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Jordy Nelson faces physical, mental challenges
by Carrie White sales It's the one diagnosis Donald Thomas Jerseythat turns most sports fans into instant injury experts. No medical degree is needed to know that "torn anterior cruciate ligament" will be accompanied by "will miss the season" somewhere in the sentence. Torn ACLs are the most common cause of NFL players being sidelined for the entire regular season before a game has even been played. So far this offseason -- from Jacksonville Jaguars first-round pick Dante Fowler on the first day of rookie minicamp through Dallas Cowboys cornerback Orlando Scandrick on Tuesday -- 25 players have suffered torn ACLs. It happened to 22 players last offseason and 31 the year before, according to the ACL Recovery Club. The injury often occurs without any contact, as was the case whenhttp://www.coltsonlineofficialstore.com/Donte-Moncrief-Jersey Green Bay Packers wide receiver Jordy Nelson crumpled to the ground untouched after jumping to make what appeared to be a routine catch in Sunday's preseason game against the Pittsburgh Steelers. "When you jump and then land or begin to run, you need both the quadriceps muscle in front of your knee and your hamstring muscles in the back of your knee to fire at exactly the same time," said Dr. Robert Klapper, the chief of orthopedic surgery at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Group in Los Angeles. "If the hamstring is a fraction of a second off in firing, as you fire the quadriceps muscle, you are literally moving the tibia forward on the femur and it snaps the ligament." While exact recovery times fluctuate, if a player tears his ACL at any point during training camp in August, the recovery and rehab following surgery would be expected to sideline him at least through January. Even a torn ACL during OTAs in May can be a season-ender. There have been rare exceptions to the rule, but six to nine months is generally the recovery time. The reconstruction surgery usually entails harvesting a segment of the patellar tendon, which connects the kneecap to the tibia, and grafting http://www.coltsonlineofficialstore.com/Dwayne-Allen-Jerseyit in place of the torn ACL. It takes months for the graft to properly heal. "What we're waiting for is biology," said ESPN medical expert Dr. Mark Adickes, co-medical director of the Ironman Sports Medicine Institute at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. "For an ACL not to tear, it has to be living tissue. What I'll do is take a rectangle of bone [attached to a section of the patellar tendon] out of the kneecap and then a rectangle of bone out of the tibia and that's how we make the new ACL. So you have your bone on both ends growing into your bone, and that alone takes three months. That becomes living tissue." The surgery is only theCullen Jenkins Jersey beginning of a long road to recovery. "After the graft matures and takes on the properties of a ligament, there's all the external stuff the player has to deal with," said Stephania Bell, a physical therapist and injury analyst at ESPN. "The player has to get their range of motion back, their strength back and they have to gradually resume their activity. You literally have to relearn how to walk, and from that you go to running and from that to a highly complex skill set which you need to play football." While the science behind ACL injuries, surgeries and rehab can be easily http://www.footballgiantsprostore.com/Daniel-Fells-Jerseyexplained with diagrams and knee models, the emotional and psychological recovery can be fully understood only through experience. Darrelle Revis knows what Nelson is going through. The All-Pro New York Jets cornerback, who is three years removed from his ACL tear, feels the pain -- and a kinship -- whenever he sees another player go down with the same injury. "It's really draining," Revis said. "When you get into the ACL family -- that's what we say, the ACL family -- that's the same thing Jordy will go through. A lot of guys go through it. You talk to guys. You talk to past players who had it. You talk to present players. You talk about the process you have to go through, the rehab."Sponsor Ads
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