Dr. Kozo Furushima, who is worried about children’s “shoulder elbow”, diagnoses about 1000 people for free in one day
Awareness of preventing shoulder and elbow injuries is spreading to elementary and junior high school students. In the “Pony League” of junior high school baseball, it is prohibited to throw three times in a row or to serve as both a pitcher and a catcher. However, the tendency to make overuse a “good story” has not disappeared. It is said that more than 70% of boys’ baseball players who participated in the national tournament have undergone treatment or surgery at the hospital. Dr. Kozo Furushima, who specializes in the prevention and treatment of shoulder and elbow disorders, warns that “the disappeared genius must not be put out.”
In recent years, the idea that “shoulders and elbows are consumables” has become widespread in the baseball world, and children and instructors are becoming more conscious of “preventing” injuries. Dr. Kozo Furushima, an authority on medial elbow collateral ligament reconstruction surgery (commonly known as Tommy John surgery) and director of the Sports Medicine Center of Keiyu Orthopedic Hospital, welcomed the current situation of progress in understanding, but failed due to overthrowing. Laments that there are still many.
“It just happened that my body was strong, and it was sad that I was injured and crushed and was called a’disappearing genius’.”
Dr. Furushima gives lectures and events all over the country to prevent shoulder and elbow injuries in children. On May 1st, she participated in the “Pony Festa” held by the “Japan Pony Baseball Association” in Kashiwa, Chiba. He, along with other doctors and physiotherapists, used an echo (ultrasound) device to diagnose about 1000 shoulders and elbows for free.
