00:00Did he make it worse and make his recovery time longer by trying to play through it?
00:06So the short answer is yes, you can certainly make it worse.
00:09Throwing is about one of the most violent motions someone can do in the body.
00:13It's not natural.
00:14It's an incredible amount of torque and stress on the shoulder and the elbow.
00:18So you can certainly make it worse by continuing to play through it,
00:21but not so much show that it would probably make a ton of difference in his recovery post-surgery.
00:26The surgery would be about the same and the follow-up in the rehab and his return would probably be
00:32pretty similar.
00:33So yes, was it a little worse versus if he got surgery immediately?
00:36Maybe, but it wouldn't actually change what we would have to do in the operating room.
00:41So let's say there was a Yankee fan out there who was loud on Twitter last year when Volpe was
00:46going through this
00:47and he or she is a non-athlete, but they suffered a partial labrum tear.
00:53What would their recovery look like?
00:55For a partial labral tear for, you know, keyboard warrior as opposed to actually, you know, gridiron warrior,
01:01there's a good chance we could treat them non-operatively.
01:04Like I said, the sports motion, throwing, diving, that's just asking a tremendous amount of the shoulder
01:09where even small negative alterations could have major consequences.
01:13But for the average person, I would certainly try to treat that non-operatively,
01:18you know, steps one, two, and three, or plans A, B, and C rather, for months.
01:22And if they really couldn't get back, then they would get the same surgery that Volpe did.
01:26I just think it would be less likely to really be necessary in someone like that.
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