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Patriots Injury Thoughts from Week 1
- re: Derek Rivers, Julian Edelman, and Cyrus Jones "I suspect the reason that ACL tears are so common in the NFL is that athletes are getting stronger and cutting harder and ACLs are staying the same size. Lots of stress on a little ligament means more non-contact ligament tears."
- re: Malcolm Mitchell " In college, Mitchell had an ACL tear in college and underwent ACL reconstruction. A year later he had a second arthroscopic procedure to “repair cartilage” in the same knee. Meniscus tears are common with ACL injuries so the cartilage repaired could have been the meniscus. The other possibility is that Mitchell has articular cartilage problems in that knee (focal arthritis)...I think that this is most likely an acute on chronic cartilage issue. It seems that conservative treatments have not allowed him to reliably be on the field so either a prolonged period of rest (with steroid inj, PRP, etc) or knee surgery are not out of the question."
- re: Danny Amendola and Dont’a Hightower "Amendola took what looked like a knee to the head during a punt return and left in the 4th quarter with a head injury. The team has GOT to find a way to preserve Amendola. . . .Hightower is clearly being asked to play a new role on the Patriots’ relatively shaky front 7. The Pats need to proceed with caution – it seems unreasonable that they will be able to lean as heavily on the ILB turned DE’s hobbled shoulders this season."
- re: Rob Gronkowski "Gronk has had 3 major spine surgeries. He is patently slow to start every season. After a 3rd spine surgery I would not expect Gronk to be 100% from the start. He’s working with Alex Guerrero and reportedly looks a little slimmer to some – that’s a good thing. Gronk is huge enough. In fact, that’s part of his problem. Improvement in flexibility of his hip flexors, spine muscles (and scar tissue from the surgery) as well as hamstrings and other muscles can do nothing but help to take some stress off of what is likely an arthritic/chronically injured spine. . ."
Patriots Injury Thoughts from Week 1
- re: Derek Rivers, Julian Edelman, and Cyrus Jones "I suspect the reason that ACL tears are so common in the NFL is that athletes are getting stronger and cutting harder and ACLs are staying the same size. Lots of stress on a little ligament means more non-contact ligament tears."
- re: Malcolm Mitchell " In college, Mitchell had an ACL tear in college and underwent ACL reconstruction. A year later he had a second arthroscopic procedure to “repair cartilage” in the same knee. Meniscus tears are common with ACL injuries so the cartilage repaired could have been the meniscus. The other possibility is that Mitchell has articular cartilage problems in that knee (focal arthritis)...I think that this is most likely an acute on chronic cartilage issue. It seems that conservative treatments have not allowed him to reliably be on the field so either a prolonged period of rest (with steroid inj, PRP, etc) or knee surgery are not out of the question."
- re: Danny Amendola and Dont’a Hightower "Amendola took what looked like a knee to the head during a punt return and left in the 4th quarter with a head injury. The team has GOT to find a way to preserve Amendola. . . .Hightower is clearly being asked to play a new role on the Patriots’ relatively shaky front 7. The Pats need to proceed with caution – it seems unreasonable that they will be able to lean as heavily on the ILB turned DE’s hobbled shoulders this season."
- re: Rob Gronkowski "Gronk has had 3 major spine surgeries. He is patently slow to start every season. After a 3rd spine surgery I would not expect Gronk to be 100% from the start. He’s working with Alex Guerrero and reportedly looks a little slimmer to some – that’s a good thing. Gronk is huge enough. In fact, that’s part of his problem. Improvement in flexibility of his hip flexors, spine muscles (and scar tissue from the surgery) as well as hamstrings and other muscles can do nothing but help to take some stress off of what is likely an arthritic/chronically injured spine. . ."