Re: Michael Irvin Disses McNabb


"Sheldon Brown 24" <emailless@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> keveagle wrote:
>>> > We had a rip roaring debate about that the week they released he had
>>> > it. I was really in favor of shutting him down then. There is a doctor
>>> > in Germany who does the surgery exclusively and has 12,000 of them to
>>> > her credit, mostly on soccer players. She estimates the rate of
>>> > pain-free return at 2 weeks. Had he had it then, even if he missed her
>>> > estimate by 2 weeks, he would've been back by now having missed Dallas
>>> > and KC plus the bye week.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Amazing how this went from the 6 weeks the pro surgery crowd said a few
>>> weeks ago and now it's down to 2 weeks ....... name one football player
>>> who
>>> has come back in 2 weeks from this ......
>>>
>>>
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>> Hey Kev, don't blame me. They published a 3 page article about it in
>> the PDN about a week or 2 ago. The doctor has performed over 12,000 of
>> this specific surgery. (Sheldon can you access the article?)
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>
> Could operation benefit McNabb?
>
> By DANA PENNETT O'NEIL
>
> oneild@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> ON FEB. 9, Chris Leitch flew to Munich for surgery to repair the sports
> hernia that had plagued him for the better part of a season.
>
> On Feb. 12, he jogged.
>
> On Feb. 14, he ran 5 miles.
>
> And on Feb. 19, he began preseason practice alongside his MetroStars
> teammates.
>
> Eight months and an entire Major League Soccer season later, Leitch has
> had no re-tears, no problems and best of all, no pain.
>
> He is, without sounding too dramatic, cured.
>
> "I feel great," Leitch, a defenseman out of North Carolina, says. "Never
> better."
>
> As Donovan McNabb enters yet another work week with his sports hernia, the
> quarterback insists the pain he is feeling is pain he can stomach. Given a
> recovery period of 6 to 12 weeks, McNabb, understandably reluctant to have
> any sort of surgery, is even more hesitant to undergo a procedure that
> might shelve him for the better part of the Eagles' season.
>
> But what Leitch - and thousands of top-level European athletes and a
> growing number of American soccer players - have learned is that should
> McNabb's injury progress to the point of intolerable, it doesn't
> necessarily mean the end of the quarterback's season and subsequently, the
> end of the Eagles' Super Bowl hopes.
>
> There is an alternative.
>
> "Look, I have no interest in this," Leitch says. "I don't know Donovan.
> What he does doesn't affect me, but as an athlete, I have to say if you
> need surgery and you don't have this done, you're cheating yourself. Fly
> over there and be done with it."
>
> Over there would be Munich, home to the Hernia Center and its director,
> Dr. Ulrike Muschaweck, a woman who has revolutionized sports hernia
> repair. Using a procedure she developed called Minimal Repair Technique,
> athletes are returning to competition in 10 days to 2 weeks.
>
> That's full competition with no limits, no restrictions and best of all,
> no re-tears. Her recurrence rate is an astonishing .002 percent.
>
> Though many of Muschaweck's patients play professional soccer - it is,
> after all, Europe's version of the NFL - she says it doesn't matter what
> sport her patient plays because sports hernias affect motion. Contact
> doesn't alter the injury.
>
> "It doesn't matter what they do - basketball, football, soccer, hockey,"
> Muschaweck says, taking a break from her typical five-surgeries-a-day
> schedule last week. "After about 2 weeks, they can return. That's it. No
> risk."
>
> The reality is, at some point McNabb will need surgery. Sports hernias
> don't go away. They must be surgically repaired.
>
> They can, however, get worse as the internal organs that are pressing on
> the abdominal wall go from a partial to a full tear.
>
> "You can't say exactly how fast, but yes, they do get worse," says
> Muschaweck's associate, Dr. Angie Everhorn. "These are pretty tough guys
> who can play through the pain, but the sooner you come and have this done,
> the sooner you're OK for the rest of the season."
>
> During traditional hernia surgeries, doctors insert a mesh to help bond
> the muscle to the bone. It's a rather simple procedure but nonetheless
> requires a fairly lengthy recovery period.
>
> Muschaweck, a hernia specialist of 12 years who tailors her surgeries
> based on a patient's age, occupation and needs, doesn't use mesh with
> athletes, preferring instead to keep the elasticity between the muscle
> layers after surgery. Instead Muschaweck only opens the defected area,
> leaving the surrounding muscle tissue intact.
>
> Muschaweck also pays close attention to the genitofemoral nerve, which
> often is a source of hernia pain and, and if necessary removes part of it.
>
> Afterward each layer of muscle is sutured separately, allowing for a less
> painful and speedier recovery.
>
> "We don't operate on the intact structures; only the defect," Muschaweck
> explains. "That's the secret, minimizing the operating technique. It's
> only a small area that's causing the pain, so there's no need to open
> something more."
>
> If it sounds simple, it sort of is. The reason no one in the United States
> is going this route is that, unlike Europe, doctors here are only starting
