May 21, 2023 • 8 mins
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(00:01):
That's all right, but you can'tgo wrong. All you have to say
is perfect weather. It's seven endof story. Yep, that's all you
guys say. It will be eightthousand degrees next month and it'll snow and
three. So we have such atreat for everybody listening. Right now.
We have a young man who hissophomore year in high school and what's the
name of your high school? Downuntil the coffee unioda high school sophomore year
had a horrible injury. Broke hiscollarbone. It's on broke his collar bone
(00:25):
in three different places, is thatright, Doctor Cohen? Three pieces,
Yes, three pieces on the footballfield during a game. For some people,
you might think that's his throwing arm. Is his career over? When
you break a collar bone like that, Doctor Cohen did a miracle, which
he does on so many different people. And you had surgery through you talk
us through the surgery what you hadto do, and then the recovery process.
(00:47):
Because now he's better and stronger thanhe was before. Yeah. So
the nice thing about a broken boneis that it heels with bone, so
it's going to be as strong asit was before you broke it. So
that's different than some other tissues thatwe deal with, but in Newton situation,
he had this. Well, wecould one of the pieces was pointing
kind of up and down in avertical fashion, and when we see that,
(01:07):
we know that those are gonna behard to heal. It just mean
that there was a big trauma anda lot of soft tissue that wraps around
the bone was stripped off. Soreally what we do is we just psychle
puzzle. We put the pieces backtogether and hold them together with a plate
and screws, so metal plate andmetal screws, and then it's just time.
You know, it's nice when they'reyoung and healthy and eat well and
care about what they what they do, and they don't smoke. I mean,
(01:29):
all these things are important for healing. And also listen, I mean
obviously when we're fixing something, wegot to be careful for the first six
to eight weeks. That's how longit takes for the bones to heal.
So he followed instructions, which wasgreat, but also, like a great
kid, he wants to get backand be active, so you know,
this was not something that was goingto keep him down. This was something
that was only going to make himstronger and him and him myself and his
(01:53):
dad. Comments are just about hiswork ethic and you don't see that a
lot, and that's important. Hopingon METI cool guy, understand this.
You got a piece of bone thatyou had on a table. Will you
put it back? Yes? Ialways picture a bone as like the marrow
or the middle of it or isthat what you call it? How does
that know how to reconnect? Ordo you how do you fix that part?
(02:14):
So if you think about it's atube, okay, okay, and
the tube's actually holloway at least inthe clavicle, so and it's it's like
a jigsaw puzzle. You take thepieces and you're fit the back together like
they like you would on a table. But you do this inside the incision.
Now, then I think his incisionis very small, and we do
it very in a vertical. Wedon't expose the whole fracture. I want
(02:36):
to protect as much soft tissue aswe can. So really it's just get
the two main fragments back together,fix them, and then bringing that third
piece to kind of how do youslide it between I'm sorry, I'm not
salized. How do you slide itdown between all the muscles and don't tear
it all. So the clavicle isvery superficial. If you feel your own
collar bone, it's right underneath theskin. Okay, so you know there's
(02:58):
not a lot of muscle or tending. It's broke right here. Yes,
it's right there. It sounds likeit would take months to recover from something
like this. Newton, How longdid it take you for you to throw
football again? Six weeks? Like, that's unbelievable to me. You have
that much of a break in yourcollar bone laying on the six weeks.
Yeah, how does it feel now? Great? I can I can do
(03:21):
anything. I feel like stronger nowright. Yeah, first time you threw
that football after this surgery? Whatdid it feel like for you? Again?
It was weird? Really weird.It was, but because like the
whole time, I was like,how in the world am I going to
be able to throw again? Likeit didn't feel like it was even possible.
But I threw it the first timeand it was like I've never used
(03:44):
my arm before. It was weird. Did you ever think shame it wasn't
my other shoulder, because in yourmind, my mind, I'd be like
out of all the sides, it'sat my throwing side. It's a shame
I didn't break this side. Hardto use, right, Yeah, if
this family couldn't get even better.His brother, there's a receiver, I
know, so I feel sorry forIt's a little brother. So if he
puts it on his numbers, he'sgoing to be number one. You got
(04:06):
to love. You're going to yellat em even twice as much. So
be nice to your little brother.Yeah, I've always been the little brother.
Big brothers or a little brother alwayscomes to the sideline. Lets us
all know how open he always is. He didn't even look at me.
