Castrale hopes to rebound after injury-plagued season

The Desert Sun wrote an article about LPGA player Nicole Castrale’s return to the course after suffering an injury in the 2010 season, which resulted in surgery on her left shoulder. Brett Fischer and Fischer Sports have helped Castrale get back to playing, and were featured in the article.

“Last season I was maybe 20 percent (in her shoulder). That’s how bad I was,” Castrale said. “My shoulder was literally just hanging on. Right now Brett (Fischer of Fischer Sports physical therapy clinic in Phoenix) figures I’m about 83 percent. I laughed. Eighty percent was safe to start practicing. Eight-five percent is you don’t have really much pain at all, you are pretty strong. We are gaining on it.”

Fischer and his staff in Phoenix were in charge of Castrale’s rehabilitation, with the Castrales spending weekdays in Phoenix for four months and returning to their Palm Desert home only on weekends. While Castrale says she wouldn’t be ready to play golf now without the work of Fischer and his staff, the rehabilitation left her “feeling like I had been hit by a bus.”

“My whole goal those four months was not to tell Brett and his staff that it was too much,” Castrale said. “There were times that I wanted to cry or I thought I was going to throw up, but I kept telling myself this is going to make me stronger in the end.”

Read the entire article on MyDesert.com.