TJ referral in Kansas

CPLZ, check you mail.

Whoops. One more time.

CPLZ- You have a PM.

Is St. Louis too far to travel?

Check your PMs

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Originally posted by CPLZ:
My son is a West Point grad stationed at Ft. Riley near Manhattan, KS and needs Tommy John. He was the staff ace at WP, FB topping at 94. He would like to try to further his baseball professionally after his Army commitment.

The Army contracts this particular surgery out, rather than do it in house. They use a network called www.triwest.com, so not all providers in the area are available to him. He can travel to get it done, so anywhere in Kansas, Nebraska, Kansas City area is good.

If you know of or could recommend any good TJ surgeons, that would be a great starting point for our research.

If you'd rather communicate by email, chip@chipporter.com.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide,
Chip

Dr. Paletta in STL, or you might want to contact the Royals Team doc, for info, I cannot bring up the site you posted.

Keep in touch, hope all is well.

TPM, there is a comma at the end of the link that shouldn't be there.. that's why it doesn't work..

I was thinking Paletta in St. Louis as well.

Here's a link for the Royals...

http://www.kumed.com/default.aspx?id=5553

Thanks everyone for the help so far.

St. Louis is fine, although Paeltta isn't in the triwest network, so he's out. The triwest thing is quite constraining and frustrating, yet we persevere!

You could call his office and ask for a recommendation of others in the area using the list.
You could do the same for the Royals as well as inquiring into larger bb programs in the area as to who they might recommend.
I do know that people from the surrounding states use Paletta, he is the best around in that area.

http://www.triwest.com/OnlineP...ails.aspx?pid=154458

http://www.muhealth.org/body_u...ction=detail&ref=511

Excellent work Bulldog!

I would still call Paletta's office.

BTW I am trying to send you a pm.

Barb,
Excellent thoughts, and we were already going that direction. Coaches at Kansas have already corresponded with Kirk and I was going to have him contact Paletta's office.

Thanks Bulldog, much appreciated.

Chip

All the best to Kirk as he works to get back in the game.

Thanks Swampy!

As is typical, lots of help from HSBBWers, in PM, email and here on the board and I want to tell you all, that it is ALL appreciated..

A very hearty, Thank You, to you all...

Being in the Army presented some obstacles, but Kirk is going to wind up in the very capable hands of Dr. Timothy Kremchek, Cincinnati Reds team doc. He'll be traveling there on 4/9 and then scheduling TJ surgery asap after that.

Most probably aren't familiar with the military mentality, but he's happy to get the surgery quickly so that he won't miss his deployment with his unit to Afghanistan in 15 months. He believes there will be plenty of sand there, from which to build a mound to work himself back into pitching shape .

Thanks for all the support and help, you guys are wonderful,

Chip

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Hoping that all goes well for your son Chip. Please thank him for us for his service to our country.



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Please thank him for us for his service to our country.

Chip - our thoughts and prayers for a complete and speedy recovery from the TEXAS branch of the Kirk Porter fan club.

GED10DaD

Just FYI, TriWest has lost the contract for TriCare. I don't know what that means for treatment already in the pipeline, but if he can wait a month or two, I would suggest not making any decisions on providers.

Kirk had surgery yesterday morning by Dr. Timothy Kremchek in Cincinnati. Kremchek is the Reds team Doc and was trained by Dr. Andrews and has well over 1,000 TJ's under his belt.

His comment after the surgery was, "It couldn't have gone better."

They had to use a ligament from Kirks hamstring since he didn't have the palmyrus ligament in his arm.

Today at his first Phyisical Therapy appt. the PT moved Kirks arm "much further than we can normally move anyone without pain".

Kirk is 100% pain free in his arm (his hamstring is sore) and you'd never know he had surgery just yesterday. He's home for a month now on convalescent leave and as soon as he got home, he took the car to the HS to watch a game.

Life is good.

Chip

Chip- Glad to hear it went well. My TJ, as I mentioned via PM, was 7/21/11. Let me know if he has any questions about the process...it's a long haul but it's nice to see the constant progress each and everyday.

Hey Chip...good to hear surgery went well for Kirk. Give everyone my best.

chip

glad things went well. now eye on the prize.

hope everything is well with you.