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.
99topdawg
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This. I played baseball in college and had coached for 21 years (threw thousands of BP pitches a year) and had shoulder surgery on my throwing shoulder. Shaved some "stuff" down, removed bone spurs, etc. Nothing major at all. Had it at 7:00 am on the first day of the NCAA BB tournament. Went back a week later and the surgeon was stunned that I could make a full arm circle. He said I'm the first shoulder patient that he's ever operated on didn't have to prescribe PT for. He said that, with all of the throwing I've done through the years, I have generated a lot of muscle support to help speed the healing. By the first of May, I was stupidly throwing BP. 12 years of coaching later, I haven't had a single issue with it since. It NEVER hurts. It is sometimes sore the next day like any set of muscles would be after overuse.
MG has mad tens of thousands of throws over his life and is obviously young, healthy, has a body that is made and developed to recover. There's a reason they call these top level athletes "freak". They do things good/great athletes can't because it's the way they're built/developed.
With the amount of money we spent, I have faith that it was well researched by medical staff.
He had the injury the entire season and played through it. He threw for 2700 yards, had 23 TD's and 7 ints. I'd take that. And as Fry said, Cade had a major leg injury. Completely different than this.
Fryowa
Administrator
That’s just nuts. I was in a sling with it strapped to my side for 8 weeks 24/7 and could only take it off for showering which they told me to do only every 2-3 days. Said I couldn’t use my arm when it was off, only let it hang there.
My PT was brutally painful. Was tapered down on Oxy for like the first month, don’t think I could’ve done it without and that’s also when I found out how good it made me feel, haven’t taken opioids since and won’t again unless something crazy happens lol.
I did get a tens unit off Amazon at home after they used it on me in PT and it was amazing. I must be built different because I went straight to full power right off the bat and loved it. My PT guy started at the lower settings and said something like, “Tell me when it gets uncomfortable and I’ll back it off…” I get telling him to bump it up and eventually I hit max power like Spinal Tap. I was a little bummed cause it didn’t go to 11
Maybe our surgeries were different or I’m a pansy. I’m probably a pansy.
All I know is that shoulder is better than my “stock” one 13 years later. I do feel weather changes though, which after years of thinking it was bullshit turns out to have a lot of research saying it’s real.
