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Some Cause For Concern Regarding Cam?

Proudiddy

By Proudiddy,
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I've had this surgery in 2010 when I was 36.   I tore my when I hit a fat 8 iron on the par 3 8th hole at Wilmington Muni.  Mine was a "use tear" because of the length of my collarbones. It was a ~1 cm tear and required only 1 screw to fix.

Obviously I was 10 years older than Cam and didn't have the quality medical care that he'll get... and 10 weeks out I had to be put back under for them to break the scar tissue loose for full range of motion.  I didn't lift ANY weight, zero, none... for 5 months and in the 6th nonth I started with 5 lbs for one month.  I was roughly back to "full" strength 8 months after surgery.

This was my left, non-throwing shoulder (not that I throw anything) but I guarantee I couldn't have thrown anything for 5 months after the surgery. 

As I said, obviously it's the same surgery under different circumstances but I still think 12 weeks is relatively optimistic for 100% recovery of his throwing arm.  My fear is that he pushes too hard...  my surgeon told me that the rotator cuff after the surgery is basically like wet tissue paper and it's extremely easy to re-injure it if you push too hard before it's fully healed.  Hopefully the doctors and trainers will keep that in check.  The Panthers have a lot invested in and riding on Cam, you'd have to hope they'll do it right but it sure doesn't seem like they've done it right so far...

(I'm on my phone in a meeting so not responsible for typos :) )

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I've seen several doctors comment on this, as well as others within the NFL.  And pretty much all of them have said there shouldn't be a problem.  And the doctors have almost universally said that the timeframe the Panthers gave is realistic and fits the timeframe for the repair of a PARTIAL rotator cuff tear. 

The only dissenting opinion by a doctor I heard was from ESPN's medical guy, and he said it could be 6 months or so before Cam is able to play.  But that was just about the exact timeframe all of the other doctors said it would take to recover from a COMPLETE TEAR of the rotator cuff.  So, I tend to think that barring some unusual problem during surgery, Cam should be ready by training camp.  And that ESPN doc was just going ESPN on us and trying to overly dramatic by giving the worst case scenerio. 

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We will know when we know. I've seen too many guys have this surgery and not one of them was near normal for atleast 6 months. Said it before, Cam won't play until week 4 or later. It's another example of poor decisions by this franchise. 

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I think we'd already know if it was a Pennington situation. So I'd just continue to solidify the heck out of the Oline, design less played that Cam runs the ball, draft Fournette to do that, and get back into the playoff hunt.

 

I we are wrong then we must throw the medical staff into a volcano. 

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