Shohei Otani Start rehabilitation from left knee surgery to return on September 17th 9:50
It turned out that Shohei Otani, a major league angel who received surgery for his left knee on the 13th of this month, started rehabilitation for the return on the 16th.
Otani started surgery at the hospital in Los Angeles on the 13th of this month because the pain in his left knee began to enter this season.
The team explained that it would start rehabilitation after resting for a while, but according to interviews with related parties, it was said that it started rehabilitation for the return on the baseball stadium in Anaheim on the 16th.
On that day, the team's medical staff also visited the stadium and had training for the upper body, and massages that stimulated blood flow to the lower body to accelerate the recovery of the left knee for about two hours.
Since Otani had a right elbow surgery last year, he focused on batters this season, but Angels has shown his policy to have Otani play the pitcher and batter in the next season.
Otani players efforts in practice to throw the ball in a state of sitting on the prospect of the after 3 weeks, and then proceeds to the normal catch the ball, we aim to resumption of full-fledged pitching practice in about 10 weeks after surgery.
And full-scale batting practice is expected to resume around January next year.