From a heads up I got it was very restrained to what occurred internally.
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From a heads up I got it was very restrained to what occurred internally.
He will be spending a long time in the VFL until he gets to the required level. Of the three blokes we have picked up (not counting Golds) he is the one with the biggest question marks as he has been a one trick pony his entire career. Needs to win more ball to make it a success at Collingwood and to do that needs to have the requisite level of fitness. Hes not at Melbourne any more. Leigh Brown got a similar wakeup call when he arrived at Collingwood and came good quickly.
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Not being a medical person, I'm not sure what this might mean TRS
So as to get an idea on how it will affect him, do you know of any other recent players who have had this injury?
This website explains the injury
http://www.physioadvisor.com.au/8369950/spondylolysis-pars-defect-lumbar-stress-fractu.htm
It seems like he would make a full recovery if the injury is managed properly.
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Thank you
When is Elliott out of contract?
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Is it relevant
Same time as Macaffer, Reid, Toovey, Blair, Goldsack etc so that should keep you happy
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Not offhand, and I may be overstating things as there would be elite athletes out there who have this condition without experiencing symptoms, even from birth... but once the patient/athlete has reported symptoms it's clearly become an issue, and it appears now to have become chronic, I think it very likely that he will be battling these issues for the rest of his career.
The surgical approach would normally involve bone grafting with the pelvis as the donor site. Probably a lengthy recovery time.
The defect would be under most stress during loading and extension IMHO, so jumping/landing, reaching up for overhead marks, tackling/bumping, maybe kicking over longer distances... not so much running.
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Nah, it's called the pars interarticularis, it's part of the vertebra between the various processes on the back side. Pars defects are not uncommon and can be thought of as similar to a stress fracture, but if they don't heal up the first time, then the outlook isn't too sunny for it to ever happen without surgery/dramatic change in lifestyle.
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Nah Pa's defect affects hearing intermittently.
It's when Ma tells him to mow the lawn or put out the garbage but he doesn't hear.
He does however hear when Ma says "dinner time or would you like a beer".
It's a frustrating disease........for women.
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So this will effectively, for all intents and purposes have him out for the year.
Each time he'll be "a week or two away", something will crop up and it will keep him out an extra month or more until the end of the season nears tand they just call it and give him surgery at seasons end.
Each time he'll be "a week or two away", something will crop up and it will keep him out an extra month or more until the end of the season nears tand they just call it and give him surgery at seasons end.
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From my understanding if he requires surgery his career will be done, as it requires the vertebrae to be fused.
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If he develops a spondylolisthesis, which is where one vertebra slips forward on an adjacent vertebra, then you might consider fusion, but that is a more advanced condition than what we are referring to here. A pars defect refers to something more like a stress fracture, without displacement, on one side of the vertebra only.
Potentially, surgery might entail taking bone from his pelvis and grafting it onto the defective area, to aid union at the pars on one vertebral level. Even that would only be if he can't effectively manage his symptoms over the course of the season.
I say Swan takes over until he is back.
“We’re going to take him out of the program for three or four weeks and not do the genuine footy stuff.
“We’re pretty confident that by that stage he should be right to go again.”
LOL. OP is correct - this equates to months of chiropractic therapy and a trip to the leading obstetrician in Austria.
“We’re pretty confident that by that stage he should be right to go again.”
LOL. OP is correct - this equates to months of chiropractic therapy and a trip to the leading obstetrician in Austria.
Which field do you work in buddy?
I agree, why, 4 weeks before the season starts, does the Club decide to "...take him out of the program for three or four weeks and not do the genuine footy stuff."
Ought this have been done from the very beginning that Elliott notified the medicos that he had a (recurrence of an) injury?
CFC needs to adopt the "under-promise, over-deliver" approach to injury reporting. Don't give us best case and then leave us disappointed. If a player is realistically likely to miss six weeks, far better to tell us that he'll miss eight and then deliver a pleasant surprise be bringing him back two weeks "early" than tell us that he'll miss four, only to enrage the masses when he comes back two weeks "late". Its about expectation management! CFC gets this wrong time and time again.
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So now we want the club to lie to us?
Wouldn't be funny if we had Treloar, Howe, Elliott & Reid all out for long periods....
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The only problem with that is that you'd get some around here complaining about players being rushed back too soon
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