Dad, as as his father andhis coach. You have the opportunity right
now to say whatever you want todoctor Cohen, who's in the room with
(04:28):
us right now, who basically I'mgonna say it, he basically saved your
son's arm. Yeah, he youknow, he knows how much he means
to us in our family. Anduh, you know, anytime that there's
an injury of any sort with anyof our athletes, um and I hear
about it. He's the first personI refer him to. Um And and
a lot of people will take meup on that, and uh, it's
(04:50):
just you know, we're just gratefulto be able to have someone like that
in our community that does such agreat job. And the turnaround time is
is so quickly. Like you know, these kids are you know, their
their their mental makeup is so fragilewhen when something like this happens and you're
able to get him in to theyou know, to the best to the
best in the world so quick andget them back a lot of times better
(05:12):
than maybe when they went in.You're not exaggeratingly say that he really is
a world renown. Caught myself whenI said it, but it's true.
Yeah, so, um, thelast thing for you to say. And
I think what you've touched on.He's young, so he's going to heal
better, but everything that he wasdoing in the way he was living his
life helped with that recovery. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
mean, he's a good kid.And you know, you don't you just
(05:35):
watch, you know, I getthe video of him probably two days after
the surgery, in the in thegym doing you know, his other his
left arm exercises. So you know, when you have a kid like that
that they're gonna not only listen.But they're gonna they're gonna have a good
outcome. You know. The otherthe other part that that we didn't talk
about is you know Newton works outworks out at a gym that that we
(05:58):
use a lot for our post surgeryathletes AP Prep and Chill Coffee and Jason
Prater and his team Drew Irvan.I mean, these guys are dedicated to
what they do, and more sowith these kids that are coming out off
of injury. So any of ourathletes that live locally that I give them
the opportunity to go to AP Prep, I'm on my dime because I think
it's really important to have that nextstage of therapy that you can't get.
(06:24):
You don't get with traditional therapy.It's a return to sport therapy. You
see this, you know around thecountry at like d one or you know
there are places in Cincinnati that havebut you know, and we have it
in Chillcoffee, but it's not reallyas advertised. But AP Prep does a
great job and we send all ofour athletes. How do you give him
the green light to throw? What'sthe I don't know if I gave him
(06:46):
a day after seeing me in theoffice six week green light. I'm kind
of learning some new stuff here,but yeah, so it's a little it's
a little different. So bon boneinjuries are different than soft tissue injuries.
So the bones at six weeks andit's held is going to be as strong.
So he's safe to do it.Obviously, his mechanics, like he
said, it felt weird to pickup the ball and throw just because he
hadn't done it in so long.His mechanics were probably off and all the
(07:09):
muscles, but quickly the muscle memorycome back when you when you deal with
things like rotator cuffs or you knowsomebody who has a dislocated shoulder, that
you stabilize those soft tissues. Youhave to stretch out that soft tissue before
these athletes can throw. In afracture situation like news, the soft tissue
wasn't damaged as it would be anothersituations. So he was and he was
already working in incredible story again Andthis is this is the type of thing
(07:32):
that we love to share on RAWbecause I just don't think people realize how
lucky they are to have you ina central Ohio And like I said,
you help everybody. You're always opento help anyone at any time. In
fact, one of my best friendswho's from Colorado, his son pitches for
Ohio State and he had an injury. He took a line drive off of
(07:54):
his arm, and he immediately becausehe's not from Ohio, he's from here,
but he's living out, you know, in Colorado, has been for
years, and he automatically texts me. He's like, many do you know
anyone in ORTHOPEDICX out there? I'mlike this one guy, do I know
anyone in ORTHOPEDICX? Yes? Andyou right away didn't even know. Jeff
and you read you guys talked andhe works through. I just you're it's
(08:15):
too bad. We can clone youand make more. Doctor Cohen's in this
morning, all right, so wegot riva. Yeah, you guys are
gonna stay and compete, right ourphone of friends, all right? Review
of call in eight two one WTBNeight two one nine eight eight six or
one hundred and six ten WTBN goahead. It's all about cars, cars
I don't know, and cars andTV shows. I can't this for you,
(08:35):
boots. Oh and one more thingfor you, Hoopie. The guy
you know, the guy hit you? What does he know? The guy
hit you, yeah, okay,he owes you a beer when you're out
of age someday, because I raninto a guy, I'll tell you a
story on Break This Raw, MidianBoots and Radio six ten WTBN
That's all right, but you can'tgo wrong. All you have to say
is perfect weather. It's seven endof story. Yep, that's all you
guys say. It will be eightthousand degrees next month and it'll snow and
three. So we have such atreat for everybody listening. Right now.
