Amendola: Rehab May not Work...But try It Anyway???

[TKO]

This is sounding like quite a dubious recovery plan IMO:

Per Breer and Rapoport, the wide receiver's current plan is to rehab in an attempt to play in the next two weeks or so. If rehab doesn't work, surgery could be back on the table, costing Amendola closer to six weeks.

Maybe they should correctly diagnose the injury and create a treatment plan based on that instead of throwing darts in the dark. This has Dr. Thomas Gill written all over it...IMO.

 

[redseat]

Well good by DA then. This isn't something that will just get fixed overnight. Patriots lost out on this deal!

 

[Drawmeomg]

Just do whatever it takes for him to be full health by the last few games of the season.

 

[eric5577x]

So he is out for close to month with out the surgery, and he could miss a month with surgery? If that is correct, then why not just get the surgery? As usual we are not sure what is going on, but it has been like this for the past 12 yrs. Get the surgery and come back knowing it is fully healed.

 

[TKO]

The way it looks now, the six week clock starts when he opts for surgery so if they wait another two or three weeks to "see what works" it'll be week 10 or later before he's able to attempt to play.

 

[Drawmeomg]

Worth noting that surgery is a high risk activity. It's not at all unlikely that he could contract MRSA, C-Diff or a resistant strain of staph in surgery and be out for the year or worse. Hospitals are getting downright dangerous these days. If they can get him back to full health without surgery, that is greatly preferable.

 

[eric5577x]

Worth noting that surgery is a high risk activity. It's not at all unlikely that he could contract MRSA, C-Diff or a resistant strain of staph in surgery and be out for the year or worse. Hospitals are getting downright dangerous these days. If they can get him back to full health without surgery, that is greatly preferable.

Well in the real world, not football, rehab is the safer more preferred way. Maybe that is their thinking. I mean the worse that can happen, he gone for the yr.

 

[MrMoJoRisin63]

This is dumb he should be laying on the damn table right now getting cut.

 

[Drawmeomg]

Gronkowski is missing the start of this year basically because a surgery went wrong. You'd think Patriots fans, of all football fans, would be cognizant of the risk that comes with going under the knife.

 

[Yankee Traveler]

This is dumb he should be laying on the damn table right now getting cut.

Only if it is completely torn. Partially torn or ruptured adductors are generally treated with physical therapy and R.I.C.E.

What he needs is adequate time, not to be rushed back and make a partial tear or rupture a season ending full tear...

 

[SDGuy73]

Gronkowski is missing the start of this year basically because a surgery went wrong. You'd think Patriots fans, of all football fans, would be cognizant of the risk that comes with going under the knife.

What surgery went wrong?

 

[JDM]

The plate in his arm got infected. It took several surgeries to completely clean it out.

 

[SDGuy73]

The plate in his arm got infected. It took several surgeries to completely clean it out.

That surgery was a success. The surgery and infection are separate. Unless he got the infection during surgery...then they certainly botch it.

 

[patspa]

Looks like this will be an all year thing. Get the surgery now and be back towards the end. If he waits and it does not work, then he will need the surgery, and he will be done for the year. If these rookies progress like they are projected to be and DA is still working these issues out through the year and into next BB might get rid of him next.

 

[Southieinnc]

Looks like this will be an all year thing. Get the surgery now and be back towards the end. If he waits and it does not work, then he will need the surgery, and he will be done for the year. If these rookies progress like they are projected to be and DA is still working these issues out through the year and into next BB might get rid of him next.

Yahoo sports article:
Doctors often treat chronic groin pain by snipping the adductor longus – one of the muscles in the groin – from the pubic bone. Since Amendola's tendon ruptured, he essentially did the doctors' work for them, eliminating the need for surgery during the season. It also means he has a faster recovery time than if he had a groin operation.
Normal recovery time, even without surgery, is anywhere from two to six weeks. League sources said Amendola is healing faster than that, at a pace closer to three to four, which means he might play as soon as next Sunday at Atlanta.