Evaluation of Differences in Imaging Findings on Stress-MRI in Throwing Athletes With and Without a History of Ulnar Collateral Ligament Reconstruction
Midhat Patel, Kendall Schwartz, Mari Schenk, Pamela Lund, Ken Crenshaw, Roger Caplinger, William Raasch, Gary Waslewski, Evan Lederman, Anup Shah · 2026
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Midhat Patel and co-authors published a journal article in 2026 comparing stress MRI scans of elbows in throwing athletes with and without past elbow ligament reconstruction. A special scan view bends and stresses the elbow to test the ligament that resists throwing strain. Pitchers from two Major League Baseball franchises had preseason scans.
Eighteen pitchers had past reconstruction, on average 4.5 years earlier, and 76 had not. The reconstructed group showed slightly more joint space opening under stress, 4.3 against 3.8 millimeters. Their ligament signal grade on scans was also higher. Other measures, including swelling pattern and injury grade details, were read by two specialist radiologists for comparison.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Midhat Patel, Kendall Schwartz, Mari Schenk, Pamela Lund, Ken Crenshaw, Roger Caplinger, William Raasch, Gary Waslewski, Evan Lederman, Anup Shah |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20289 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |