With the shoulder injuries sustained by Cleveland Indians Yan Gomes and Michael Brantley, a lot of people are concerned and have questions about shoulder injuries as it relates to baseball.
Dr. Nilesh Shah from Summa Health System joined Brad Russell on Wednesday to talk about the injuries to both players and how they can best work through them, and get back out on the diamond.
With Brantley, he had surgery on his labrum in the offseason, and now his bicep tendon is giving him problems. Shah said in addition to rest, Brantley's got to attack rehabiliation like a fastball over the plate.
"A lot of it is really agressive rehab to help stabilize the shoulder joint, which he has been doing," Shah said.
With catcher Yan Gomes, who is out 4-6 weeks with a separated shoulder, Shah says there's many different grades of separations, and it could be a differing timetable on his return.
"It's just a matter of getting his strength back, getting his range of motion back," he said.