Lesson learned about playing with an injury

Glad to hear he's back to health and in action.

I know what you mean as my son had some issues with relatively minor injuries.  One one a jammed/sprained wrist and another over shinsplints.  It was in his college sophomore year and he was a key starter and they just kept playing him without really giving him any rest, though they did try a few therapeutic things outside of games and practices that just didn't work.  Rest is what he really needed, but it seemed he was encouraged to "man up" and work through it.  It didn't work and his sophomore year ended up being one of his worst seasons ever.  

Your example of getting the hitting lessons to correct a hitting issue again illustrates to me that most of the time (like 95%) it's really not a mechanical issues, it's a mental one.  A hitter putting so much mechanical issues into their mind can really screw up a good swing. . . aside from some kind of injury hindrance.  

Yes. MENTAL, Truman!

I posted this because I was talking to a player's grandfather this weekend. His grandson is a stud. Heading to D1. He's a switch hitter. He has a hamstring injury -- and is hitting left against lefties. His grandfather (who knows a ton about baseball) said he's seeing changes in the swing, and it ain't good.

My son played through an injury last year the specialist said couldn't get any worse. He's missing this season. Now I just want him to walk properly and be able to run the rest of his life. He accepts baseball is over. He fears not being able to snowboard and play pickup basketball as an adult.

RJM posted:

My son played through an injury last year the specialist said couldn't get any worse. He's missing this season. Now I just want him to walk properly and be able to run the rest of his life. He accepts baseball is over. He fears not being able to snowboard and play pickup basketball as an adult.

Always sad to hear that baseball is over . . .particularly when it'd due to some injury.   Hope he can still play those sports he loves.  I feel lucky to have been able to play basketball up to age 55 (long time ago).  Then I started to listen to my body that was telling me I shouldn't be playing with these 30-somethings any longer.   I don't know how nor enjoy playing basketball except at full tilt, so that was the end of that.  Now I find other things that give me just as much joy . . . like coaching when I can.  And I still like having a catch with my son when he's around and soak my bruised glove hand and fingers afterwards.    

Wishing the best for your son. 

Thanks. I played basketball with the thirty somethings until I had a dissection and four stokes three years ago. Basically I'm back in good health. But I can't do spin moves on the basketball court without losing balance. I wanted to ski for the first time in three years this winter. I just wanted to see if I could handle intermediate sloped this year. There's no snow. What few storms we've had went out to sea instead north. I'm not attemting my return on bare spots and man made ice. It has been warm enough a few days to bike.