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Robin PottratzTom Brady's career over?
October 23rd 2008 22:21
The Patriots won't be cheering much if Tom Brady can't recover
Since the initial surgery Brady has had three more to try to remove infection from the ACL. Antibiotics are the usual course of treatment in this situation according to Profootballtalk.com. They continue to say “Surgery is used only if antibiotics fail to treat infection.
It is possible that Tom Brady may need to have the infected ACL removed from his knee. Then he would have to heal up and have another ACL put back in. This could possibly keep him from playing next season and maybe even for two seasons.
Medscape.com has an interesting article on what they call failed ACL surgeries that lead to infection. They say that less than one percent of these procedures result in infection to the patient. Read their article here for more information on the subject. Webmd has an interesting article about ACL surgery in general. Their article says only about 60 percent of people recover fully from this operation. And that is the ones who don’t have to fight infection.
Apparently the Patriots are unhappy that Brady used a doctor of his choice rather than team doctors. I don’t blame them especially since his career is now being threatened by infection.
People tend to think of Tom Brady as a young player. He is not, at 31 he is in his prime as far as NFL quarterbacks go. However if he misses two or three (counting 2008) seasons he may not be able to come back. He would be very rusty from lack of play and his general physical shape would be hard to maintain with knee problems.
Plus the Patriots would have already found their next franchise signal caller and moved on. Of course some team would give even a 34-35 year old Tom Brady a shot if he wanted to play. But he would face a long hard road to get back into playing shape mentally and physically.
While not a particular fan of either Brady or the Patriots. I really hope he can shake this infection and return to the NFL in 2009 or at least 2010.
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