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Baseball Musings
March 16, 2006
Shoulder Strain

The preliminary report on Mark Prior isn't terrible, but they haven't finished testing him yet.

According to team trainer Mark O’Neal, Prior has a “posterior shoulder strain.”

Prior, the Cubs’ 25-year-old right-hander, visited Dr. Lewis Yocum Wednesday in Los Angeles, and an initial exam led to the diagnosis. The next step for Prior will be an MRI athrogram, which was scheduled for this morning. It’s possible the Cubs might have more definitive word by this afternoon.

Yocum, team doctors and the training staff then will huddle Saturday in Arizona “to come up with a game plan after that to try to confirm the diagnosis,” O’Neal said Thursday morning.

Prior will not be able to take part in any throwing activity for at least 48 hours after the MRI athrogram because he’ll have a dye injected into his shoulder, and that needs two days to leave his system.

Stay tuned.

Update: The Cub Reporter has more.

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Posted by David Pinto at 01:41 PM | Injuries | TrackBack (0)
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