Cam had shoulder surgery

[LinvilleGorge]

https://www.panthers.com/news/cam-newton-undergoes-arthroscopic-procedure-on-shoulder?fbclid=IwAR2hr6-3ZLOPJ2hHTpxZDQ6pKowHFuGAgvwYnFR84TxPMmuXIHTO9EX7dbs

Let's all hope that this is the fix.

[pinkfloyd]

oh dear god. I hope the "team doctor" is better than most of the rest of the organization.

[My Goodness My Guinness]

But we didn't lose any games because Cam was injured! herp derp

[Mr. Scot]

That's a double-edged sword (or scalpel).

Clearly he needed it, and at least he got it a lot earlier in the offseason than last time.

On the flipside, as the people on here who have medical knowledge have attested, the more you go into a body part, the more trauma it experiences. and naturally, there's going to be rehab to follow.

Bottom Line: Here's hoping this is, as the saying goes, just what the doctor ordered.

 

[Sam Mills Fan]

There will be tons of people acting like they're doctors on the Huddle this week and saying Cam will be back for training camp or Cam will never play again. Please note: not one of us has access to Cam's medical information and not one of us has any clue when Cam will be back until we get a timetable from him or the team.

[Zaximus]

This should have happened in November, but yeah, at least it's sort of early this time.  

[Adb6368]

Imagine if we would have shut him down in week 15 and got this done a month ago after he first said he still had pain? You would have thought the first time he hurt his shoulder and we delayed for months we would have learned something...

[UncleWillie]

They were secretive about it but I'm glad something was done now instead of March. At least he has 6-7 months to recover.

[Bartin]

A scope is a lot more minor than I was expecting and I'm not sure that is good or bad thing. Hopefully it means they identified the problem and it was an easy fix and not that they still weren't quite sure what was wrong and this was something they hoped might fix issues or that he and the team opted to take the least intrusive route when a full reconstruction would have been the best long term option akin to putting duct tape on a leaky pipe rather than replacing the whole thing.

[jbland]

I wish him a speedy recovery and hope we havent seen the best of him. 

[poorboysrev]

Arthroscopic is ALOT less invasive and thank god they did it so much earlier in the offseason than last time....good news

[LinvilleGorge]

I think the biggest thing to take away from this is that the Panthers knew more or at least figured out more about what was going on with Cam's shoulder than they were letting on.

I'm not sure that it's confidence inspiring that they're letting out so little information on this whole thing. I guess I'd feel a lot better if the doctor came out of the OR throwing out Rick Flair woos and proceeded to have an interview saying this wasn't poo and he took care of this like a boss and that Cam will be blasting hellfire missiles from his right arm by the end of next week. LOL!

[Cookie Lyon]

[UncleWillie]

1 minute ago, Zaximus said:

This should have happened in November, but yeah, at least it's sort of early this time.  

I was just telling someone this and then saw your comment. I didn't see how him playing the last month of the season helped anything but we've been down this road before.