Ahmad Brooks Injury Update
by mikeinsp on Aug 8, 2010 12:57 PM PDT
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PrintInjury expert, and 49ers fan, Stephania Bell gives her thoughts on Ahmad Brooks kidney laceration. She is a physical therapist, a board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist and a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Mike Sando was able to get some of her thoughts. Here are a few of them.
If it is a very tiny laceration, more superficial (or more toward the 'outer surface' of the kidney), this injury might well heal on its own and heal completely without further issue -- relatively quickly. A more severe injury could cause much more bleeding and in some instances require surgery, although that is far less common.
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"Unless Brooks' injury is more serious than it sounds on the surface, I would expect that he will be able to return. The question becomes when. While I certainly can't offer a specific timetable from here (and even the 49ers couldn't give a precise one because it all depends on how his healing progresses), I can say that the re-evaluation in two weeks will probably dictate whether looks well enough to return to practice. Expect more time before they allow contact."
From the sound of it, since it is a small cut, it looks like Brooks won't miss any serious time. He will miss the 49ers-Colts preseason opener, and is most likely sitting out the Minnesota game. Hopefully he returns quickly enough in time for the season opener in Seattle.
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors.
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This is good info to have so I'm bumping it to the front page.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority
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Thanks for posting the info. I edited the FanPost a little bit. We can’t copy and paste huge chunks from other articles, so what I did was link to Sando’s article (always make sure and include a link to the source) and remove some chunks of it.
Other than that, thanks for getting that posted. It certainly seems like it’s not as bad as initially thought.
by David Fucillo on Aug 8, 2010 1:27 PM PDT up reply actions
A tid bit about the injury ...
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/20969/following-up-on-ahmad-brooks-injury
Gotta love a woman that wear's knee pad's to work ...!!
Definetly
Why doesnt this guy start? It seems like every time he steps onto the field he has a big play.
by 49ersfanConner on Aug 8, 2010 11:30 PM PDT up reply actions
the only other person I could vote for
would be Justin Smith. Actually, in a 4-3 J.Smith would be our best pass rusher I believe, maybe closely followed by Brooks. Our OLB’s (besides Brooks and seemingly Briggs) are not great pass rushers. Lawson is fast to the edge but get’s pushed out and has a weak counter. Haralson is better bull rusher but he’s not going to win often against 320lb. men. McDonald is decent pass rusher but plays in nickel on the inside.
"They can’t stop us. Throw in our other weapons, and it’s over. What are they gonna do? There ain’t nothing they can do. It’s over." - Vernon Davis
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i agree
that smith is our best pass rusher but with the olb’s its lawson
Um, how am i supposed to sign this thing? It's a computer?!
Brooks
easily, he produced nearly the same numbers in what, half the games and even fewer snaps?
"They can’t stop us. Throw in our other weapons, and it’s over. What are they gonna do? There ain’t nothing they can do. It’s over." - Vernon Davis
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Agreed
Brooks easily. Better moves. Stronger at the point and can shed blocks. Brooks has a great combo of speed and strength that none of the other OLB pass rushers can offer.
by ZeroOneInfinity on Aug 9, 2010 11:39 AM PDT up reply actions
he's strong as heck too
that dude looks like a brick crap-house (to be clean)
"They can’t stop us. Throw in our other weapons, and it’s over. What are they gonna do? There ain’t nothing they can do. It’s over." - Vernon Davis
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Ahmad Brooks is so tough, he doesn’t need to wear pads, but he does anyways for the opposing quarterback’s safety.
Um, how am i supposed to sign this thing? It's a computer?!
That's a PW fact
Not Brooks.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Aug 11, 2010 9:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Timetable for return
I’m a surgeon. While I agree that two weeks is a good starting point for evaluating Brooks’ injury, the reality is that he won’t be able to sustain physical contact for a good 4-6 weeks after injury. Otherwise, he risks re-aggravating his injury.
so this could threaten the regular season then?
When life gives you fruit, add a bunch of sugar to it.
Fascinating speculations
“Injury expert, and 49ers fan, Stephania Bell, gives her thoughts on Ahmad Brooks kidney laceration. She is a physical therapist, a board-certified orthopedic clinical specialist and a certified strength and conditioning specialist.”—-Let’s see, in order, whether ESPN has the best expertise available:
1. My brain reels as I think about what Ms. Bell does when she performs physical therapy on a kidney. I doubt it is much fun for either therapist or patient.
2. As an orthopedic clinical specialist she probably deals with a lot of kidney bones and/or kidney joints.
3. Diagnosis without having seen the medical chart (confidential information) is hard enough (and a very bad idea) if you are a physician, and can get you sued for medical malpractice if you treat patients this way. As a PT, it must be even harder to do a medical diagnosis usually reserved for trauma surgeons and ER docs.
4. This seems like bottom of the barrel ESPN pseudo-journalism to fill space during a slow football story weekend.
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I don’t view it as bottom of the barrel. Bell is well-respected, and if your Sando you go to the expert with whom you work to get info. Seeing as the 49ers are going to reassess in two weeks, some information would be nice. And it’s not like she made any conclusions. She simply said these are the options for what it could be.
by David Fucillo on Aug 8, 2010 5:48 PM PDT up reply actions
your brain
well first off, there’s a law against drinking and commenting.
second, your not a doctor, you have no medical background, she does.
finally, with the medical background she has, and which you have none of, she is just stating her opinion.
Um, how am i supposed to sign this thing? It's a computer?!
I sorta understand your point
I thought something similar when I first read it, in that she’s not a doctor of internal medicine. It would be like asking someone at H&R Block about a potential tax issue facing a multi-bilion dollar global corporation…sure it’s sorta in their field…but kinda out of their league.
Still, she knows more than you and I and I think she gave the safe answers, pointed out that it depends on several factors we don’t know of yet, but said that IF XYZ are true then it SHOULD be blah blah blah.
So no worries.
"They can’t stop us. Throw in our other weapons, and it’s over. What are they gonna do? There ain’t nothing they can do. It’s over." - Vernon Davis
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its a clinical opinion
straightforward. Don’t see why your panties are in a bunch.
I don’t think that at all… and of course this is all speculation on your behalf
by Drew K on Apr 14, 2010 2:05 PM PDT
I have had...
a lacerated kidney and my spleen twice.
get back to work! :)
Care to elaborate?
What are the symptoms?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Aug 10, 2010 9:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I have a lacerated brain
after Heitmann went down
I don’t think that at all… and of course this is all speculation on your behalf
by Drew K on Apr 14, 2010 2:05 PM PDT
Kidney laceration
Yeah, the ESPN expert is clearly not an expert on internal injuries or kidneys. She isn’t even professional enough to know that she should simply say, ‘That;s not my expertise. I’ll check with a renal specialist and get back to you".
It is curious that Brooks would sustain a kidney laceration. The kidneys are fairly well protected from blunt traumas and I’m sure no one cut him on the practice field. I wonder if a rib blow actually caused the laceration? It doesn’t really matter how the injury occurred except to help prevent any re-occurance. He may need to wear an extra ‘flak jacket’ type padding for a while while the injury is healing.
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