{"id":4544,"date":"2015-03-27T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2020-02-11T14:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:15:11","slug":"diamondbacks-bronson-arroyo-eager-to-return-after-a-12-15-month-healing-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/diamondbacks-bronson-arroyo-eager-to-return-after-a-12-15-month-healing-period\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks\u2019 Bronson Arroyo Eager to Return After a 12-15 Month Healing Period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">For 10 straight years, Bronson Arroyo threw at least 178 innings and averaged over 11 wins a season. However, Arizona Diamondbacks right-handed pitcher Arroyo experienced a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/87qIq_IHyw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">soreness<\/a> he had never experienced before last July.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Prior to the soreness, Arroyo had never experienced any <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/elbow-pain\/\">elbow pain<\/a>, and decided to play through it. He pitched for 5 innings that game and earned the win. He hasn\u2019t pitched since that game.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Arroyo has since undergone Tommy John <a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/pitchers-elbow\/\">elbow surgery<\/a>, which requires a 12-15 month healing period, and he still doesn\u2019t know when he\u2019ll be able to pitch again. He is hoping to pitch by the time the season starts again.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cI threw maybe between 3,500 and 4,000 pitches in 20 years,\u201d Arroyo said. \u201cI guess my body didn\u2019t like it. The only way you get through this is to remain optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 10 straight years, Bronson Arroyo threw at least 178 innings and averaged over 11 wins a season. However, Arizona Diamondbacks right-handed pitcher Arroyo experienced a soreness he had never experienced before last July. Prior to the soreness, Arroyo had never experienced any elbow pain, and decided to play through it. He pitched for 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}