PMG12569 wrote:Listen...none of us are docters and even if you are you dont know the extent of the injury they can tell us the technical term for it but that doesnt give us the level of injury...and than last person I am going to listen to is someone with a dallas star giving a completely negative aspect of the situation...sure it might be true....but I could say that a month of rest and rehab and he'll be 110% with no future risk factor of reinjury and i could be true...all skins fans stay optimistic...from the reports we have more reason to be optimistic than pessimistic
Not trying to rain on your little parade there, buddy, but there's no level of damage on this type of injury. It's either a dislocation or it's not.
I said he could play in a game tomorrow if need be. What, would you like me to say he'd also run for 300 yards? Without surgery, the shoulder is vulnerable and he'll be in a lot of pain when it really gets laced into.
You'll see what I mean come Week 1.
"He's a playmaker, that's his label. They used to have strong safeties, but now they got another position: They're called playmakers." -Terence Newman on Roy Williams
Primetime42 wrote:This injury does not, I repeat, does NOT heal without surgery. Especially within the same season. So even if he's "100%", that guarantees nothing. He's still liable to reinjure it with any one pop. The most a player can do is strengthen the muscles around the joint so that the bone is less likely to shift out of the socket. Even then, it's not repairable naturally. He needs to go under the knife to do that.
According to the chart here,45% people with shoulder dislocations who did not have surgery, did not re-dislocate their shoulders.
One of the key factors influencing recurrence is the age of the patient. You said you were in high school when you suffered your injury. Recurrence is something like 90% for people between the ages of 10 and 20. Portis is 25. Chance of recurrence goes down dramatically at his age.
Primetime42 wrote:Not trying to rain on your little parade there, buddy, but there's no level of damage on this type of injury. It's either a dislocation or it's not.
Some shoulders are rendered more unstable than others after a dislocation. Here is a description of how doctors evaluate unstable shoulders. Note items 3 and 4. Portis' shoulder popped back in by itself immediately after he suffered the injury.
