Tommy John surgery and successful baseball career

High school athletes do a lot in order to enhance their muscles and improve performance. While several sportspersons put efforts to increase speed, baseball players put efforts in order to enhance throwing speed.
What do high school athletes really do for this purpose? As you know, numerous sportspeople take anabolic steroids in order to add muscles and enhance performance. But intake of steroids and other related drugs is not the only way that seems to be effective for certain athletic purposes. Some high school athletes want to have the operation ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction which is also called Tommy John surgery.
Actually, high school athletes don’t know about several conditions connected with Tommy John surgery. They base their points of view on the case connected with the baseball player Tommy John that received UCL damage during a baseball game. After the damage he was too unhappy. Tommy John thought that didn’t have any chance longer to play professional baseball. This person visited the surgeon Frank Jobe. The doctor operated this man successfully. After the operation Tommy John came back to baseball. Tommy John’s further career was very successful. He won a lot of games. So, this surgery was called after this baseball player: Tommy John surgery.
When high school athletes find out about Tommy John, they want to become as excellent players, as he was. They believe that the surgery promoted winning because the baseball player won more games after the operation than before. Although high school athletes may suppose properly, they have some misconceptions about this operation. They think that they may be operated in absence of any damage and increase their performance. But high school athletes don’t take into account that no one can return to playing baseball soon after such operation. Certain period of time is needed to receive recovery. Furthermore, it is important to take in consideration that several dangers related to Tommy John surgery. They may get irreversible stiff elbow. Several other dangers are also related to this operation.
Thus, high school athletes don’t understand the essence of this surgery properly. When they have elbow pains, they let their physicians know about this problem, trying to convince them they should be probably subjected to Tommy John surgery.