Monday 18 April 2011

New York sports injury doctor - Oblique Injuries Plaguing New York Yankees

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, during spring training New York Yankees team members saw 4 separate cases of oblique injuries. Joba Chamberlain, Sergio Mitre, Greg Golson and now Curtis Granderson, have all been felled by the same condition.
The obliques are a broad, flat band of muscle that connects to the pelvis and helps to rotate the hip. Chamberlain, Mitre and Golson are on the mend with their oblique problems, but Granderson's injury could keep him out for a while.
In New York sports injury doctors are no strangers to oblique injuries, but with so many plaguing the same team at once the Yankees are asking themselves whether the issue might be caused by something about their training regimen. The Yankees had a similar problem in 2007 when a rash of hamstring problems knocked out players like Hideki Matsui, Chien Ming Wang and Mike Mussina.
Team manager Joe Girardi admits spring training is very serious business, with rigorous and intense training exercises. He says "Every year there seems to be one thing, in one camp. And a lot of years, you don't necessarily even change what you did the year before, and it could have been something totally different from last year. It just happens."
New York Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Jonathan Glashow is co-chair of sports medicine at Mt. Sinai hospital. He said that he and the trainers he works with are seeing more oblique injuries of late, as a focus on core strength— primarily the abdominals—makes the obliques weaker by comparison.
"There's been a rash of focus on core strengthening, the generic core. But it's not so simple. If you strengthen part of the core more than another part of the core, it creates an imbalance and leads to these oblique injuries," Glashow said. "I don't know if it's this training regimen that's brought this rash of them on, because I never remember hearing about all these oblique injuries."
Glashow, who is a specialist in shoulder and knee surgery in New York says baseball players entering spring training may have done something offseason, like intense core training, or have upper abdominal and back muscles that are more developed than their lower equivalents. In either situation, the obliques aren’t always ready for the rigorousness of spring training so suddenly.
"Seeing players, it seems like what's happening is that the exercises they're doing preseason may be creating a little more muscular imbalance, and then they really push it with their first exposure to this explosive rotation. Baseball's an all-or-nothing sport, and when you go all out, you stretch these muscles that aren't perhaps quite ready yet," Glashow said.
One theory from the team was that the heat of AZ could make the players dehydrated, but Dr. Glashow said that heat actually would help the muscles, not hinder them.
"To the contrary, when it's warmer out, they're a little more flexible,'' he said.”If it was colder, maybe that could be a cause.''
Often deferred to for his opinion and treatment of elite athletes, New York orthopedic surgery specialist Dr. Glashow acted as a medical media consultant for ESPN Sports and was a frequent guest on their morning sport commentary “Cold Pizza.” For more information on Dr. Glashow please visit: http://www.glashowmd.com/.

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