00:00He's dealing with patellar inflammation and soreness, so two things. Can you break down
00:05what's actually happening in the knee mechanically when a hitter tweaks it in that way? And what does
00:12no structural damage mean for the young shortstop? There's two ways this could be going. One could
00:18be a cumulative load problem. So he's been loading that patellar tendon over and over and over again,
00:23causing it to kind of get a little bit more damage to it. Not necessarily causing any big tears,
00:28but maybe little micro tears in the tissue. The other potential option for him to have this kind
00:34of problem is getting cartilage irritation. So there's cartilage on the back of your kneecap.
00:39We have cartilage that has this coating on the back of our kneecap, and that can actually get
00:43like a shearing injury from that quick kind of rotation. So it's possible he tweaked the knee
00:48in that way. And that's kind of what we're seeing here. In terms of like no structural damage,
00:53it basically means that nothing's ruptured or torn, more like just tweaked or pinched.
00:58Almost like biting the inside of your cheek and then trying to eat again. And you keep redoing it.
01:03Doctors over at NYU Langone have treated patients who dealt with patellar inflammation. So is there any
01:09difference in the pain and the swelling that they go through as well as their rehab compared to a pro
01:16athlete like George Lombard Jr.? I really think the keynote is that Lombard Jr. is a pro athlete, right? So
01:22this is how he makes
01:24his money. This is his livelihood. The big thing here is making sure that people understand that sometimes
01:30it's okay to modify and drop back a little bit because this is not how you make your money. This
01:35is not your livelihood.
01:36It's very different for a professional athlete.
01:38It's very different for a professional athlete.
