Earhart Jeffrey S, Roberts David, Roc Gilbert, Gryzlo Stephen, Hsu Wellington
Departmentof Orthopaedic Surgery, Feinberg School of Medicine, NorthwesternUniversity, 676 N Saint Claire St, Ste 1350, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
Orthopedics. 2012 Jan;35(1):43-9. doi: 10.3928/01477447-20111122-40.
Outcomes after lumbar disk herniation in baseball athletes are currently unknown. It has been postulated that the repetitive torque-producing motions of a baseball player may have negative implications after a disk injury. Sixty-nine lumbar disk herniations (40 treated operatively, 29 nonoperatively) in 64 professional baseball players were identified, and important outcome measures including successful return to play, time to recovery, career longevity, and performance based on vital statistics to each position were documented. Ninety-seven percent of baseball athletes successfully returned to play at an average of 6.6 months after diagnosis. Athletes treated operatively required significantly more time to return to play than those managed nonoperatively (8.7 vs 3.6 months, respectively; P<.0001).
目前尚不清楚棒球运动员腰椎间盘突出症后的预后情况。据推测，棒球运动员重复性产生扭矩的动作可能会在椎间盘损伤后产生负面影响。在64名职业棒球运动员中识别出69例腰椎间盘突出症（40例接受手术治疗，29例非手术治疗），并记录了重要的预后指标，包括成功重返赛场、恢复时间、职业生涯长度以及根据每个位置的重要统计数据得出的表现。97%的棒球运动员在诊断后平均6.6个月成功重返赛场。接受手术治疗的运动员比非手术治疗的运动员需要显著更长的时间才能重返赛场（分别为8.7个月和3.6个月；P<0.0001）。
