April 12, 2025 • 9 mins
Dr. Angel Velazquez from OrthoCincy joined us to discuss Matt McLain's hamstring injury and other Reds-related injury issues.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's do this. We typically do this on Wednesdays,
sometimes Thursdays, and then this week because of scheduling, we're
doing it on a Friday. We talk injuries with one
of the experts from Ortho Sincy Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
The great thing about Ortho Sincy is they have specialists
on locations and services across the tri State, including walk
in orthopedic injury urgent care at five locations with extended
(00:24):
evening and weekend hours in Edgewood and Anderson. You can
learn more at orthosinc dot com. That's orthos ci Ncy
dot com. Joining this week is my guy, doctor Angel
Velasquez from Orthosincy, the man who fixed my neck. It's
good to have you. Let's talk about Matt McClain and
(00:45):
actually fold Edwin and Royo into the conversation as well,
because both players are dealing with hamstring strains. So let's
start with this. Can the location of a hamstring strain
on the leg help determine the severity?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Absolutely? You know, number one, Thank for the introduction.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Now that sounds pretty good, but definitely, definitely, you know,
the location of the handstring or any kind of muscle
tendon group injury.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It is important for uh, you know, to atway and
see you know, how long this injury may may take,
may take to come back from the you know, for
the players to come back. Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, any injury that is muscle diactally into the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Muscle, especially in the handstring, you had a lot of
blood vessels.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You had a lot of blood flowing. So with the
blood flowing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You're eating properties increase and you're gonna get back quicker.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Obviously, when there's a.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Tendon involvement, Uh, depending the verity of the injury of
the tendon.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Uh, it is where the.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tendon and the muscle get together. You know, it is
better than just the tendem for the bond.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So definitely a.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Position of the injury of the location is important to
identify this.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
What is the recovery timeline based on the grade of
the strain.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, most of the time grade two strain, especially
most of strain you know, could be something between two
and three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I'm and I'm just talking.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
About you know, recovery, start doing baseball related activities.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
In the meantime, the player need to be.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Doing some physical therapim other body parts so.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
They're not losing you know, the conditions they have before.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So as soon as the injuries healed and they start
doing baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Relate activities, they can start coming back and ramp it up.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you know, the first several ways to be for
complete hitting or like grade one, and the next week
or so to get in conditioning, you know, get the
in a position player, get the hand eye coordination to hit,
and then go from there. A great tree is a
significant air you know, that could be three to four months,
you know, especially if it's a tenel involvement could be
(02:50):
more than that or even surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Does the early season cool weather that we're dealing with
right now impact the recovery timeline at all?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I think the the early season cold weather that we're having,
UH increase the risk for the injuries you know those
this is a static you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Know, this is a sport that you are not constantly moving.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, you're moving, but you have a lot of moments
where you are not engaged in your muscle groups and
and that active movement UH definitely increase your increase your
risk of injury.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The warmer that you are, the more blood flow go
to your to your muscle the more those muscles.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Are ready, the colder it is, obviously, you know, take
a little bit more time for them to warm up,
and you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Can get injury a little bit easier.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And obviously the recovery time, the recovery is not the
issues getting ready to play, right, So if you continue
being cold, you're you have more risk for reinjury because
you know, you need to be constant moving and keeping warm,
and it's impossible this weather.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
With Matt McLain specifically, so he's obviously dealing with a
hamstrings train. He missed all of last year with the
shoulder injury. It was an oblique two years ago. Or
some athletes simply more injury prone than others, you know, you.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Have to think that too, right, So some players are
maybe their genetics made them be less prone two injuries,
maybe their flexibility, you know, maybe they are you know,
put the work you know, before their their their games,
or due to the.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Process in the off season. So there's a lot of factors.
You can't say that he worked less than others.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You assume that he works as a professional as good
as other and you know, sometimes this is in their games, uh,
you know, sometimes just bad.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Luck, right that that shoulder injury is just a bad luck.
