Randy Thomas

[Monkeydad]

I've had several surgeries involving a lot of screws, plates and pins (4 surgeries). You have to take it slow and even when the bone is fully healed and grown around the metal, you'll need a few months to start weight-bearing activities and work your way up to your previous abilities little-by-little. After the required months of doing nothing with the affected body part, your muscle will be down to nothing and besides being careful not to break the bone from stress, you'll need some time to build your strength back up.

He won't be ready for the preseason or first half of the season unless he does out there with one weaker leg and a chance to re-injure it.

A year sounds fair, expect him back in the second half if not closer to playoff time.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Buster

I've had several surgeries involving a lot of screws, plates and pins (4 surgeries). You have to take it slow and even when the bone is fully healed and grown around the metal, you'll need a few months to start weight-bearing activities and work your way up to your previous abilities little-by-little. After the required months of doing nothing with the affected body part, your muscle will be down to nothing and besides being careful not to break the bone from stress, you'll need some time to build your strength back up.

He won't be ready for the preseason or first half of the season unless he does out there with one weaker leg and a chance to re-injure it.

A year sounds fair, expect him back in the second half if not closer to playoff time.

No offense but I'm sure his treatments and rehab are much more intensive than anything you received, and he'll be closely monitored by the team's medical staff.

By the start of the season he'll be 9 months out from the injury, sounds like he should be ready to go by this article.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

No offense but I'm sure his treatments and rehab are much more intensive than anything you received, and he'll be closely monitored by the team's medical staff.

By the start of the season he'll be 9 months out from the injury, sounds like he should be ready to go by this article.

No offense taken, but they can't make bone regenerate any faster in his body than in anyone else's. Also, with him weighing a couple hundred more than me, the weight-bearing will need to be taken more carefully early on.

I'd LOVE to see him back earlier than I said, but I don't want him to risk injury to come back sooner.

You could be right about him being ready to go early in the season, but I don't think he'll be playing at all in the preseason.

[mheisig]

Originally Posted by Buster

No offense taken, but they can't make bone regenerate any faster in his body than in anyone else's. Also, with him weighing a couple hundred more than me, the weight-bearing will need to be taken more carefully early on.

I'd LOVE to see him back earlier than I said, but I don't want him to risk injury to come back sooner.

You could be right about him being ready to go early in the season, but I don't think he'll be playing at all in the preseason.

Actually, they probably can. Many athletes have regular access to or have purchased their own hyperbaric chambers, which have been proven to regenerate bone faster than normal, in addition to a number of other healing capabilities.

Terrell Owens had a severe ankle sprain and fractured fibula on December 19th, 2004 and then had something like 9 catches for 122 yards in the Super Bowl on February 4th, 2005, roughly six weeks later. The doctors, and everyone else for that matter said it was basically impossible to recover from that injury that fast. I saw an interview with TO later where he basically gave the credit to his recovery to the hyperbaric chamber that he basically lived in for 6 weeks before the Super Bowl.

So, from a certain standpoint, wealthy athletes, or at least people who have access to hyperbaric chambers, CAN regenerate bone faster.

[TheInspector]

Originally Posted by Buster

No offense taken, but they can't make bone regenerate any faster in his body than in anyone else's. Also, with him weighing a couple hundred more than me, the weight-bearing will need to be taken more carefully early on.

I'd LOVE to see him back earlier than I said, but I don't want him to risk injury to come back sooner.

You could be right about him being ready to go early in the season, but I don't think he'll be playing at all in the preseason.

I agree. I think it'd be foolish to play him in the preseason.