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[QUOTE="Brooky03, post: 4866566, member: 8594"]
What exactly happened with Starling's shoulder(s)?

I'm seeing that he sprained them but not that he had any surgery or anything.  Then, I saw references to him changing his mechanics, which I assume was an effort to not sprain them again.

If I'm at all on target with this, changing mechanics to avoid re-injury is a questionable decision, to put it lightly.  For my money, I'd keep the mechanics that were working and instead focus on making the shoulder more stable through strength and range of motion training.  That seems like the obviously better solution, no?  There wasn't anything about his HS shooting motion that seemed abnormal.  This isn't a Tiger Woods putting insane shear forces on his knee type of situation.  His shoulders seem to be not working the way they're meant to and it was decided to just let them keep not working right and come up with mechanics around that instead of fixing the actual problem.

What am I missing?

Edit:  Reading some more, it sounds like he just kind of naturally changed his mechanics to avoid injury, subconsciously.  Okay, that’s making sense.  So, Gerry is trying to fix his mechanics back to what they were, yes?  Needless to say, it’s going to be a long road because his mechanics now aren’t close.
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