deters

Healing rates of children are faster than adults. Young adults also heal faster than older adults. A 23 year old doesn't heal at the same rate as a 31 year old man. The 23 year old has higher growth hormone thus healing faster. This is a known and proven fact.

Just because both are "adults" doesn't mean they will heal at equal time. Age has a major role in the healing process.

MassPats38

Weren't you byatching about the offense not closing games out, and now they do close out a game and you byatch some more? And didn't you say how awful this defense was, incapable of protecting a lead?

Belichick trains this team to go 60 minutes. The game environment against an opposing team represents a unique opportunity for team development, but football play involves some risk of injury. It is the reason preseason includes practices with other teams. Belichick is infinitely more intelligent than you are in terms of winning games and strategies to do so. The injury was a freak injury. Deal with it.

deters

Of course not, but i was playing football again after three weeks. That's how I broke it in the first place.

Bone breaks heal back stronger than before. If he healed in 4 weeks he could play in the 5th.

Sweet Chin Music33

Funny. I remember fluke plays, the defense....and dropped passes being the reasons why we lost those Superbowls.

ensoul

First off this sucks. Second I am not a Doctor and I don't know the extent of this injury. What I do know is that my 7 year old son broke his forearm over the summer falling off a fence. He had a cast on up to to his tricep and it took six weeks to heal. No way Gronk comes back in 3-4 weeks. It is not like you can rehab a broken arm and there is nothing that can be done to speed up the healing process. Seems to be the best case is that he comes back for the playoffs if the pats make them.

Deus Irae

Your claim was that the 8 years would make a "big difference". Here's an orthopedic site with some breakdown....

Bone Fracture Healing | Orthoped

So, in other words, the orthopedics that you mentioned as your "knowledge" don't seem to be buying your position.

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IcyPatriot

Looks like Thursday will be Julian Edelowski day.

lamafist

My understanding is that once your bones have stopped growing -- usually in your late teens -- your rate of healing tails off, and stays pretty much the same until you reach the geriatric stage.

JMarr

Haha this is priceless, just getting better and better. You don't think Gronk's injury had anything to do with last year's loss?

Pewsterbaby

Maybe you could brew up some forearm bone stem cells and lure Gronkenstein to your laboratory in the abandoned windmill then. All you need is an electrical storm and voila, miraculous recovery.
(gawd, some people will make up anything to bolster their credibility.)