DMN: BLOG: Isaiah Stanback wants to put off surgery until after season

[DaBoys4Life]

This is not correct.

We can place him on injured reserve as long as there is a verifiable injury. It has nothing to do with whether or not he elects surgery or whether his injury costs him significant time. It is basically eliminating him from the roster or practicing.

You hear about players all the time getting upset because they believed they could have rehabbed and played yet their season was ended by being place on the list.

Then we should do that to him since I don't trust him playing through it.

 

[Bluefin]

Then we should do that to him since I don't trust him playing through it.

Isaiah Stanback played and practiced with, in his words, a worse variety of the same injury last season.

I don't expect Stanback to see much time at receiver this season, he may not even get to return kicks with the other options available to the team. But I want Izzy on the active roster because it will enable him to get practice reps and that is what he needs.

Surgery and injured reserve means something like 4 months of rehab and no contact with the rest of the team.

The coaches claimed Stanback was uncoverable last December in practice and he was wearing a brace on his shoulder then.

I hope he can do it again.

 

[Tobal]

I've dislocated my shoulder 8 or 9 times I had surgery after the 2nd one.

From my experience there is little pain except when it pops out or nearly pops out (you can sort of feel it roll to the edge, but just as it's about to pop out you can catch it) and it gets sore sometimes, hell it aches much of the time, but It's rarely bad enough for me to take OTC meds.

I guarantee Stanback has better muscle support than I do and when I am working out my shoulder hurts less... which should be enough reason to work out (as I sit here lifting 12 oz cans).

If you were a defensive player I'd see it as tougher to play with, but a WR or RB I wouldn't think would be that bad. It's super intense pain when it's out, but it's 95% relief immediately when it pops back in.

 

[Eskimo]

someone explain the medicine to me. emmitt separated his shoulder against the giants and was at near 100 percent in a few weeks. is it just a matter of the degree?

my understanding right now is that Stanback dislocated his shoulder which means the arm bone popped out away from the shoulder blade.

A shoulder separation is usually a much less severe injury of the AC joint or where the shoulder blade meets the collarbone.

Most AC joint injuries are pure ligament injuries without much chance of nerve or bone damage and you can even function reasonably well without one altogether.

Shoulder dislocations, however, tend to be recurrent and become more prone to dislocation each time they are dislocated. Furthermore, they are usually associated with injuries to the labrum, the arm bone, the shoulder socket, the rotator cuff and different types of nerve injuries (most commonly the axillary nerve which supplies the deltoid).

Most shoulder separations don't require surgery, just a bit of time and rehab for it to settle down. It is unlikely you are going to do much further damage to the shoulder while playing with a minor shoulder separation like Emmitt had, although it can be quite painful.

Most shoulder dislocations in young, athletic people who play contact sports will require surgery to repair damage caused the dislocation, but more importantly to "tighten" supporting tissue to prevent further recurrence.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

I like the guts and the determination to try and help contribute this year but I'm not sure that it's the smartest move.