Cleveland Guardians team doctor Mark Schickendantz enters 32nd season with club

Описание: But during baseball season, Mark Schickendantz, MD, is one of the most important members of the Guardians. Opening day marks his 32nd year as team doctor, dating back to when the then Indians still played at old Municipal Stadium.

"Thankfully, they don't need my services very often," Schickendantz, an orthopedic surgeon at Cleveland Clinic's Sports Medicine Center, joked.

He travels to spring training, and is usually never far from a Guardians home game.

"I go to the majority of the home games," he said. "I try to be there when the guys come off the road, I try to be there when they're leaving on a road trip, and a few games in between."

In the last three decades, Schickendantz has seen players and injury prevention evolve.

"We actually do very little surgery on these guys, if you look at it in just sheer numbers," he told 3News, "and I think it's because we understand how to get these guys back with the physical therapy and the training that we're doing."

Monica Robins reports: https://www.wkyc.com/article/sports/m...