Chapman's Rehabilitation Therapy has Already Begun After Monday's surgery

All-Star third baseman Matt Chapman, who had surgery on both his right and femur, on Monday, began his rehab work Tuesday in Vail, Colo. where he'll be for the next two weeks. He's expected to need four months to fully recover.

Oakland third baseman Matt Chapman began his first day of injury rehabilitation Tuesday, just 24 hours after having surgery on his right labrum and femur.

A’s trainer Nick Paparesta said Chapman, who is under the immediate care of Dr. Marc Philippon in Vail, Colo. will remain in Colorado for the next two weeks and will needed about four months’ worth of rehab so the A’s fully expect him to be ready for the 2021 season when spring training rolls around.

“They repaired the labrum of his hip,” Paparesta said. “They did a little bit of cleanup regarding his femoral head and the shaft of the hip bone, but everything else was great, and he’s recovering well from that.

“But obviously we have plenty of time before spring training, so once we get him into spring training, we’ll get him through out progression program for his running, then the baseball activities and see where we are at that point.”

Paparesta, who has been having a running text conversation with Chapman, said the third base “is doing fine.”

“He’s going to physical therapy; they start right away with him there. This isn’t Matthew’s first surgery, so I think he’s got a pretty good sense of what it takes to get back and rehab. He’s got a good facility of people he works with in Southern California.”

Chapman had been feeling some pain in his right hip for a good chunk of the season, but it wasn’t until he made a spinning throw Sept. 6 against the Padres that it flared up to the point where he had to come out of the game.

Paparesta was asked if the procedure used on Chapman was similar to that of Mark Canha in 2016. The trainer said that Dr. Philippon compared the Chapman work to that done on A’s starting pitcher Sean Manaea in 2013, just after he’d been drafted by Kansas City

“This is going back into a time machine,” Paparesta said. “Sean, in his junior year, got drafted in the first round by the Royals. The next day he went to see Philippon and had his hip repaired. His hip was similar to what Matthew’s was (and) not quite what Mark’s was.”

The early diagnosis for Chapman was right hip tendinitis, but that was upgraded after Philippon, a longtime hip specialist favored by professional athletes, offered his second opinion last week.

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