Tommy John surgery and increase of throwing speed

High school athletes do a lot in order to enhance their muscles and improve performance. While certain sportspersons put efforts to increase speed, baseball players put efforts in order to increase throwing speed.
What do high school athletes really do for this goal? You probably know that many sportspersons use anabolic steroids in order to gain muscles and enhance performance. But administration of steroids and other related medicines is not the only method that seems to be effective for several athletic purposes. Certain high school athletes want to have the operation ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction which is also called Tommy John surgery.
Actually, high school athletes don’t know about several aspects related to Tommy John surgery. They base their conceptions on the case related to the baseball player Tommy John who got UCL damage during a baseball game. After the damage the baseball player was too discouraged. Tommy John thought that didn’t have any chance more to play baseball professionally. This person came to the surgeon Frank Jobe. The doctor operated this baseball player successfully. After the operation the baseball player returned to baseball. His further career was very successful. He won many games. Thus, this surgery was called after this man: Tommy John surgery.
When high school athletes find out about Tommy John, they desire to be as excellent players, as he was. They suppose that the surgery induced winning because the baseball player won more games after the operation than before. Although high school athletes may suppose appropriately, they have some wrong conceptions about this surgery. They believe that they may be operated in absence of any damage and increase their performance. But high school athletes don’t consider that nobody can return to playing baseball soon after such surgery. Certain period of time is required to get recovery. Furthermore, it is important to consider that certain dangers connected with Tommy John surgery. They may experience irreversible stiff elbow. Several other dangers are also connected with this operation.
So, high school athletes don’t comprehend the essence of this surgery correctly. When they have elbow pains, they visit their doctors, trying to convince them they should be probably subjected to Tommy John surgery.