This is especially important since recipients of care services suffer from chronic disease or injury that often requires complex medical interventions.
At least half of the damage, however, occurs hours later, as the initial injury sets off a complex and poorly understood chemical cascade that disables surrounding cells.
Private Health is designed to backfill these gaps whenever one of its patients has a medical emergency or complex condition, say, a traumatic brain injury or newly diagnosed cancer.
But Teixeira, on his return to the Yankee complex, said that he actually has a partially torn tendon sheath, a more ominous injury that has felled several stars in the past few years.