{"id":638,"date":"2012-12-19T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T00:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?page_id=638"},"modified":"2020-01-29T18:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:02:10","slug":"little-leaguers-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/little-leaguers-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Leaguer\u2019s Shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Little Leaguer\u2019s Shoulder is also called Proximal Humeral Epiphysitis.\u00a0 It is a childhood and adolescent condition in which the growth plate located at the upper end of the humerus next to the shoulder joint is repeatedly overloaded \u2013 usually by throwing in baseball, as well as in tennis players, or participants in other throwing sports.<\/p>\n<p>Pain in, or just below the shoulder, is the most common symptom and should be treated with rest, and later with reduced pitch count so that the injury does not result in more serious compromise of the growth plate that could lead to permanent bony deformity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Leaguer\u2019s Shoulder is also called Proximal Humeral Epiphysitis.\u00a0 It is a childhood and adolescent condition in which the growth plate located at the upper end of the humerus next to the shoulder joint is repeatedly overloaded \u2013 usually by throwing in baseball, as well as in tennis players, or participants in other throwing sports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}