Anyone have a Suggs update?

[TheJoeFlaccoShow]

A Brit who one gold at the Olympics in the triathlon torn his achilles in march, returned and won gold i August. 5 months. He would have been training for a month or two at least before that. So he fully healed to be the best triathlete in the world in three months give or take.

Link please.

[Cj34]

You can't take 2 seconds to Google it? Lmao


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/triathlon/17141223

http://www.sbnation.com/london-olymp...-medal-results

[TheJoeFlaccoShow]

You can't take 2 seconds to Google it? Lmao


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/triathlon/17141223

http://www.sbnation.com/london-olymp...-medal-results

He never had surgery, it was a minor tear that was allowed to heal itself.

The 23-year-old from Yorkshire must now wear a protective boot for a month.

"If I can get this boot off quite quickly and get training, I can get myself fit in time [for the Olympics]," Brownlee told the Metro newspaper.

Brownlee is expected to compete next at the San Diego World Triathlon Series event in May.

Malcolm Brown, one of Brownlee's personal coaches and British Triathlon's Olympic performance group manager, said: "Alistair has a small tear in his left Achilles tendon and is wearing an air cast as a precaution.

"He is swimming every day, and will train on a static bike today. He has been doing some light running, but now that he's wearing the cast, we will allow the Achilles to repair before resuming light running again, hopefully within the next 10 days.

Apples and oranges.

Keep looking. I mean the internet has everything documented in the world for the last 10 years or so, so surely you can find at least ONE person out of the hundreds of athletes who have suffered this injury.

Or maybe not.

[tsizzle55]

That "timetable" was Suggs wildly optimistic, day after injury statement. The team made no such comment, and neither did any doctor because they would never make such a ridiculous statement. And a week later Suggs backed off that statement, when he realized he wasn't Superman and no human has EVER come back from this injury in that amount of time. Go find me someone if you don't believe it. Anyone, any sport. Never happened.

While you are at it google NFL players achilles tear and see what comes up. Look at how long it was from the injury date until they got back. It was 8-10 months in every single case, and there were plenty to choose from. (I think I found about 10 or so when I looked before)

And we went over this before in another thread, there is no difference in a full or partial tear. It is the same surgery to fix it, same recovery time. A long time.

The best case scenario is he comes back for the last couple games and playoffs, but then the question is how effective is he going to be?? No contact, no real football action for 8 months just running in shorts.

Anything we get from Suggs this year is gravy. If you expect anything substantial you are just setting yourself up for a letdown.

Maybe he will defy all odds, and become the first person on the earth to miraculously recover in a time that was before not humanly possibly. I mean it could happen I guess, and I would love to be wrong but the odds of that are slim.

Former Raven Wally Williams did it, so it is possible. (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/201...chilles-tendon )

[TheJoeFlaccoShow]

Former Raven Wally Williams did it, so it is possible. (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/201...chilles-tendon )

Good catch, nice work.

Williams, though, was an offensive lineman. Suggs is an outside linebacker/defensive end. There is more change of direction needed for pass rushing specialists like Suggs, who has 82.5 career sacks.

He has to come hard off the corner because power and quickness in that first step is a major advantage. Last year, Suggs had a career-high 14 sacks and was named the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year.

Can he regain that form?

"I was a quick, fast guard and I had a strong lower power game," Williams said. "With the injury, I thought all of that had been compromised. I actually came back and was on the scout team a month before I started the first game."

That is still 1 out of hundreds, if not more.

So we have found one remarkable, best case scenario and it still took 6.5 months to return. Not to mention the fact that on Oline you aren't driving into opponents pushing off, you are keeping them at bay with your footwork for the most part.

Anyone else?

[leachisabeast]

Didn't Demaryius Thomas completely tear his Achilles in 2011, but was activated in September 2011? I know that it took him a while to get up to full speed, but it didn't stop him from making that huge run against the Steelers in the play offs.

That was 7 months of recovery for Thomas, and that was with a full tear, and everything I'm reading about partial tears, nearly all the research is telling me 4-6 months until you can get back to competing again. It's around 3 months to get back to normal activity.

[Captain Silver]

Okay, my wife former professional ballerina (top of her game) and has seen her fair share of Achilles tears. She is now a massage therapist and has worked on many people who have had the injury. I asked her her opinion on this, I should have asked her sooner.

She said a partial tear is far better to have than a full for obvious reasons, but primarily because the length of the tendon and ability for the muscle to stretch will not be compromised after the surgery. The area will heal and perform much the way it did. Additionally, it will heal faster.

Now all you guys can post all the links you want and post ghost doctor reports till the cows come home, but she said Suggs should be fully recovered in 6-8 months and I believe her. Judging by his athletic prowess and conditioning, she believes he would be ready on the lower end of that spectrum, if not before, but do to the nature of the game and getting in football shape, the time table of November is likely accurate.

[The Excellector]

November would be a bonus. If he could get some games under his belt before Pittsburgh, that would be great.

[GOTA]

Okay, my wife former professional ballerina (top of her game) and has seen her fair share of Achilles tears. She is now a massage therapist and has worked on many people who have had the injury. I asked her her opinion on this, I should have asked her sooner.

She said a partial tear is far better to have than a full for obvious reasons, but primarily because the length of the tendon and ability for the muscle to stretch will not be compromised after the surgery. The area will heal and perform much the way it did. Additionally, it will heal faster.

Now all you guys can post all the links you want and post ghost doctor reports till the cows come home, but she said Suggs should be fully recovered in 6-8 months and I believe her. Judging by his athletic prowess and conditioning, she believes he would be ready on the lower end of that spectrum, if not before, but do to the nature of the game and getting in football shape, the time table of November is likely accurate.

You're right..... you should have asked her sooner :)

Anytime in November would be great. One thing about Suggs is that he is going to be working his ass off to get back in there. Whatever rehab he has to go through he's going to give 110% doing it.

[The Excellector]

Whether it is Albert McClellan or Courtney Upshaw who is the starter, both that person and Kruger will be taking more snaps than they are accustomed to. Having Suggs back late in the season could really help, in the case that one of them needs more of a breather.

[Lee Van Cleef]

I heard his ankle fell off. Could be a bad source though.

[Ravenswintitle]

I heard his ankle fell off. Could be a bad source though.

as good as the others in the thread ;)