Will Jazz Chisholm Jr. be ready for Yankees' playoff run? | The Injury Report

This is the injury report presented by NYU Langone Health. Jazz Chisholm Jr., confident he'll return from thumb injury before playoffs. It's a great headline, but is this something that is possible? In today's injury report, we're talking with Dr. Daniel J. Kaplan, sports orthopedic surgeon at NYU Langone, to get the report on Jazz's sprained right thumb. It seems like these guys go down in the worst time. You just get the captain back, but now Jazz goes on a 7-10 day no activity window. So, Doc, appreciate you hopping on with us today. What's the realistic best case versus worst case for Jazz suiting up before the regular season ends in less than a couple weeks? Yeah, you know, for a thumb sprain, it always depends on the severity of the injury. So a sprain is about a ligament, and it's about how much the ligament is stretched. That would be a grade one versus a partial tear. That's more of a grade two or a complete tear. That's a grade three. If they're even talking about him coming back, then it means it's on the lower end of that grading spectrum. So probably a reasonable likelihood that he'll be able to come back for the playoffs, but not before the end of the season. Let's talk about some of your clients that come into NYU Langone, your patients. How painful and difficult to manage could a thumb sprain that Jazz suffered be for one of your patients who don't play pro baseball? So that's something we see all the time. We see it a lot for people who are skiing, where their thumb might get caught in the ski or the pole, rather. Anytime that something forces your thumb away from the rest of your fingers, it can be really common. It can be really disabling. So it depends what they do. So for me, as a surgeon, where I have to do a lot of pinch grip, that actually makes a big difference. That would really negative affect me. For other jobs, maybe typing, not so much. So I would say it can be disruptive depending upon what you do, but it's also super treatable. And at NYU, we have a lot of amazing people who can help with that.