> to recognize and diagnose sports hernias with regularity. Muschaweck, on
> the other hand, has more than 12,000 hernia repairs on her resume.
>
> In 1994 Brian Baldinger, the former Eagle and current Fox analyst,
> suffered a groin pain like he'd never experienced before. No one could
> tell him what was wrong. Finally he received a diagnosis, athletic
> pubalgia. The term sports hernia hadn't even been coined in this country.
>
> "In my opinion, the pain sometimes is misunderstood," Muschaweck says.
> "Doctors don't know the reason of the sportsman's groin [her term for
> sports hernia]. If you know the reason, you handle it. It's over. There's
> no more pain, no risk for a new hernia."
>
> Baldinger underwent traditional hernia repair, putting him out of
> commission for nearly 3 months.
>
> Told of Muschaweck's procedure, Baldinger was dumbfounded.
>
> "That's amazing," Baldinger says. "Sure I would have tried it, but I can
> see where people might think, 'Wait, everyone else says 6 weeks and now
> they're saying 2 weeks.' It sounds like you're going to see... someone
> who's not even a real doctor."
>
> His is not an unusual reaction. It all does sound too good to be true,
> like some sort of infomercial of false promises.
>
> Leitch understands the skepticism.
>
> He wasn't immediately sold, either.
>
> Plagued by groin pain through the entire 2004 season, Leitch knew he had
> to do something when the pain resurfaced prior to training camp in 2005.
>
> He spoke with his athletic trainer, John Gallucci, who offered a solution.
> During the offseason, Gallucci was one of a number of MLS medical
> personnel to attend a MLS Medical Conference in Los Angeles where
> Muschaweck made a presentation. Impressed, Gallucci spoke at length with
> Muschaweck and learned more about her procedure.
>
> "In Europe she does basically all your big-time clubs," says Gallucci, who
> recently wrote an article for the National Athletic Trainer Association's
> News. "She's really incredible."
>
> Hesitantly and with Gallucci alongside him, Leitch flew to Germany where
> Muschaweck gave him an ultrasound - just like the ones used on pregnant
> women - and immediately found the hernia.
>
> "I was a little sketchy," Leitch says. "I was the first American to go
> over and do this and if it's my body having surgery, I'm going to worry. I
> couldn't understand why in the U.S. it took months to recover and she was
> telling me I'd be back in days. I thought, 'There's no way. It's not
> possible.' Even my orthopedic surgeon was like, 'Seven to 10 days? I don't
> know about that.' "
>
> But then Leitch saw the wall of photographs, patients of Muschaweck's who
> also happened to be among the best soccer players in the world. To
> soccer-phobic Americans the photos would be meaningless. To Leitch, a
> former Ohio Player of the Year, it was like walking the hallways of Canton
> or Cooperstown.
>
> Those photos, plus his own research, reassurance from Muschaweck and that
> .002 recurrence rate gave Leitch the courage for the leap of faith.
>
> "I remember the day before the surgery, I was walking down the hall with a
> guy from a premiere league over there," Leitch says. "We were laughing at
> the idea of playing in 10 days because it just hurt so much.
>
> "But right after we got out of surgery, we walked around Munich. The next
> day, I was pedaling a stationary bike. By the third day I was jogging and
> around Day 5, I ran 5 miles."
>
> Leitch, who played every MetroStars game this season and logged the
> second-most minutes (2,344) on his team, has started a pipeline of
> American soccer players to Munich. He convinced his friend, DC United
> forward Bryan Namoff, to meet with Muschaweck. Namoff had surgery on both
> sides of his abdominal wall in July and returned to play in early August.
> Chivas United forward Matt Taylor missed only seven games after his
> procedure this season, and on Aug. 14 Ante Razov followed his teammate's
> flight to Munich.
>
> The league's fourth all-time leading scorer, Razov came back to work on
> Sept. 3.
>
> "I had surgery on my groin last October and then the pain came back," says
> Razov, who's been plagued by some sort of groin pain for the better part
> of 15 years. "The first surgery I had there was 3 months of unnecessary
> waiting. Now I feel 100 percent normal. This is a no-brainer. I was ready
> to come back even earlier. We just didn't have a game."
>
> Muschaweck hopes it's just a matter of time before other American athletes
> follow the trail blazed by the soccer players.
>
> But she needs another guinea pig, another Leitch who is willing to become
> the first American non-soccer player to take the leap. It's a tough sell.
> In this country soccer still doesn't get the respect it does in Europe and
> so the natural skepticism of the surgery is only heightened by the fact
> that Muschaweck's wall of honor doesn't include an NFL or NBA or MLB face
> (though it does include hockey's Dominik Hasek).
>
> "If it were someone like David Beckham, I think that would help,"
> Baldinger says.
>
> How about a Donovan McNabb?
>
> "After the first successful American soccer players, I'm seeing more and
> more," she says. "Nobody believed this before. Now they believe."
>
> http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/sports/12938754.htm
>
>


very interesting ...... thanks.



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