Correa resumes baseball activities, Buxton progressing well following collision
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MINNEAPOLIS -- Carlos Correa is progressing well in his recovery from a concussion and has begun a variety of baseball activities, Twins head athletic trainer Nick Paparesta said Wednesday. Byron Buxton, who collided with Correa last week, is a little behind Correa in his concussion recovery, but is also progressing.
Both players are on the 7-day concussion injured list following a collision in Baltimore on May 15, after which they were both diagnosed with concussions. Correa was scheduled to hit off a pitching machine and has begun taking groundballs, while the plan for Buxton was for him to begin baseball activities on Wednesday.
Paparesta said that Correa’s symptoms are “basically all completely gone,” allowing him to advance his activities.
“He’ll have another evaluation today by Dr. [David] Olson here and then we will move towards the next steps of Major League Baseball. He would need to pass an ImPACT test, which is a concussion assessment test before he can get approved to come off the concussion IL at that point in time,” Paparesta said. “We’re still a few, a couple days away from that, just as far as the procedures and protocols that we need to get done but from a baseball standpoint, we’re in a good spot.”
It is Correa’s first concussion, while Buxton has dealt with the injury before, which can affect the recovery process. Neither player is permitted to give interviews while they are on the concussion IL.
“Any time you’ve had a previous concussion, you’re a little bit more susceptible to another concussion or worse symptoms from that concussion so he’s taking a little bit longer to move progressively,” Paparesta said. “But today we’re going to start some baseball stuff with him, which is a great sign. We’ll just see every day how he responds to that. The process is just kind of implement more things, get up the heart rate, get them doing more things, seeing baseballs coming at them and then determine the symptoms on a daily basis.”