We have a young man who hissophomore year in high school and what's the
name of your high school? Downuntil the coffee unioda high school sophomore year
had a horrible injury. Broke hiscollarbone. It's on broke his collar bone
(00:25):
in three different places, is thatright, Doctor Cohen? Three pieces,
Yes, three pieces on the footballfield during a game. For some people,
you might think that's his throwing arm. Is his career over? When
you break a collar bone like that, Doctor Cohen did a miracle, which
he does on so many different people. And you had surgery through you talk
us through the surgery what you hadto do, and then the recovery process.
(00:47):
Because now he's better and stronger thanhe was before. Yeah. So
the nice thing about a broken boneis that it heels with bone, so
it's going to be as strong asit was before you broke it. So
that's different than some other tissues thatwe deal with, but in Newton situation,
he had this. Well, wecould one of the pieces was pointing
kind of up and down in avertical fashion, and when we see that,
(01:07):
we know that those are gonna behard to heal. It just mean
that there was a big trauma anda lot of soft tissue that wraps around
the bone was stripped off. Soreally what we do is we just psychle
puzzle. We put the pieces backtogether and hold them together with a plate
and screws, so metal plate andmetal screws, and then it's just time.
You know, it's nice when they'reyoung and healthy and eat well and
care about what they what they do, and they don't smoke. I mean,
(01:29):
all these things are important for healing. And also listen, I mean
obviously when we're fixing something, wegot to be careful for the first six
to eight weeks. That's how longit takes for the bones to heal.
So he followed instructions, which wasgreat, but also, like a great
kid, he wants to get backand be active, so you know,
this was not something that was goingto keep him down. This was something
that was only going to make himstronger and him and him myself and his
(01:53):
dad. Comments are just about hiswork ethic and you don't see that a
lot, and that's important. Hopingon METI cool guy, understand this.
You got a piece of bone thatyou had on a table. Will you
put it back? Yes? Ialways picture a bone as like the marrow
or the middle of it or isthat what you call it? How does
that know how to reconnect? Ordo you how do you fix that part?
(02:14):
So if you think about it's atube, okay, okay, and
the tube's actually holloway at least inthe clavicle, so and it's it's like
a jigsaw puzzle. You take thepieces and you're fit the back together like
they like you would on a table. But you do this inside the incision.
Now, then I think his incisionis very small, and we do
it very in a vertical. Wedon't expose the whole fracture. I want
(02:36):
to protect as much soft tissue aswe can. So really it's just get
the two main fragments back together,fix them, and then bringing that third
piece to kind of how do youslide it between I'm sorry, I'm not
salized. How do you slide itdown between all the muscles and don't tear
it all. So the clavicle isvery superficial. If you feel your own
collar bone, it's right underneath theskin. Okay, so you know there's
(02:58):
not a lot of muscle or tending. It's broke right here. Yes,
it's right there. It sounds likeit would take months to recover from something
like this. Newton, How longdid it take you for you to throw
football again? Six weeks? Like, that's unbelievable to me. You have
that much of a break in yourcollar bone laying on the six weeks.
Yeah, how does it feel now? Great? I can I can do
(03:21):
anything. I feel like stronger nowright. Yeah, first time you threw
that football after this surgery? Whatdid it feel like for you? Again?
It was weird? Really weird.It was, but because like the
whole time, I was like,how in the world am I going to
be able to throw again? Likeit didn't feel like it was even possible.
But I threw it the first timeand it was like I've never used
(03:44):
my arm before. It was weird. Did you ever think shame it wasn't
my other shoulder, because in yourmind, my mind, I'd be like
out of all the sides, it'sat my throwing side. It's a shame
I didn't break this side. Hardto use, right, Yeah, if
this family couldn't get even better.His brother, there's a receiver, I
know, so I feel sorry forIt's a little brother. So if he
puts it on his numbers, he'sgoing to be number one. You got
(04:06):
to love. You're going to yellat em even twice as much. So
be nice to your little brother.Yeah, I've always been the little brother.
Big brothers or a little brother alwayscomes to the sideline. Lets us
all know how open he always is. He didn't even look at me.
