Although I appreciate any ones helpfulness greatly, & I realize you are just being genuine, I have gotten many answers when I had a problem like this recently, that did not help at all. So I need clarify things.
1. I almost definitely understand more than you do about my arm and what I have done right & wrong in conditioning, stretching, warming up, & performing with my right arm.
2. I don’t want to hear about how I need to warm up better, & stretch out my arm & I definitely do not want to hear how I need to throw less. I condition my arm in such a way that my arm can take more throwing than you would expect. I throw everyday, therefore I never get a sore arm. I get minor injuries, mostly to the elbow, but I have an arm that is conditioned & prepared at almost a professional level.
3. The one thing I will willingly admit, just to get out of the way, is that I often times do not warm up my arm properly before throwing. I prepare it when it comes to working out & keeping it healthy, but I understand, & hope to fix when my arm is healthy again, my poor pre-throwing activities.
4. Yes, I am a 13 year old kid, almost 14. But do not tell me how I am too young to have such an injury, or I don’t throw hard enough, because that automatically makes me skip your answer, knowing it won’t be any good. I go to an academy, am well taught, take yoga and palates classes, have pretty good mechanics for my age, & I am big for a 13 year old.
5′ 7”, 145 big.
Anyways, thank you for reading those. I just need any answerers to understand those things.
Here’s what I need to know. I’ll give the questions, then give more detail below
What are possible injuries to the ulnar collateral ligament? What I’m wondering is, could you partially tear it? I understand you can receivemicro-tearss to it. Can it be strained, pulled or another injury? If so, how can I get an idea, other than an MRI, what my diagnosis may be? I have done much research on the injury, & I have many of the symptoms, however mine seem to be more acute versions of the symptoms. This leads me to believe it could be a partial tear, which would be good news to me, assuming partial tears can heal, at least decently. Also, what would such an injury feel like when it occurs? I know this happened one time about 2 months ago, & I was VERY worried about it at the time, but nothing really seemed to trigger it. This time, I hadn’t thrown in 4 days & my arm felt great, so I sped threw warmups & on to long toss, & one specific throw, that may have been thrown a little oddly, gave me a sensation I wouldn’t exactly describe as painful as other information I have read would indicate is common. It felt like a slight hit of the funny bone, maybe with a little pain, but more worrying a feeling than a painful one. I immediately realized it & began throwing with less velocity cautiously, not as much because I couldn’t with the pain, but I was being careful. However, the throws following the incident had significantly more pain than the incident itself, although still nothing unbearable.
Now one more thing that could be a relieving thought, would be, when you tear a ligament, or when reconstructive surgery is needed, does this mean the ligament is torn right through the whole thing? If not, then what is considered a partial tear? At what speed & completeness do partial tears recover? Quickly, fully, slowly, not quite 100%?
More information. This happened to me about 2 months ago, without a specific trigger. I threw through pain for about 1 1/2 weeks(don’t tell me… I understand the mistake here). The only grace in throwing threw the pain was, knowing I could do it. As bad as it is to throw threw pain, knowing I could at least do it, was a bit of a relief ; such an injury requiring Tommy John Surgery, I’m sure would not allow any performance. After that time, I came to my senses & realized I should take days off & let my knowledgeable coach know. After the 3 or 4 days off, the injury had subsided a little bit, & I took it easy that practice. With limited throwing for the next week or so, I was back to 100%. Now here is what I think was another large mistake. Instead of rehabbing it a little bit, I jumped right back into throwing full speed & everyday. I was fine, no problems with my arm for about 2 months, til last saturday. This weekend I also threw through pain, as it was a tournament, & I didn’t want to disappoint. On saturday & sunday combined, I probably threw just under 100 pitches(don’t let that number scare you). My elbow was very sore monday morning, & I could not fully straighten it, however later in the day I got it to be almost fully straight w/ little pain. This morning was the same, with no noticeable difference.
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