No reason to play him in the Open Cup match. Lets get him ready for Saturday.
Maxime Chanot [Defender]
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Lampard was listed at questionable for 3 months, I'll feel better when he starts showing up in training photos.
Damn. That sucks. Makes you wonder if the pain wasn't really going away, and surgery was a last resort. Otherwise why wait so long? He has missed 5 games already.
6 weeks would put him right at the beginning of October. About the same time Mata would be back
Why wait 5 games..... because the doctor NYCFC has cannot properly diagnose sports hernias - Exhibit A: Conner Brandt
Honestly, this is not good news at all. We really should have sent him to that German Doctor(?) that invented the mesh procedure rather than let our team at NYPresbyterian take a stab at it. Even if he somehow is granted a miracle, and the doctors performed the procedure correctly, there's two months left of the season - that's not a lot of time to recover and then get back into shape.
We are so fcked on defense after that shitshow transfer window.
Our medical team is a complete joke. How many guys have to be misdiagnosed before the organization decides to hire people who have a clue how to treat athletes?
Sports hernia treatment, generally, involves rest for a period of time followed by physical therapy. Surgery will follow if the rest/PT do not help. The timeline for Chanot is unfortunate but not unusual.
If the surgery was (or becomes) unsuccessful, blame can go to the medical team, but at this point any connection to Brandt's situation would be circumstantial.
Regardless, we should have added center back depth during the window - or at least find a free agent for the next two months.
Yes and no. I had a sports hernia from distance running, called it the day it happened and remember the exact moment. The doctors made me go through endless rest and PT for a few months, and it didn't get better - I couldn't even run a few steps down the block without serious pain. I begged the entire time for surgery, and they refused, but I finally convinced them to do the surgery after everything else they suggested failed, and I was training again (albeit slowly after such a layoff) less than 6 weeks later.
I'm no doctor, the protocols are wrong for anybody that isn't a weekend warrior athlete, but especially for the top echelon of athletes. There's no downside to the mesh surgery, my doctor even admitted to it, so what's the difference in 6 weeks recovery from surgery vs a hypothetical 6 weeks of rest/PT when there's a real potential for an additional 6 weeks of surgery as a worst case?
Except that his injury was initially announced/diagnosed as a groin injury, I believe. Either they're lying to us (which is bad), or they're misdiagnosing, which is very bad. Either way it's bad.
Sport hernia's are strains or tears in the lower abdomen or groin
From the injury report before the LA game:
https://www.nycfc.com/post/2017/08/11/injury-report-wallace-healthy-la
Again, either they lied to us or they misdiagnosed.
They are very closely related conditions, and from what I understand, people can end up having both. I just don't get the tinfoil hat thinking that the club would lie about it.
http://www.sportshernia.com/what-is-osteitis-pubis/
"Repair of a sports hernia often allow osteitis pubis to heal by relieving this stress"
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I don't think they lied about it - I think they misdiagnosed it. Wouldn't be the first time. He's already missed a month with this injury, now we're restarting the clock and one of our best defenders will miss another two months and probably not be ready again until the playoffs.
Frankly, with all the injuries/accumulation suspensions we've had lately, it's a miracle this team is still 8-2-1 in its last 11 games. Villa is carrying this group on his back.
It could be that he wanted to see if the rest for 5 weeks would solve the issue. It didn't so he had to get surgery. The surgery was the last resort and it came to that. Not a misdiagnosed, possibly.
At what point do we recall Mena and/or Gomez for emergency depth? I'm all for 3 offensive subs each game, and don't want to deviate from it, but options are nice.
Please. I've had 2 hernia operations. One when I was 5 years old. Back then we didn't sit around waiting and hoping we would magically get better. We downed a shot and said, "Doc, cut me open and fix it!" Because we were men. Even when we were 5.
True story, except about the liquor.
True story, except about the liquor.
Did you walk uphill to the recovery room? If not then shut it, snowflake.
Not only did he walk uphill, but it was snowing