Dad, as as his father andhis coach. You have the opportunity right
now to say whatever you want todoctor Cohen, who's in the room with
(04:28):
us right now, who basically I'mgonna say it, he basically saved your
son's arm. Yeah, he youknow, he knows how much he means
to us in our family. Anduh, you know, anytime that there's
an injury of any sort with anyof our athletes, um and I hear
about it. He's the first personI refer him to. Um And and
a lot of people will take meup on that, and uh, it's
(04:50):
just you know, we're just gratefulto be able to have someone like that
in our community that does such agreat job. And the turnaround time is
is so quickly. Like you know, these kids are you know, their
their their mental makeup is so fragilewhen when something like this happens and you're
able to get him in to theyou know, to the best to the
best in the world so quick andget them back a lot of times better
(05:12):
than maybe when they went in.You're not exaggeratingly say that he really is
a world renown. Caught myself whenI said it, but it's true.
Yeah, so, um, thelast thing for you to say. And
I think what you've touched on.He's young, so he's going to heal
better, but everything that he wasdoing in the way he was living his
life helped with that recovery. Yeah, I mean, you know, I
mean, he's a good kid.And you know, you don't you just
(05:35):
watch, you know, I getthe video of him probably two days after
the surgery, in the in thegym doing you know, his other his
left arm exercises. So you know, when you have a kid like that
that they're gonna not only listen.But they're gonna they're gonna have a good
outcome. You know. The otherthe other part that that we didn't talk
about is you know Newton works outworks out at a gym that that we
(05:58):
use a lot for our post surgeryathletes AP Prep and Chill Coffee and Jason
Prater and his team Drew Irvan.I mean, these guys are dedicated to
what they do, and more sowith these kids that are coming out off
of injury. So any of ourathletes that live locally that I give them
the opportunity to go to AP Prep, I'm on my dime because I think
it's really important to have that nextstage of therapy that you can't get.
(06:24):
You don't get with traditional therapy.It's a return to sport therapy. You
see this, you know around thecountry at like d one or you know
there are places in Cincinnati that havebut you know, and we have it
in Chillcoffee, but it's not reallyas advertised. But AP Prep does a
great job and we send all ofour athletes. How do you give him
the green light to throw? What'sthe I don't know if I gave him
(06:46):
a day after seeing me in theoffice six week green light. I'm kind
of learning some new stuff here,but yeah, so it's a little it's
a little different. So bon boneinjuries are different than soft tissue injuries.
So the bones at six weeks andit's held is going to be as strong.
So he's safe to do it.Obviously, his mechanics, like he
said, it felt weird to pickup the ball and throw just because he
hadn't done it in so long.His mechanics were probably off and all the
(07:09):
muscles, but quickly the muscle memorycome back when you when you deal with
things like rotator cuffs or you knowsomebody who has a dislocated shoulder, that
you stabilize those soft tissues. Youhave to stretch out that soft tissue before
these athletes can throw. In afracture situation like news, the soft tissue
wasn't damaged as it would be anothersituations. So he was and he was
already working in incredible story again Andthis is this is the type of thing
(07:32):
that we love to share on RAWbecause I just don't think people realize how
lucky they are to have you ina central Ohio And like I said,
you help everybody. You're always opento help anyone at any time. In
fact, one of my best friendswho's from Colorado, his son pitches for
Ohio State and he had an injury. He took a line drive off of
(07:54):
his arm, and he immediately becausehe's not from Ohio, he's from here,
but he's living out, you know, in Colorado, has been for
years, and he automatically texts me. He's like, many do you know
anyone in ORTHOPEDICX out there? I'mlike this one guy, do I know
anyone in ORTHOPEDICX? Yes? Andyou right away didn't even know. Jeff
and you read you guys talked andhe works through. I just you're it's
(08:15):
too bad. We can clone youand make more. Doctor Cohen's in this
morning, all right, so wegot riva. Yeah, you guys are
gonna stay and compete, right ourphone of friends, all right? Review
of call in eight two one WTBNeight two one nine eight eight six or
one hundred and six ten WTBN goahead. It's all about cars, cars
I don't know, and cars andTV shows. I can't this for you,
(08:35):
boots. Oh and one more thingfor you, Hoopie. The guy
you know, the guy hit you? What does he know? The guy
hit you, yeah, okay,he owes you a beer when you're out
of age someday, because I raninto a guy, I'll tell you a
story on Break This Raw, MidianBoots and Radio six ten WTBN
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