Wednesday: Out for the Season

Dr. Jason Garrett talks about Tyreek Hill & others to miss the remainder of the season, plus strengthening your abilities to do more/longer cardio.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Time to visit with doctor Jason Garrett from a ROSSI.
Good afternoon, Jason. Let's get underway with Tyreek Hill. We
saw another gruesome injury on the football field the other day.
And what's Tyreek looking at with multiple ligiment damage, a
dislocated kneecap and potentially nerve damage.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, it looked terrible and usually that injury is to
potentially be life threatening. You could lose your leg. It's
frequently career indoing because there is a massive injury. Somehow
he managed not to disrupt the blood supply, didn't rupture
any arteries back in the back of his knee, which
is extremely lucky. Does have a little bit of nerve damage,
but the nerve wasn't severed, so it'll fully heal. And

(00:44):
I think you already had surgery. The biggest thing is
ACL PCL was also torn and the MCL, but those
are pretty common to be torn together. Some inniscus damage
as well. They said the surgery was very successful and
the surgery expects him to be ready to go by
the beginning of twenty twenty six. Say, it's miraculous that
he didn't have more damage. The fact that he's so
muscular and so athletic probably played a big part in it,

(01:06):
and just a lot of luck.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yeah, he is one of the fastest guys in the NFL.
How much speed could he lose?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
That is a great question. I would be shocked. If
he has the explosiveness he has now, he'll probably, I guess,
kind of best case scenario if he could give back
to ninety percent of what he had before, that would
be a huge success. It is a big injury. Anytime
you completely dislocate a joint, especially a joint as big
as a me there's gonna be a lot of complicating
factors going forward, even if he makes a full recovery.

(01:34):
The psychological impact of just knowing that something like that
can happen again, He's gonna have somesd PTSD from this
for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
All Right, we heard the other day that Anthony Davis
had a detached retina. He'll wear goggles for the rest
of his career, kind of like what Kareem did back
in the day and others have done as well. How
much protection does that give and can that get detached
again with contact or physicality some way?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Yeah, most of the time when you get a detached retina,
it's from either it just happens. You don't really know
why it happens. It happens from trauma like bungee cor
jumping or getting hit really hard, and so wearing goggles
will prevent at least a traumatic part of it. If
it happened just because you know he's prone to it,
then there is enough there was a chance it could
happen again. Imagine how good this guy could have been

(02:21):
if he didn't have every injury in the under the
sun every single year.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah, he was really good in college and he was
destined for a big NBA career, but one injury after
another has kind of slowed him down. All right. Deerren
Fox says he's got a hamstring issue that he's been
dealing with for a few weeks. There's possibility he won't
play for the first four or five games of the season.
How do you manage hamstrings so that they don't reoccur

(02:47):
all year long where you can kind of just try
to get rid of him and get it out of
the way and hopefully don't reaggravate it.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yeah, that is a It is so daunting. Once some
guy has a chronic hamstring issue, it's usually not a
hamstring album. It's a muscle imbalance, So something between the quads,
the hip flexers, and hip flexers is the muscle and
your stomach that goes from your stomach basically down to
the front of your hip. It's tssed to your spine.
Usually it does the exact opposite action that your hamstring does,

(03:13):
and for whatever reason, some people are just prone to
straining that hamstring over and over again because there's a
moving imbalance just the way they move. You can try
your hardest to recondition them, to train them, but I
mean doing things one way for twenty plus years of
your life at a high level is really hard to undo,
especially with professional athletes that rely on their athleticism. He

(03:34):
can do his best, they'll do a good job with
trying to get it, but it's it's one of those
things where it's maybe a lingering thing going forward, especially
since he's been out of thing since July and usually
doing nothing gets the hamstring back in about eight weeks.
And I promise you they've been doing everything they can,
so he should have been back a lot sooner.

Speaker 1 (03:50):
So, and everything is connected the hip, the hamstring, the knee,
the quad, the calf, the ankle the achilles at some
point you're putting stress, right, Yeah, and.

Speaker 2 (04:02):
It's either gonna take a toll somewhere else like you
saw like a ptel or tendon a low back, or
it's gonna be a recurrent hamstring issue.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
All right, Let's go to one of the things I've
always kind of wondered about, as especially as I've gotten older,
is when I walk a lot, like when I was
in Scotland. I don't get physically tired, like I need
to go to bed or something like that, but things
ache like your feet. So are there muscles that you
can train or work on or stretch out, or you
lift weights with or something to give your stronger feet

(04:32):
so that walking a mile or two or ten doesn't
hurt as much.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Yeah, this is a tough one too, because there are
muscle exercises you can do for your feet. For the
intrinsic muscles. You can wear certain things. There's things called
like yoga toes or toe pros. You can look them up.
They can strengthen those muscles. But there's really no way
to prep your body for walking long distances unless you've
been walking long distances. Though. One of the best things
to do would be make sure you're fully hydrated, you're

(04:57):
rested well, you recover between and if you've gained a
few pounds, lose some of those before you're going to
be walking a lot, because that every ten pounds magnifies
the impact on your feet. And so assuming you can't
do all those things, make sure you have the proper footwear.
So things like golf shoes sometimes aren't the best for
your feet. They're good for golf, but they don't always
promote the best foot positioning for long walking. So get

(05:19):
some orthotics, get some good shoes that are fitted for you.
That's probably the easiest solution because it's really hard to
do those other things long term.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
All right, we're getting into the cold and flu season
here pretty soon, as the weather's about to change in
a few weeks. What is the benefit of zinc and
other supplements that people could take to kind of stave
that off a little bit.

Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yeah. If more people knew about the benefits of zinc
and vitamin D and the way they work together for
your immune system, I think COVID would have been a
much lower issue for most people. Would have been not
nearly as infectious. People wouldn't got nearly sick. Zinc plays
a huge role in your immune system. It just allows
your the immune cells to attack viruses, to create antibodies

(06:01):
a lot more efficiently than if you don't have it.
Most people are zinc deficient. And the great thing about
zinc is you can buy a bottle of it the
last six months for like twenty dollars, even a pretty
high level one, super cheap. You should be taking it.
You should be taking that with some vitamin D and
probably some magnesium. Get all of those things, get some
good sleep, and your means of sym will be skyrocketed.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
I got all three of those in the repertoire, so
I'm good right there. Last thing, and I didn't ask
you this on the text today, but my partners on
the UTSA broadcast and even some at the radio station
give me a hard time for drinking a lot of
coconut water. And I've replaced coconut I replaced tea and
soda with coconut water, and everything I've read says it's

(06:42):
good for you. Am I on the right path there?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, as long as it's not sweetened, so it's coconut water,
and it's got the natural antioxidant's the natural electrolytes in it.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Got stevia in it. Is that okay?

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, Stevie is fine. It's not gonna raise your blood sugar.
It's not going to raise your glucose level. You just
don't want to drink coconut water that's been Sweden with
any real sugar, because then you're basically just giving yourself diabetes.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Yeah, and you're and I well, I was on that
path a few years ago until I finally listened to
you and a few others.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Yeah, now you're much better off for it.

Speaker 1 (07:14):
All right, Thanks Jason. We'll see you next week.

Speaker 2 (07:16):
All right, thanks Dadie.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
All right, that's doctor Jason Garrett. We're trying to keep
everybody healthy and go over all these injuries as they
happen and what's in store for these athletes as they
try to recover and get back to the field some
way or another. All right, diego. Pavia has opened his
mouth and an unlikely source is giving him advice on
what not to do. We'll tell you that next as
Andy gets ready to play Bama this weekend. On the

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