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Andrews Sports Medicine

In the Fall of 2019, I was a softball pitcher in my junior year at Oklahoma State University. I began experiencing numbness and tingling in my left elbow. Also, I could not grip the softball. My arm had been swollen for a couple of weeks and so I decided to get it evaluated by my athletic trainer. He said that I had a stress fracture in my ulna and recommended I take time off from softball for 6 weeks. I had gone home to Minnesota for the Christmas break...

My entire experience, from my initial office visit, surgery and post-op appointments were first class. I never felt like I was pressured to have surgery. I knew I needed surgery after Dr. Andrew Cordover vividly explained my situation and treatment options during my initial visit.

I am feeling great and would recommend Dr. James Flanagan to anyone needing hip replacements and Drs. Charles Carnel and Andrew Cordover for back issues. I recommend Andrews Sports Medicine to all my family and friends dealing with orthopedic issues! Before I visited Andrews Sports Medicine, I was experiencing all kinds of pain, but once I took the step to go I was able to focus on getting better.

In the spring of 2020, the Covid19 Pandemic shut down collegiate sports including baseball at James Madison University (JMU). I continued to stay in shape by maintaining my training regimen. I joined a county league in order to keep pitching. I threw only one inning. In the second to last pitch, I felt a pop in my elbow.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Spring 2020, the marathon that I had signed up for Fall 2020 was cancelled. I decided to do what any rational runner would do, and train harder, faster, and longer than ever so that when races returned I would be ready to crush them all. It didn’t work out that way. By late July/early August, I was having quite a bit of hamstring tightness and hip pain during my training runs.

My husband and I have always been very physically active. We have a large yard and find it very enjoyable and rewarding to work in our yard together and keep it well-maintained.

Way back in the spring of 2013, I put out 86 bags of mulch during a two-week period. I distinctly remember the 86 bags because that particular project brought on years of pain and discomfort in my left shoulder, which negatively impacted my quality of life.

Initially, I thought I had simply “overdone it” and that I’d strained my shoulder, which also started grinding more and more. I took it very easy the next few days hoping my shoulder would start feeling better, but it didn't.