MCL strain

Which MCL? UCL is another term for MCL of the elbow. Also ligaments are sprained, not strained.

MCL in elbow. The Dr told him strained, he said, but I understand what you are saying.

Sounds risky, but there's no way for us to tell how serious the sprain was so how can we say?

If it is sprain then fibers of the lig are torn. How bad can only be Dx'ed with MRI. Not sure how he could be told throwing is okay unless MRI came back clean.

Hope it all goes well and second opinions are always a good idea. I always let my patients know a second opinion would not insult me.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to go to the following link and ask the question in "My Arm Injury" section. This is the ASMI forum page. You will usually get one of the Docs to respond to your post. Dr. Fleisig will usually respond as well. You may also find some others who have been through this and read through their threads. Good luck.

http://asmiforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?

Thanks for the replies guys. I told him to go to the ASMI site and look around. I think that because the pain that he had was not really too bad, that their doc didnt really take it too seriously. I know that these things are usually 6-8 weeks off, then a gradual throwing program, which is what I told him. I explained that this is the type of thing that needs to be taken very seriously, and that if he is lucky, then his son will only be out a couple of months of baseball. If not, then if he continues to throw through this type of injury, he may be in for a big scar and a year plus out of baseball. Hopefully, he gets that second opinion. His dad told me that they are hoping to nurse it through the summer, because the son will be playing showcase type of baseball, you know 3 inning appearences and whatnot, but Im not sure that he understands the seriousness of the situation.