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thestar.com

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH MARADONA?

Crude gestures, profane tirades, ill-timed trips to the spa . . .
the legend of Argentine soccer has seen better days, S3
ON

Angels tread
fearlessly on
Yank bullpen
Angels 5 Yankees 4 (11) YANKEES LEAD SERIES 2-1
Scioscia manages boldly while Girardi scrambles
to keep up; now it’s all up to New York ace Sabathia
ANAHEIM, CALIF.

T
he Yankees have blown
bigger leads than this one —
right, Red Sox fans? — and
talk about putting the pressure on
CC Sabathia here Tuesday.
If the big left-hander, pitching
with a 2-1 series lead on short rest,
can’t hold down the Anaheim An-
gels, the momentum that Joe Gi-
rardi and Co. let slip away Monday
could well come back and flatten
them.
The Angels rallied for a 5-4 win in
a terrific ball game that had just
about everything, including six ho-
mers — four solo shots by the Yan-
kees — and a back-up catcher com-
ing away the hero.
Jeff Mathis smoked a long double
with two out in the bottom of the
11th inning, what he called “the
biggest hit of my life,” to score Ho-
wie Kendrick as the Angels
matched the Yankees in every cat-
egory except power and over-
matched them decisively in the
manager’s office.
Girardi was running to his dugout
MARK J. TERRILL/AP binder like a high school kid, seek-
Angels’ Howie Kendrick achieves some altitude after scoring the winning run in the 11th inning vs. Yankees. ing out statistics and then march-
DAVE PERKINS
ing through his bullpen like he was
Joe Torre, or somebody. The trou-
ble with using seven relievers be-
hind a decent Andy Pettitte is that
one of them might be horsebleep
and if he is, goodbye ball game.
Alfredo Aceves turned out to be
just that, entering with two out
and nobody on, after David Rob-
ertson had retired both his hitters,
and promptly yielding a single to
Kendrick and the rocket to Mathis.
“As far as (removing) Robertson,
we liked the matchup with Ace
better,” Girardi said. “It’s just dif-
ferent kind of stuff against those
hitters and we have all the match-
ups and the scouting reports.
“And it didn’t work,” he added,
PERKINS continued on S4

Read Richard Griffin’s take on the NLCS, Dodgers vs. Phillies, on page S4 and at www.thestar.com/sports

Chan uses cutting-edge procedure to put hurt on injury

Platelet
therapy said
to shorten
healing time
RANDY STARKMAN
SPORTS REPORTER
No blood, no glory.
Toronto figure skater Patrick
Chan has expended some of his
own blood for the cause.
It is all part of a cutting-edge pro-
cedure used by athletes to jump-
start healing of their injuries.
Called platelet-rich plasma therapy
— or PRP — an athlete’s blood is
withdrawn, spun and concentrated
in a centrifuge before being re-in-
jected into the injured area.
Chan had the procedure done last
week, when Dr. Tony Galea used
PRP on Chan’s injured left calf.
Galea treated Steelers star receiv-
er Hines Ward with PRP before he
helped Pittsburgh win the Super
McCormack, chief medical officer
How platelet therapy works for the Canadian Olympic team,
Platelets in the blood are key to tissue healing.
PRP helps heal who uses PRP as team doctor with
tissue within the B.C. Lions.
In treatment using PRP (platelet rich plasma), high 2 mm to 5 mm
To start the process, blood is ex-
concentrations of platelets are injected into the of injection site
damaged tissue to speed the recovery process.
tracted from the athlete, and after
the blood is spun in the centrifuge,
3. Concen- it has a concentration of platelets
trated fluid of more than four times the normal
plasma and level.
platelets is Platelets move toward the injured
Plasma
injected into
Platelets damaged tissue.
area and initiate a healing response.
Fluid is up to 130 The idea is that by concentrating
White cells
times more 4. Platelets them and putting them into the in-
Red cells potent than contain the jured area, the healing process will
regular blood at growth factors be accelerated.
promoting and stem cells, Galea said there are four phases of
healing. which help healing when tissue gets hurt:
repair
1. 30 to 60 ml of 2. Blood is separated acute, inflammatory, proliferation
damaged tissue.
blood is collected into main components and maturation.
from patient’s vein. in a centrifuge. “When the platelets get into the
SOURCE: Centre for Integrated Medicine; University of British Columbia, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery CATHERINE FARLEY/TORONTO STAR tear they do what they do best,” said
Galea. “You’re taking those four
Bowl last year, has used it on former There’s a growing trend toward the science is not definitive, there’s phases of healing and shortening
Maple Leaf Gary Roberts and em- using PRP to treat athletes at all lev- a growing belief it is very effective. them, cutting them in half.”
ploys it extensively with the Toron- els. The process is non-invasive and “Its role is evolving as we continue
to Argonauts. usually takes under an hour. While to do research on it,” said Dr. Bob CHAN continued on S7

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