You like Marte, you know, you die and you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Feel that something happened on your shoulder, that's just bad luck,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But but these are professional players. This is the guy
that can bounce back. These are not at least is entering.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Doesn't sound like it's a severe injury.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So he should be able to bounce back.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And then you know, his flexibility address is a strengthening
address his you know, uh, the process getting ready for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Games and and and put a little bit of work
into it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
There was a study done recently that indicated that hamstring
related injuries are more prevalent in baseball than other sports.
Any idea why.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, number one, that study came and it's true. You
know this, these athletes, like I mentioned before, it is
not a sport that you're in constant movement, right. So
you know, you got basketball players, they're moving defense, offense,
they are moving constantly.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You know, football players.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They you know obviously get in and out, but when
they are in, you know, in their position, they're moving constantly.
They might have periods of seconds to get rest. But
on baseball there's a lot of stuff and going. Obviously,
now the pitch clock, the game is a little bit quicker.
They're moving a little bit more, but we still go
to the you know, to the dog out and sit
down and watch the game.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So you have a lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Those process So this muscle you're asking them to go
from being started not moving to suddenly go as fast
as you can to get a ball, or run as
fast as you can to get the first base, to
beat up the grand ball to second base or short stop.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is probably why baseball players are in more risk,
especially in position players.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know, you got players who have played all the time,
have less resting.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well they break down to the season.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, you've got a players who got more adapts,
they got more on there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So if you look, position players are the highest risks.
And you know, obviously the.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Incident is coming more from running on the basis and
the world lad is important with less periods of rest
in depending the players, you know, play one hundred and
sixty two games or one hundred and forty games resting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Doctor Angel Velaska is from Ortho, Sincy with this all right,
one more Tyler Stevenson. Obviously we are waiting for him
to come back because he's missed the entire season so
far with oblique and and there's some optimism based on
his most recent MRI that they can start to ramp
up his baseball activities. So give me an idea of
what they might have seen on the MRI that has
(07:11):
everybody so encouraged.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, first, when you got an MRI, you want to
be sure are the number one the tear or the
injury that he had into the ob league has healed, right,
so there's a scar tissue. Then after that you say, okay,
the tear healed, but there's still some inflammation over there.
So perhaps that you have a scar tissue, you don't
have the tear of the bond, or.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
You don't have the tear in the muscle, but you
still have a little bit of inflammation.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So that's what you take on consenteration.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So when you got an MRI and shows hey, this
looks good, now it's more.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
About let's start doing some baseball redout activities. Let's progress.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, digit on his left side, so it is
on the control side from throwing for his throwing arm,
but that is one that get more injury on a
throwing adlets right, So when you're throwing, you are arching
and turning to to your left for him as a
right handed and you know that we're gonna put a
lot more stress there.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Hitting the same thing. So now it's time to you
know the baseball really.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Activity is what that means is, let's toss the ball.
Let's start doing some dry swings. Let's see it. You
know every other day, how you feel. Be sure there's
no sort that's coming back. You know, sometimes all to
some help to take a look at it to be
sure it's not any injury in the process, and then
build it up, you know, his effort to progress from.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That awesome stuff. I cannot thank you enough. We will
do it again soon. The man who fixed my neck,
doctor Ange of Alaskaz, you're the best.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thanks so much. Hey, that was an easy face for me. Okay,
so you did a good job and you're a good
patient too. Pet. He told me that you were working
really hard.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So that is a really important part of the recovery,
doing physical therapy and put the artwork, and you did it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
If if a guy who knows more about me tells
me to do something and it's going to decrease the
pain or make it go away, I say yes, we'll
chat suit man. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's my guy, doctor angel Alaskuez, the man who fixed
my neck from Orthosincy. I say this every week because
it's true. The great thing about Orthosincy is they have
specialists in locations all over the Tri State. This includes
walk in orthopedic urgent care weekdays nine a m. To
nine pm and on Saturdays nine am to one pm
at both Edgewood and Anderson. It's easy because you don't
(09:24):
need an appointment and it's definitely cheaper than going to
an er. Whenever you have an urgent orthopedic injury, check
out Orthosinc dot com. That's orthos ci Ncy dot com.
