Athletes and Injuries

Have you ever though about the medical attention professional athlete's receive for any type of injury.  Athlete's make millions of dollars and receive excessive medical attention for every cut, ache an pain, and broken bone; to keep them in good health to keep them in the game.  This is a major league baseball pitcher who had sever elbow pain, I wonder why.  So can you image the amount of x-ray images that were taken by the teams medical staff. And possibly more images taken if there was a second or third opinion on the diagnosis.

Another example is Xavier Nady a outfielder of the New York Yankees, who had major shoulder pain, received two MRI, two x-ray images, and a CT scan all with in three days time.  Do you think he possible received an excessive amount of radiation, just in try to get him back on the field as soon as possible.