1.   He became a medical pioneer when Dr. Frank Jobe transplanted a tendon from his right arm to repair the damage.

2.   Still, in September of that year he underwent reconstructive surgery on his elbow, an operation in which a tendon was transplanted from his wrist.

3.   The soft-spoken Jobe rose to prominence when he came up with the radical idea of transplanting a tendon and wrapping it into an elbow ligament.

4.   Players such as Jose Canseco and Frank Viola have undergone the same procedure, in which a tendon is transplanted to replace the torn ligament.

5.   Smith will have a tendon transplanted from a wrist into the opposite elbow.