All right, let's do this. We typically do this on Wednesdays,
sometimes Thursdays, and then this week because of scheduling, we're
doing it on a Friday. We talk injuries with one
of the experts from Ortho Sincy Orthopedics and Sports Medicine.
The great thing about Ortho Sincy is they have specialists
on locations and services across the tri State, including walk
in orthopedic injury urgent care at five locations with extended
(00:24):
evening and weekend hours in Edgewood and Anderson. You can
learn more at orthosinc dot com. That's orthos ci Ncy
dot com. Joining this week is my guy, doctor Angel
Velasquez from Orthosincy, the man who fixed my neck. It's
good to have you. Let's talk about Matt McClain and
(00:45):
actually fold Edwin and Royo into the conversation as well,
because both players are dealing with hamstring strains. So let's
start with this. Can the location of a hamstring strain
on the leg help determine the severity?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Absolutely? You know, number one, Thank for the introduction.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Now that sounds pretty good, but definitely, definitely, you know,
the location of the handstring or any kind of muscle
tendon group injury.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It is.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
It is important for uh, you know, to atway and
see you know, how long this injury may may take,
may take to come back from the you know, for
the players to come back. Uh.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
You know, any injury that is muscle diactally into the.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Muscle, especially in the handstring, you had a lot of
blood vessels.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You had a lot of blood flowing. So with the
blood flowing.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
You're eating properties increase and you're gonna get back quicker.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
Obviously, when there's a.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Tendon involvement, Uh, depending the verity of the injury of
the tendon.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Uh, it is where the.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tendon and the muscle get together. You know, it is
better than just the tendem for the bond.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
So definitely a.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Position of the injury of the location is important to
identify this.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
What is the recovery timeline based on the grade of
the strain.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
You know, most of the time grade two strain, especially
most of strain you know, could be something between two
and three weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I'm and I'm just talking.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
About you know, recovery, start doing baseball related activities.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
In the meantime, the player need to be.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
Doing some physical therapim other body parts so.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
They're not losing you know, the conditions they have before.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
So as soon as the injuries healed and they start
doing baseball.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Relate activities, they can start coming back and ramp it up.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
So you know, the first several ways to be for
complete hitting or like grade one, and the next week
or so to get in conditioning, you know, get the
in a position player, get the hand eye coordination to hit,
and then go from there. A great tree is a
significant air you know, that could be three to four months,
you know, especially if it's a tenel involvement could be
(02:50):
more than that or even surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Does the early season cool weather that we're dealing with
right now impact the recovery timeline at all?
Speaker 3 (02:59):
I think the the early season cold weather that we're having,
UH increase the risk for the injuries you know those
this is a static you.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Know, this is a sport that you are not constantly moving.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Right, you're moving, but you have a lot of moments
where you are not engaged in your muscle groups and
and that active movement UH definitely increase your increase your
risk of injury.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
The warmer that you are, the more blood flow go
to your to your muscle the more those muscles.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Are ready, the colder it is, obviously, you know, take
a little bit more time for them to warm up,
and you.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Can get injury a little bit easier.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
And obviously the recovery time, the recovery is not the
issues getting ready to play, right, So if you continue
being cold, you're you have more risk for reinjury because
you know, you need to be constant moving and keeping warm,
and it's impossible this weather.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
With Matt McLain specifically, so he's obviously dealing with a
hamstrings train. He missed all of last year with the
shoulder injury. It was an oblique two years ago. Or
some athletes simply more injury prone than others, you know, you.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Have to think that too, right, So some players are
maybe their genetics made them be less prone two injuries,
maybe their flexibility, you know, maybe they are you know,
put the work you know, before their their their games,
or due to the.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Process in the off season. So there's a lot of factors.
You can't say that he worked less than others.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You assume that he works as a professional as good
as other and you know, sometimes this is in their games, uh,
you know, sometimes just bad.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
Luck, right that that shoulder injury is just a bad luck.
