11/30/23: Dr. Mark Yuhas From OrthoCincy, On Joe Burrow, Cam Taylor-Britt, And Logan Wilson

Dr. Mark Yuhas from OrthoCincy joined us to discuss the surgery to Joe Burrows wrist as well as the recent injuries suffered by Cam Taylor-Britt and Logan Wilson.

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Doctor Mark u haases with us.We talk injuries with one of the experts
from Ortho Sincy Orthopedics in sports medicineon a regular basis. And the great
thing about Orthos since he is theyhave specialists on locations across the Tri State.
They also offer walk in orthopedic urgentcare at five Tri State locations with
extended evening and weekend hours and Edgewoodand Anderson learn more at orthosinc dot com.

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That's Ortho c I n CY dotcom. Doctor Mark Uhas is with
us. Let's talk about Joe Burrowfirst, because he had the risk surgery
earlier this week, about a weekand a half after he originally suffered the
injury. Why was that the timeline? Well, that's a great question.
I'm not exactly sure about the timelineabout waiting, but there can be several

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reasons. One is to make surethat there's a clear diagnosis and that everybody
is on the same page. Andthat's probably the most important thing. Whether
it's a superstar quarterback or a patientwho has you know, done this on
the weekend and fallen. They wantto be comfortable with the plan and understand
why they're doing the surgery and who'sdoing the surgery, and so that can

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take time and that may be partof the process. Other reasons could be,
you know, to simply have someswelling go down, to make sure
there's a clear plan for rehab afterwardsand things like that. So there may
be some some physical reasons for itto be done a little bit later as
well. But you know, thetiming is is always individualized. It's not

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urgent necessarily to do that right away, but that may be a factor about
why it was delayed a bit.Yeah, keeping in mind that the timeline
is individualized, let's let's let's talkabout what's next. What is the most
likely path that he is going tofollow in terms of recovery and rehab.
I think it's a really important toknow that there are some factors that everybody

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has to go through. We wouldlike that ligament to heal, which means
we don't want to rush that,which means that we don't want to start
moving too early. With that beingsaid, every athlete is different based on
their position a quarterback versus alignment versussomeone else, and so his specific therapy

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may be tailored towards certain things.But but the basics are once we know
and are confident that things are healingwell. We start with simple things,
getting swelling down, moving fingers,then moving the wrist with simple motions,
then moving the risk with more complicatedmotions, finally to strengthening, and then
football activities usually. So all ofthat has progressed, and there's such a

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great team and I'm sure they're atherapists, there are physicians working with him
all to guide him along the way. And you know, the risk is
such a complicated joint. It's nota simple hinge joint. It's not a
ball and socket joint, and sothose those complicated movements that make it such
a beautiful joint, you know,can take some time to get back as
well. All right, let's let'stalk about the the later end of the

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time. And obviously he's not goingto play in twenty twenty three. Zach
Taylor has ruled out him being ableto play in the playoffs if the Bengals
were to make it. And so, okay, what about next season would
you expect based on what we knowabout these types of injuries, would you
expect him to be on the fieldwhen training camp starts in late July?
I think assuming what we know oryou know, some of its speculation not

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knowing every single detail about the injury. Typically, these types of injuries would
be you know, I've heard fourto six months something like that to start
some football activities seems reasonable. Icertainly think that that is a realistic expectation.
And yes, I do think thatthat would be a timeline that would
be consistent with this type of injury. Typically. The two questions here about

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Joe moving forward, should there beany concern about this injury affecting his future
performance? Again, I think thatyou know, every athlete has these types
of injuries and challenges that that occur, and and you know, whether it's
a ligament injury, whether it's abroken bone, there's always a recovery process

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that can be unpredictable. With thatbeing said, I think with knowing what
we know about how these injuries arerepaired, uh, the resources we have
now from are from a medical standpointagainst therapy and and some of the surgical
techniques, I don't think that thatwould be an issue. You know,

