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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Joe Flacco and Trey Hendrickson. We do

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Speaker 1: this every single week. We chat with one of the

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Speaker 1: experts from Orthos Sincy Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. I say

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Speaker 1: this every week as well that the great thing about

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Speaker 1: Orthosinsey is they have specialist locations and services all over

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Speaker 1: Dr Matthew Grunkeemeyer from Orthosincy is with us. All right,

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Speaker 1: so Joe Flacco is dealing with a sprained ac joint.

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Speaker 1: What is an ac joint?

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Speaker 2: Sure, the ac joint is that may knuckle that on

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Speaker 2: the front of your shoulder or the shoulder blade meets

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Speaker 2: up against the collar bloom. You can and feel it

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Speaker 2: on most people when you land on your shoulder typically

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Speaker 2: is when you sprain it. And yeah, it can be

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Speaker 2: pretty painful.

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Speaker 1: So what's done to determine the extent of the injury?

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Speaker 1: Are there different grades that sort of thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they sure are. Yeah, hopefully it's just a grade

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Speaker 2: one sprain. That's where there's no separation between the two

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Speaker 2: bone pieces on the knuckle. If the grades go higher,

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Speaker 2: they go all the way up to six. That just

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Speaker 2: is an increasing amount of movement of the bones away

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Speaker 2: from each other, which obviously as the grades get higher,

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Speaker 2: the injuries get more severe and take longer to heal

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Speaker 2: and sometimes even necessitate surgical repair.

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Speaker 1: All right, so the recovery process, the timeline could be

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Speaker 1: all over the place. What is the typical recovery timeline

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Speaker 1: if there is one for an injury like this.

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Speaker 2: You know, if it's you or I and we sprain

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Speaker 2: it and we rest it for a couple of weeks,

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Speaker 2: and it's a low grade injury, we might recover in

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Speaker 2: a week or two. But when you're talking to an

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Speaker 2: NFL caliber athlete, the mount force that's going across that

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Speaker 2: shoulder when for example, they're tackled, it could be tremendous,

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Speaker 2: So it could take a little bit longer. But these

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Speaker 2: guys are so tough they sometimes play through injuries like this,

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Speaker 2: not uncommonly, so you'll have to see.

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Speaker 1: And when you do that, you obviously run the risk

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Speaker 1: often of making the injury worse. How much of that

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Speaker 1: is in play here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's a big concern, and I think

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Speaker 2: that's why the trainers are gonna That's why they say

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Speaker 2: is kind of a touch and go situation. It might

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Speaker 2: be even up towards game time. They kind of see

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Speaker 2: after he's warmed up and he's able to move around,

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Speaker 2: how it feels and how stable the shoulder is, and

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Speaker 2: it feels like he can go, he may go.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Trey Hendrickson, who is being

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Speaker 1: sidelined with a hip injury. Didn't practice. This was originally

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Speaker 1: reported as a back issue, now it's a hip problem.

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Speaker 1: Didn't play against Pittsburgh, played against the Jets, reaggravated the

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Speaker 1: injury in the second quarter, then didn't come back and

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Speaker 1: play the rest of the game. He's also considered day

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Speaker 1: to day. Does the fact that he was able to

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Speaker 1: play through the pain for a while against New York

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Speaker 1: give us some idea of what the specific injury might be.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably more in the order of the sprain.

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Speaker 2: I think, you know, if there was a tearing or

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Speaker 2: more significant injury, probably unlikely he'd be able to get back.

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Speaker 2: But nonetheless, just like with the shoulder situation, strains can

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Speaker 2: vary in their degree of severity, So a more severe injury,

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Speaker 2: obviously than wouldn't assess a little more time off. So

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Speaker 2: hopefully he's going to be able to rehab this and

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Speaker 2: get back.

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Speaker 1: You hear all the time about like hipplex or strains

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Speaker 1: and hit pointers, and then there's you know, injuries that

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Speaker 1: are more severe. Walk me through the process of making

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Speaker 1: the distinction.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, more severe injury would cause them some mechanical symptoms,

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Speaker 2: maybe some more clicking or locking catching and probably have

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Speaker 2: to get an MRI to diagnose that, see such as

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Speaker 2: a label caear or something more significant, even the stress structure.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully it's more just you know, soft tissue injury that

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Speaker 2: you know, he took the joint too far through arrange

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Speaker 2: of motion. Uh, that injured it. But hopefully we'll come

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Speaker 1: What do you do with somebody during the week between

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Speaker 1: games if they're trying to play through something like this, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: You know, the trainers are going to be able to

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Speaker 2: assess their strengths, their balance, their ability to move both

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Speaker 2: you know, in a sprint and lateral and see if

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Speaker 2: they're safety to get it back out there in the field.

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Speaker 2: You know, you obviously don't want to see him. One thing,

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Speaker 2: you don't want to see them you're guarding the joint

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Speaker 2: because then something else could get injured or they could

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Speaker 2: injure that further.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes total sense. Doctor Matthew Gruckemeier from Ortho Sincy.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate the time and the insight. We say it

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