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10-02-2012, 02:36 PM #37
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
I found this article online. I apologize if it has already been posted. It doesn't sound encouraging.
Of the 31 players who sustained an Achilles tendon rupture, 21 (64%) returned to play in the NFL at an average of 11 months after injury. In the three seasons following their return, those 21 players saw significant decreases in games played and power ratings compared to the three seasons preceding the injury.
The percentage of players returning to play at the NFL level is consistent with a meta-analysis performed by Bhandari4 in 2002. The authors reported return to function rates of 63% for patients treated nonoperatively and 71% for those treated operatively. If we assume that all the NFL players were treated operatively, as would be the standard for young athletes, the return to play rate of 64% is slightly lower than the 71% reported in the meta-analysis. This difference could be attributed to the excessive demands placed on the operatively repaired Achilles tendon in NFL players combined with a body size, strength, and explosiveness that would further increase these demands.
The length of time to allow full activity after Achilles tendon repair is generally thought to be four to six months.4-6 The 11 months needed to return to play as a professional football player seems considerably longer. However, there is a major difference between allowing full activity and returning to play in the NFL. Even when the typical patient is allowed to participate in full activity, it does not mean that he or she is adequately rehabilitated to perform at maximal efforts. Studies to determine maximal improvement after surgical treatment are lacking in the orthopedic literature.
http://lowerextremityreview.com/arti...tendon-rupture
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
Wow how in the hell do you find that?? Great find and some more FACTS that people want to ignore. It is even worse than I estimated, much worse matter of fact.
Any questions people? Go ahead and run your traps now. Tell me how little I know again.
And Suggs is gonna play in 6.5 months?? LOL.Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/#!/thenflanalyst
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
LOL now you are trying to back out. What is Suggs worth playing less than 25% of the defensive snaps? There is zero chance you can win if he goes in for 2 plays and comes out immediately. It won't be some "other" injury. 15 snaps is a more than fair number.
I insta called the second you shoved your chips in the middle.
I bet that last post Dirt made got you a little bit scared no?
Let's put some money on it as well if you want to play games. How about that? Name your price.Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/#!/thenflanalyst
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10-02-2012, 03:06 PM #41
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
I think you missed my point. 5-7 months is the standard for an ACL now. When Woodson did it all those years ago it wasn't. Back then ACL meant season over. Changes happen, Suggs could be the first like Woodson was. I'll admit it's unlikely but stranger things have happened.
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
Last edited by Captain Silver; 10-02-2012 at 05:50 PM.
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
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Re: Suggs on Track for Return This Season
No I said find one example of a high level athlete coming back in less than 8 months, which would be late December. (Gonna be hard because that athlete does not exist). Any sport, had bad enough achilles injury to require surgery. Pretty simple, you have the entire internet at your disposal.
That is when I said the earliest he would come back in, late December. Not that he would not play at all this year.Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/#!/thenflanalyst
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