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the other side of this equation isthe patients in the athletes and the amount
of resolve and the amount of determination, and you know, everything that comes
with becoming a professional athlete that helps, you know, with a recovery process
and and not having any limitations inin along or so I certainly would be

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you know, confident that that anathlete like like himself would be have everything
available and everything, you know,basically self driven to be successful in the
future. All Right, One moreabout Joe Burrows specifically, because I think
this is a concern that a lotof people have, and so I want
you to address this because you obviouslyare an expert and you have a medical

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background. I think folks see thatJoe in a relatively short amount of time,
has had a number of injuries.Right, you had the calf earlier
this year, Now you have thehand, you had the knee injury that
he suffered his rookie season. Forwhat it's worth, it was you know,
also the appendectomy last year, whichis a little bit of a different
type of issue. But should therebe concerns as his career progresses about the

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cumulative effects of having a whole bunchof injuries that he's had to deal with.
I don't think so. I mean, all the things you've listed are
really you know, isolated kind ofseparate things. There's there's not one link
to another. And you know,truly, you know, it's a very
physical sport. There are injuries tothe curve of different severities, and no,

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I mean I wouldn't see any connectionor any any concern for for you
know, long term, you know, being injury prone or or having anything
like that. It doesn't seem tobe consistent for for me when I hear
those things. Now, all right, uh, Doctor Mark ju Haas from
Morthos Cincia, is whether us There'stwo other guys I want to ask you
about. One is Cam Taylor Brittthe corner in that Baltimore game. He

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suffered a quad injury didn't play thispast week. I think there are there
are people who hear quad and theynot along, but they don't necessarily know
what a quad is or what itdoes. What's a quad and what does
it do? The quad is amuscle in your sigh. It's it's a
it's a large muscle that has multiplecomponents. It's it's a quadriceps muscle,

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and so it has different muscle bellies, you know, things that connect to
the knee. And one of itsmain functions is to straighten the legs,
straighten the knee out, and hadsome other functions to you know, move
the move the sigh and and andthe leg in different way. But it's
a large muscle, and it's kindof like the the counterpart to the hamstring,

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which is in the back of thethigh. This is on the front
of the thigh, and so it'sagain it's a large muscle that really is
important for certain movements of the legand the knee, especially obviously it's really
cold. Does can extreme temperatures impacthow long it takes for somebody to recover
from something like this or even foravoiding a recurrence of the same injury.

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I think the ladder point you bringup is probably relevant. Yeah, as
far as recovery, I think thatthere's ways to again stretch, ress,
keep it warm. But once you'reout in the elements and it's cold,
muscles tend to have a harder timeto stretch and warm up and they're more
prone to injury. So I dothink that that's a factor for the athlete
to make sure that they're doing whateverthey can to be stretched, warm,

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ready to go as much as possiblein cool weather and kind of staying on
that staying loose, you know,staying stress. All those types of things
are important. As the weather itgets colder for sure. All right,
one more guy to talk about,Doctor Mark Uhas from Orthosinsia is with us
Logan Wilson. The linebacker has aslight ankle sprain. Are there different grades
of sprains? What determines the gradeof the spring? Yes, there are

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different grades of sprain and you canreally, you know, you can tailor
the grade to the joints. Butbut you know, whether it's we've just
talked about the wrist sprain, sothat that's an injury that can be graded
as well. And the ankles,you know, has ligaments links so to
speak, between bones that help tokeep the joint stable. And we really

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grade the the injury based on theexam So if a patient's examined and something
feels looser, that that's one wayto help to grade it. We can
look at X rays and other imagingthings like MRI ultrasound sometimes and that helps
to determine the degree of the stretchinjury or the the tear injury, so

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to speak to a ligament, andthat those are the factors that help us
to determine the degree or the gradeof the frame makes sense. Doctor Mark
Juhas from Ortho since awesome insight man, thanks so much, thanks a lot
more. I appreciate you having meon much appreciate it, Doctor Mark Juhas
from Orthos since checkout Orthosinc dot com. I say this all the time.

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