Dontari Poe will miss camp due to back injury

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by BigMeatballDave

Really? WTF does this have to do with the 'franchise'?

Well, the franchise continues to rely on mediocre QBs.

When you do that, losing your NT for a significant chunk of time has a greater impact.

Now the D is going to be worse...we'll give up more points...we have a mediocre QB behind a bad line trying to play catch up against Peyton Manning and Aaron Rodgers in the first 3 weeks...

I'm sure everything will work out just fine though.

Just for once I'd like to go into a season thinking "well that sucks but we have a badass QB and I'm sure he can carry the team through this."

[ToxSocks]

I just read that Chiefs' new rookie receiver Kenny Cook battled Lymphoma and came out on the winning end.

[mcaj22]

NFL lineman and bad backs is like 7 foot centers in the NBA and bad feet.

[ToxSocks]

Sounds like we're officially writing him off as damaged goods.

"throw him back in the pile, he's a blem"

[Titty Meat]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

Sounds like we're officially writing him off as damaged goods.

"throw him back in the pile, he's a blem"

At least they won't have to pay him Suh money now

[Chiefnj2]

NEW YORK – Professional football players, even those in the most physically punishing positions, can undergo back surgery and return to the gridiron, researchers at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine report in the American Journal of Sports Medicine.

"They aren't broken, they aren't more fragile after surgery," orthopedic surgeon and lead author Dr. Joseph K. Weistroffer told Reuters Health. "Four out of five who have surgery not only return to play, they return to starter positions."

Weistroffer and colleagues decided to look into how often National Football League linemen returned to play following surgery for a herniated disk after hearing a broadcaster declare a player "broken" and unlikely to play again after surgery.

Linemen tend to be the biggest, heaviest players on the team. Their responsibilities require a lot of crouching, twisting and pummeling on the field, putting tremendous stress on their backs.

Herniated disk - sometimes called a "slipped disk" occurs when soft cushioning disks between spinal vertebrae become displaced. The leaking disc material pressing on spinal nerves can produce intense back pain and numbness or tingling in arms or legs.

Among college football players, 15 percent to 50 percent of linemen suffer lower-back disk injuries including herniations.


To see how well elite NFL players fare, the researchers gathered information about linemen on team rosters between 1982 and 2009 from various sources including press reports, team injury reports, newspaper archives, team records and individual players' profiles. Only those NFL linemen diagnosed with a herniated disk in at least two independent sources and one official league injury report were included.

Of the 66 players included in the study, 14 were treated non-surgically and 52 treated with surgery. Of those treated surgically, 42 (81 percent) returned to play in at least one game, although most played an average of 33 games over 3 years.

The success of surgical treatment in NFL linemen was "significantly better than we expected," the authors write.

"What's remarkable is that many of these players not only returned to play, they returned to starter positions," Weistroffer said.

Of the players treated with surgery, 36 had been starters before their herniated disk diagnosis and 33 of them returned to that status after surgery.

In contrast, only four of the 14 players treated non-surgically returned to play. Weistroffer cautions against reading any significance into that fact. "The numbers are too small to draw conclusions from," he said.

Nonsurgical treatment for herniated disk usually includes muscle relaxers, pain killers and anti-inflammatory medications, and may involve cold compresses applied several times a day.
Surgery to open the back, clean out leaked disc material and stabilize the spine is a treatment of last resort, Weistroffer said.

"No surgery is the best option for everyone, including elite athletes," he said. "But if a herniated disc doesn't heal naturally, surgery may be an option" without branding a lineman as damaged for good.

The results of this study, the authors point out, cannot be generalized to the population at large.

Elite athletes have strong incentives to return to play including in some cases multi-million dollar contracts. In addition, elite athletes have significant resources available to help in rehab including "focused, well-trained professional staff dedicated to strength and conditioning."

Nevertheless, "if a NFL lineman can return to full activities, the average Joe has a good chance to get back on with their life if they don't heal naturally and decide to turn to surgery," Weistroffer said.

[saphojunkie]

Pretty sure that means preseason.

[Rasputin]

It took me a long time to recover from my back surgery but after five years doing much better. Best wishes Poe.

[O.city]

I bet he's back game 1

[TEX]

Originally Posted by O.city

I bet he's back game 1

I doubt it. I had the same condition and operation when I was 27. Took me about 2.5 months to fully recover. Its much harder on the big guys, and when you consider his line of work, Id bet there is no way he's ready week 1.

[Rausch]

Originally Posted by TEX

I doubt it. I had the same condition and operation when I was 27. Took me about 2.5 months to fully recover. Its much harder on the big guys, and when you consider his line of work, Id bet there is no way he's ready week 1.

I'm no doc but back/neck surgery has progressed greatly in just 10 years. Often you leave with a small scar about an inch...

[Brock]

Originally Posted by TEX

I doubt it. I had the same condition and operation when I was 27. Took me about 2.5 months to fully recover. Its much harder on the big guys, and when you consider his line of work, Id bet there is no way he's ready week 1.

He's an elite athlete with the best medical care on earth, and nothing to do but rehab and rest. It's a fair assumption that your experience means nothing.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by Brock

He's an elite athlete with the best medical care on earth, and nothing to do but rehab and rest. It's a fair assumption that your experience means nothing.

No disrespect intended, but I strongly disagree. Bottom line is he weighs more than 325lbs. My back discs, and yours, (and ANY HUMANS) are not genetically structured to carry that much weight. In fact, his discs are no stronger than yours or mine yet he carries much more weight. Weight, and being able to support it, is a huge factor in the recovery of a disc injury. Ask ANY back Dr. It's not so much my experience, as it is dealing with the medial facts of a herniated disc injury that make my statement a very fair assumption.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by TEX

I doubt it. I had the same condition and operation when I was 27. Took me about 2.5 months to fully recover. Its much harder on the big guys, and when you consider his line of work, Id bet there is no way he's ready week 1.

That makes me feel a lot better. If some random scrub on a KC message board can recover from this injury in a couple months, I bet an elite professional athlete has a good chance to do so in half the time.

[TEX]

Originally Posted by ThaVirus

That makes me feel a lot better. If some random scrub on a KC message board can recover from this injury in a couple months, I bet an elite professional athlete has a good chance to do so in half the time.

Nothing would make you feel better other than a lobotomy, but I'll bet you anything that it takes him at least the same amount of time, or longer, to FULLY recover AND NO WAY he plays, not even one snap, WEEK 1. You have no idea what you're commenting on, fool.