Bruschi starts the season????? - Page 3 - New England Patriots Forums

RoughingthePasser · 08-13-2006, 12:02 PM

He'll be back for Miami @ home.

sarge · 08-13-2006, 12:08 PM

I guess I haven't been foloowing this one closely enough (just got back form vacation), but do we know for sure what bone it was he broke?

PatsFanInVa · 08-13-2006, 12:09 PM

My love puppet, who use to work ER and ambulance calls, says 6-8 weeks like any other bone... but adds "any time you put something foreign in it's gonna take longer than a normal broken bone" when I mentioned the screw.

Doesn't sound like it'll be before 6 weeks.

PFnV

RayClay · 08-13-2006, 12:25 PM

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Originally Posted by sarge

I guess I haven't been foloowing this one closely enough (just got back form vacation), but do we know for sure what bone it was he broke?

Scaphoid bone. Peanut sized bone in the wrist.

RayClay · 08-13-2006, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by MoLewisrocks

Does it say anywhere on those sites that any information they offer is "absolute"? No, I didn't think so.

The vast majority of athletes treated by sports orthopedists are weekend warriors, not to mention patients like my 70 year old aunt who shattered her heel and who has also had multiple knee surgeries, who go to sports medicine practitioners because they tend to do a better job of restoring mobility. The poor bastids who have to factor her into their prognostications are screwed. If she can't take a pill for it it ain't getting better because she is rehab aversive.

You might recall earlier this season there were prognostications that indicated that an individual recovering from face plant reconstruction that required plates and screws and involved upper and lower jaw as well as orbital bone fractures would not be cleared for contact for 6 months. Only bionic Ben shattered that myth last night. Just like Culpepper and Brees and Noodle all returned to the field months before the injuries they suffered should have allowed them to according to all the sites I Google.

Tedy was very careful and conservative with his return last season. The one most sites and experts said would never happen. If he says he'll be back for the season opener, I wouldn't question him. And I wouldn't expect he'd be too far off in his estimation - like maybe week 2-3 at most.

I think the doctor's know more about how long this bone takes to heal than Tedy, but what do I know?

Maybe he studies orthopedics in his spare time.

sarge · 08-13-2006, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RayClay

Scaphoid bone. Peanut sized bone in the wrist.

Wow. I was shocked that the Pats were more specific then just an extremety injured.

This is unprecedented that they got that much in detail about the injury

spacecrime · 08-13-2006, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by RayClay

Not according to any medical sites I've seen.

Google "scaphoid bone" and tell me the site that says 4 weeks.

These are preseumbly the same sites that said Palmer, Culpepper and Harrison would not be ready to play for a least a year?

Don't put too much credence in WebMD. They are predicting recovery time for the average American, ie, couch potato. They are not addressing a professional athlete with the world's best injury rehab program, an athlete who is willing to rehab all day, every day.

spacecrime · 08-13-2006, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by RayClay

I guess if you only read what you want, then modify it, you can convince yourself of anything.

But you can't convince a difficult to heal bone to heal faster.

Of course you can heal a bone faster than a website says you can. If TO believed what was written about him, he wouldn't have played in the Superbowl.

As far as modifying what you read on the internet, you have to. You have to consider the assumptions built into the article, and who it was written about and why, and if it isn't the exact situation you are dealing with, then taking everything written on the internet as gospel is not the way to go.

Carson Palmer would not even be walking yet if what was written about him on the internet last February were true.

If you or I broke that wrist bone, year, I'm sure it would be a minimum of six weeks before either of us could effectively shed NFL centers and guards and tackle TJ Duckett. For us the six weeks is real. It ain't necessarily so for Bruschi. It might be, but there is no minimum time for Bruschi to heal to be determined by googling the internet.

RayClay · 08-13-2006, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by spacecrime

These are preseumbly the same sites that said Palmer, Culpepper and Harrison would not be ready to play for a least a year?

Don't put too much credence in WebMD. They are predicting recovery time for the average American, ie, couch potato. They are not addressing a professional athlete with the world's best injury rehab program, an athlete who is willing to rehab all day, every day.

You can presume what you will.

I quoted Dr. Morgan from Tomases article extensively. That article had some disturbing scenarios a responsible team physician might take into account.

These guys seem pretty well versed and the second one wrote a book on hand surgery.

If someone has contradictory evidence from a sports Orthopedic specialist I'd love to hear it.

http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp03000.htm

Or I could just say a bunch of stuff because I'm on the interenet.

Brady-To-Branch · 08-13-2006, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by RayClay

You can presume what you will.

I quoted Dr. Morgan from Tomases article extensively. That article had some disturbing scenarios a responsible team physician might take into account.

These guys seem pretty well versed and the second one wrote a book on hand surgery.

If someone has contradictory evidence from a sports Orthopedic specialist I'd love to hear it.

http://www.arthroscopy.com/sp03000.htm

Ray,

I agree. Tedy shouldn't rush back. He should return when he's 100%. The PUP would give Bruschi the time he needs and free up a roster spot in the process.