00:00You're dealing with, you know, the highest profile athletes in the world on a daily basis.
00:05I know you're also the doctor, of course, for the Dodgers and for the Rams as well.
00:09And then when you have, let's say, a sports agent who, you know, everyone knows who Scott
00:14Boris is, maybe the most prominent in the history of the game, say that, you know, one
00:20of the people that you perform surgery on is going to return faster than expected.
00:24Is that something that you welcome initially to say?
00:27Because I think it catches people by surprise, and then inevitably it sort of feels like
00:31all of a sudden there's more pressure on the player to return quicker.
00:34Now, in this case, it looks like it's going to happen.
00:36But when you hear that sort of stuff, what is the first thing that goes through your mind?
00:41Well, you know, it depends on who's saying it.
00:44You know, there are some people in the business that, you know, are not as experienced or don't
00:52get as involved with learning about the procedures that we do on clients as others.
01:00And, you know, I tend to know, you know, most of the people in the business that have clients
01:11that need to have surgery or at least be seen medically.
01:15And so, you know, Scott is generally very well informed.
01:22Anything he doesn't know about, he looks to research it.
01:27And, you know, he clearly wants to understand exactly what we're doing.
01:33And because for him, that goes into the calculus of, at least when there are options for treatment,
01:41it helps him to understand, you know, what the ups and downs of having a certain procedure
01:49or treatment is, what the success rate is, and how long the recovery is.
01:54So, to answer your question, it depends on who's saying it.
01:58You know, if it, and, you know, I, generally the agents that send their people in or the
02:08trainers that send the players in, they trust me to give them options that will get the player
02:18back safely and really take care of the problem that we're treating, but also, you know, with
02:26choices of timelines on, on how to come back.
02:32And so maybe in the end, maybe when, when somebody says that it's going to be a certain amount
02:38of time, I, I, to say that somebody's going to come back quicker, that doesn't bother me
02:44as much, but, but if somebody puts an exact time on it, that that's a little bit of a problem
02:50because, you know, everybody's different and, and that doesn't allow for, you know, any things
02:58to, any differences in recovery and treatment to occur.
03:04If they do, you know, I, I generally am able to insulate the player and the patient from,
03:09from worrying about the, the expected timeline and just do what's right for the patient.
03:15But, um, it does add a little bit of, uh, unneeded pressure.
03:21Um, in this case, uh, you know, uh, when I, when I talked to the, to, to the player and
03:29to the, his advisors, uh, about, you know, what the options were, what we could do, um, yeah,
03:36I explained that I, I thought that this would be, uh, a much less invasive way to take care
03:42of this, that the, some of the structures that we would have had to enter, um, and, and
03:47operate through, uh, we could avoid doing that.
03:50And, and, uh, that those were the things that would have, uh, increased the time, uh, to recover
03:56the, and including a little bit more bleeding inside the joint.
04:00And so, you know, I, I, for all those reasons, I told them that, uh, this would, should be
04:06a much less time to recover.
04:08And on the back end, uh, because we wouldn't have him off of throwing very long at the early
04:14part of the season, it, that that's a critical factor in being able to ramp them back up to,
04:21um, competition level function.
04:23You know, this is a tricky time of the year, uh, to have a pitcher that has, has conditioned
04:32himself, uh, in, you know, pre-spring training, then through spring training, um, to get into
04:38his, uh, competition level function, and then to put him off of, of throwing for any length
04:45of time, because the, the clock starts going backwards.
04:49And, and basically, you know, for every day that they're off of throwing, it takes you
04:53two days to get them back reconditioned again to, to go at this time of the year.
04:58If it's later in the season, then they've got, they've, they've got a whole, you know, season,
05:03several months of, uh, of performance that they have, uh, under their belt.
05:08And so they don't, they don't get deconditioned as quickly, uh, when you take them off of throwing.
05:14But, uh, this time of the year, it, it's, it's tough to get that back.
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