SwirlinLingerie
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Jesus - it never ends with this position at Iowa. Couldn't we have like one whole fun week? Having surgery, hopes to be ready by June.
Gronowski has a bad shoulder - out until June
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HuckFinn
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Well. That truly sucks.
Glass1/2fullguy
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More reps for Hank brown to see what he’s got. I think they know what they have in mark. Then again that’s what we all thought regarding Cade.
SCHawkeye2
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It's like deja vu all over again.
Fryowa
Administrator
You know there’s a reason no one on the staff mentioned it before signing the kid up.
CM all over again and they didn’t want that.
Fryowa
Administrator
Also, here’s my take which before you flame me remember how much you paid for it…
KF said “common football-related shoulder injury.”
That can be a rotator cuff, but by far the most common one is a torn labrum. It comes from falling on it or jamming your elbow on it during a fall usually. That’s what happened to me and I’ve had the surgery. My surgeon in Sioux Falls was the same guy who did Jared Allen’s back when he was with the Vikings, among a whole bunch of others.
Here’s what I’ll say…
My surgery went well, was laparoscopic, and I stuck to my PT regimen religiously. Never missed an appointment, and did ALL of the exercises every day exactly the way my PT wanted me to. Used a tens unit 3 times a day on full blast and it helped immensely with pain.
It was in my left (non-dominant) shoulder which I don’t throw with, and 12 years later the shoulder I had operated on is miles better than my other one which is shredded from years of playing/coaching baseball & throwing probably hundreds of thousands of 40 mph batting practice pitches. My left shoulder is great. My surgeon told me that a labrum repair basically tightens up your shoulder joint back to the condition it was in as a toddler before you wear it out as an adult, which is also why ROM and PT is so painful for the first couple months. I had a great experience other than the pain and inconvenience while rehabbing, and I sure as hell didn’t have the youth, body, and army of trainers that these guys do. If I could randomly have the same thing done to my right shoulder I would. I have no pain, no lost ROM, and no arthritis which I’m pretty sure I have in my left.
So…
If it’s a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder this will be zero issue once he heals. If it’s his throwing shoulder it will take a bit to get back to full speed and the only grey area is that he only has one year left. Either shoulder should be golden in two years but we don’t have that much time. My guess is that with the PT resources Iowa football has he will probably be fine.
A knee, ankle, hip injury…fogeddaboutit. He’s cooked. Shoulder? Should be good to go.
KF said “common football-related shoulder injury.”
That can be a rotator cuff, but by far the most common one is a torn labrum. It comes from falling on it or jamming your elbow on it during a fall usually. That’s what happened to me and I’ve had the surgery. My surgeon in Sioux Falls was the same guy who did Jared Allen’s back when he was with the Vikings, among a whole bunch of others.
Here’s what I’ll say…
My surgery went well, was laparoscopic, and I stuck to my PT regimen religiously. Never missed an appointment, and did ALL of the exercises every day exactly the way my PT wanted me to. Used a tens unit 3 times a day on full blast and it helped immensely with pain.
It was in my left (non-dominant) shoulder which I don’t throw with, and 12 years later the shoulder I had operated on is miles better than my other one which is shredded from years of playing/coaching baseball & throwing probably hundreds of thousands of 40 mph batting practice pitches. My left shoulder is great. My surgeon told me that a labrum repair basically tightens up your shoulder joint back to the condition it was in as a toddler before you wear it out as an adult, which is also why ROM and PT is so painful for the first couple months. I had a great experience other than the pain and inconvenience while rehabbing, and I sure as hell didn’t have the youth, body, and army of trainers that these guys do. If I could randomly have the same thing done to my right shoulder I would. I have no pain, no lost ROM, and no arthritis which I’m pretty sure I have in my left.
So…
If it’s a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder this will be zero issue once he heals. If it’s his throwing shoulder it will take a bit to get back to full speed and the only grey area is that he only has one year left. Either shoulder should be golden in two years but we don’t have that much time. My guess is that with the PT resources Iowa football has he will probably be fine.
A knee, ankle, hip injury…fogeddaboutit. He’s cooked. Shoulder? Should be good to go.