You like Marte, you know, you die and you.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Feel that something happened on your shoulder, that's just bad luck,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
But but these are professional players. This is the guy
that can bounce back. These are not at least is entering.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Doesn't sound like it's a severe injury.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So he should be able to bounce back.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
And then you know, his flexibility address is a strengthening
address his you know, uh, the process getting ready for.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Games and and and put a little bit of work
into it.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
There was a study done recently that indicated that hamstring
related injuries are more prevalent in baseball than other sports.
Any idea why.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Well, number one, that study came and it's true. You
know this, these athletes, like I mentioned before, it is
not a sport that you're in constant movement, right. So
you know, you got basketball players, they're moving defense, offense,
they are moving constantly.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
You know, football players.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
They you know obviously get in and out, but when
they are in, you know, in their position, they're moving constantly.
They might have periods of seconds to get rest. But
on baseball there's a lot of stuff and going. Obviously,
now the pitch clock, the game is a little bit quicker.
They're moving a little bit more, but we still go
to the you know, to the dog out and sit
down and watch the game.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So you have a lot of.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Those process So this muscle you're asking them to go
from being started not moving to suddenly go as fast
as you can to get a ball, or run as
fast as you can to get the first base, to
beat up the grand ball to second base or short stop.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
That is probably why baseball players are in more risk,
especially in position players.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
You know, you got players who have played all the time,
have less resting.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Well they break down to the season.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know, you've got a players who got more adapts,
they got more on there.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
So if you look, position players are the highest risks.
And you know, obviously the.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Incident is coming more from running on the basis and
the world lad is important with less periods of rest
in depending the players, you know, play one hundred and
sixty two games or one hundred and forty games resting.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Doctor Angel Velaska is from Ortho, Sincy with this all right,
one more Tyler Stevenson. Obviously we are waiting for him
to come back because he's missed the entire season so
far with oblique and and there's some optimism based on
his most recent MRI that they can start to ramp
up his baseball activities. So give me an idea of
what they might have seen on the MRI that has
(07:11):
everybody so encouraged.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
Well, first, when you got an MRI, you want to
be sure are the number one the tear or the
injury that he had into the ob league has healed, right,
so there's a scar tissue. Then after that you say, okay,
the tear healed, but there's still some inflammation over there.
So perhaps that you have a scar tissue, you don't
have the tear of the bond, or.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
You don't have the tear in the muscle, but you
still have a little bit of inflammation.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
So that's what you take on consenteration.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
So when you got an MRI and shows hey, this
looks good, now it's more.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
About let's start doing some baseball redout activities. Let's progress.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
You know, digit on his left side, so it is
on the control side from throwing for his throwing arm,
but that is one that get more injury on a
throwing adlets right, So when you're throwing, you are arching
and turning to to your left for him as a
right handed and you know that we're gonna put a
lot more stress there.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Hitting the same thing. So now it's time to you
know the baseball really.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Activity is what that means is, let's toss the ball.
Let's start doing some dry swings. Let's see it. You
know every other day, how you feel. Be sure there's
no sort that's coming back. You know, sometimes all to
some help to take a look at it to be
sure it's not any injury in the process, and then
build it up, you know, his effort to progress from.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
That awesome stuff. I cannot thank you enough. We will
do it again soon. The man who fixed my neck,
doctor Ange of Alaskaz, you're the best.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Thanks so much. Hey, that was an easy face for me. Okay,
so you did a good job and you're a good
patient too. Pet. He told me that you were working
really hard.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
So that is a really important part of the recovery,
doing physical therapy and put the artwork, and you did it.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
If if a guy who knows more about me tells
me to do something and it's going to decrease the
pain or make it go away, I say yes, we'll
chat suit man. Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
That's my guy, doctor angel Alaskuez, the man who fixed
my neck from Orthosincy. I say this every week because
it's true. The great thing about Orthosincy is they have
specialists in locations all over the Tri State. This includes
walk in orthopedic urgent care weekdays nine a m. To
nine pm and on Saturdays nine am to one pm
at both Edgewood and Anderson. It's easy because you don't
(09:24):
need an appointment and it's definitely cheaper than going to
an er. Whenever you have an urgent orthopedic injury, check
out Orthosinc dot com. That's orthos ci Ncy dot com.
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