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Three days after the garage, Coach Brentwood called a full-team medical review.
It was routine. Every six weeks, the training staff ran each player through a battery of physical assessments. Range of motion. Grip strength. Joint stability. The results went into the medical file, the medical file went to Coach, and Coach used it to make lineup decisions. Standard procedure. I had done twenty of these in my career.
I had never walked into one with a torn rotator cuff and progressive nerve damage in my left arm.
The training room was bright and cold and smelled like rubbing alcohol and athletic tape. Players cycled through in pairs, stripped to compression shorts, while the training staff ran them through the stations. Grip dynamometer. Shoulder flexion. Rotation tests. Everything me
