The Ask Mike Reinold Show

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The New Tommy John: The Rise of the Internal Brace - #AMR386

The New Tommy John: The Rise of the Internal Brace - #AMR3867 May20 min

Ten weeks to start throwing after UCL surgery sounds like a miracle timeline, until you’re the clinician staring at a stiff elbow, a deconditioned arm, and a protocol that assumes the athlete is further along than reality. We’re seeing more internal brace UCL repairs and fewer “classic” Tommy John reconstructions, and that shift is changing how baseball pitchers, gymnasts, and other overhead athletes move through rehab. We talk through what’s actually different about the internal brace proce...