronger then they ever were because the support in the elbow is so strong that it is basically adding another spring into the elbow which helps throw harder.  To look at some reasons why this is not a good idea can start with this:

Surgery is always something is very afraid of because no one wants to be knocked out and cut open to fix something inside of them but sometimes it is necessary in a certain situation.  Surgery is not always safe, there are times when some people get infections, sometimes nerve injury can happen, and sometimes Chronic Regional Pain System.  That is a first reason why we should not be having the surgery done if there is no reason too.  Number two, if an athlete is on their way and doing great just the way they are, why would you change that?  There is a saying that goes by, “Don’t fix whats not broken.”  We put athletes in risk or these problems if we were to go ahead and start having surgery with no injury.

Like said, injuries to athletes are always terrible to hear and you never want to see that happen to anyone.  If we bring up this argument on whether or not we should put pitchers through the surgery before they have the chance to get injured.  People will more or likely respond with no.  It just doesn’t make sense.  Yes the recovery rate is very high and not makes pitchers strong but we should shouldn’t change what is already working.  In a sense, we can think it is cheating.

Work Cited

Miller, Sam. “Why Pitchers Will Always Have Tommy John Surgery.” ESPN.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.

“What Can Go Wrong.” In Surgery with Dr. Chris Chiodo. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Nov. 2016.