Dontari Poe will miss camp due to back injury

[RunKC]

@DannyParkins: Dontari Poe will miss training camp. #Chiefs

@ChiefsReporter: Dontari Poe will be resting until after #ChiefsCamp. Won't participate in team practices.

@pgsween: #Chiefs DT Dontari Poe had a herniated disk in his back and had successful surgery on July 15. He is doing great & will be up to camp Fri.

[kysirsoze]

Zobrist. Yay! Poe. No!! Berry. Yay!!!

Quite a sports day.

[Hammock Parties]

LOL...see, always something with this franchise.

This will contribute to our 0-3 start.

[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"

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

This could a good thing as long as this back issue doesn't linger.

That's pretty much a non-starter.

A disc issue will linger. It's not likely to ever really fully recover. The only thing he can do is strengthen around the disc so much that it's never really put under the same amount of stress it once was. The problem is that even that sort of training may aggravate it.

A disc injury is really really bad news.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Chiefnj2

3 month minimum recovery.

ummmm ... no

regular people can often return to limited work in less than a week (i did)


of course football players are different and can't return under "limits" but they also heal faster and have superior medical care


depends what all was done in the surgery as well

[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.

[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

[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

[saphojunkie]

Originally Posted by Stop, Chiefs

LOL...see, always something with this franchise.

This will contribute to our 0-3 start.

[ToxSocks]

Originally Posted by Billay

I saw Berry last night. No way he's playing this year.

You saw him how? Where?

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

The Chiefs had this done just so he won't earn a huge payday. next year.

#2 ) I've lived with a herniated disc for some 30 years and still work every day. What a puss.