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Dr. Andrew Hecht: “Swing Guru and Doctors Question Tiger Woods’ Future”

  • New York Daily News
  • (February 06, 2015)

Outside of his personal life, nothing much is going right for Tiger Woods. How’s that for a change? Those dreaded back spasms returned to force another withdrawal from the Farmers Insurance Open on Thursday, leaving his future open to speculation. Never before has it been this much in doubt. “It’s a game that requires tremendous amounts of swing velocity. The forces on the spine from violent twisting motion are extraordinary,” said Andrew Hecht, MD, Chief of Spine Surgery and Director of the Spine Center at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Learn more