Keith Meister, a Texas-based orthopedic surgeon, performs sophisticated elbow surgeries known as hybrid surgeries on baseball pitchers. These procedures involve repairing the ulnar collateral ligament by using tendons and synthetic fibers, enhancing traditional techniques developed in the 1970s. Meister documents every surgery meticulously, taking numerous photographs to analyze injury patterns. He operates on multiple pitchers daily during the busy season, just before and after the start of the major league baseball season, though the exact reasons for the high incidence of injuries during this time remain a subject of research.
Meister takes fifteen to twenty photographs of every case he does, helping him evaluate and treat injury tear patterns in a more logical way.
Meister performs surgery on seven pitchers' elbows daily during the 'busy season' as they are most statistically likely to need elbow surgeries.
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