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Column: Hamilton loses season to wrong diagnosis
Clayton Hamilton felt the persistent pain in his lower side for more than a year. The Pittsburgh Pirates doctors and trainers kept telling the right-handed pitching prospect that he had a strained oblique muscle, which has become the baseball injury of the 2000s. They told him to rest and it would get better. [...] The pain is still there and will cause Hamilton to miss the remainder of ...
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Broken Rib or Strained Oblique? Don't Ask the Pirates Medical Staff
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