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| 1st June, 2007 - 11:41 am | New York Post - Jason Giambi was diagnosed with a partially torn plantar fascia tendon on the bottom of the left foot, was immediately put in a walking boot and will be placed on the disabled list before tonight’s game. While he will be re-evaluated in three weeks by Dr. William Hamilton, who examined Giambi yesterday in New York, it’s usually a three-to-six-month process according to medical sources. Surgery is an option, but not one that is routinely used to release the tendon. Mark McGwire required surgery to fix the same problem.
If surgery isn’t done and the healing process takes three months, that would get Giambi out of the boot at the beginning of September. [READ] |
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