4 arm surgeries and now back surgery! http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap10...wski-might-need-back-surgery-for-chronic-pain I think this guy is going to have a very short career. Do you all think he's done?
Probably hurt himself spiking the ball. Shame if its true, even if he is a dickhead Patriot. If he really has chronic back issues he's a fool not to hang his cleats up right now and count his money.
Was wondering this myself. I think he probably has a couple of seasons left but he is a mess at this point and it isn't going to get better post-surgery. I'm thinking if I'm Gronk's GP I'm asking him why he is doing this for a living when he's going to be suffering heavily for the rest of his life. Money isn't everything. It can't buy you your health back when that's shot to hell.
What an idiot...when I think about how RG3 and others return from ACL injuries so quickly and then see how an arm injury is holding this guy back I've just gotta think he's not doing something right
when your bones dont heal correctly and you end up with infections deep in tissue its never good. maybe all the steroids he has taken are finally catching up to him? he is pretty much a tool so i really dont have too much pity for him.
I don't think it is steroids when he had 2 other brothers that reached the NFL for some amount of time. I mean I'm not saying they all couldn't have been on the juice but it is not like you just take steroids and instantly become a star. You still need the genetics/ability. This is probably something more along the lines of him not taking his rehab seriously enough.
It was an infection that caused the 3rd surgery, not sure why that would have anything to do with either steroids or rehab. This surgery he's getting now is to replace the plate with a new one. I'd guess he'll be back late in training camp or into the pre-season.
It'd be a shame for the player if his career is affected by these surgeries as he is a total beast in both in run and pass attack, but I won't feel bad for the Pasts.
It could be HGH use. They're the right age. They're not the only family that has had 3 giants of whom at least 2 reached the NFL.
I grew up and went to school with the Gronkowski family back in Buffalo. They were jacked back in middle school. Their father owns a gym. The talk back then always was that their dad was giving them HGH from a young age. This was before HGH was a recognized aid by lay people or reported much in the media. I have no idea what he's been doing or taking or not taking, but I find it interesting that it was a rumor back before it was even widely recognized among fans.
I wouldn't be surprised if up to 80% of the NFL had used HGH at some point or the other. I guess my point is that I doubt him using or not using PEDs is the reason for his arm/back issues.
of course its an assumption on my part, im with you beast i think that the better part of hte league is on some form of stuff. i think that all of the tendon type injuries we have seen in the past number of years are something to make you wonder, sure these guys could just be lifting enough to make hte muscle stronger than the tendon.... but thats just not how it works. typically a bone will break before a tendon and think of the very very few times you ever saw someone tear a tendon back before 1995 or so. its just not a typical injury. interesting boj... its a reality these days in sports, even in high school there are just so many kids using this stuff. the key here is that i think these things when they go in this fashion alot of times they take a tremendous amount of time to heal and never are quite the same. you come to the point where the bone just doesnt want to heal itself. a simple unneccesary injury just ruins a guys career.
imho there is an ammount of bad luck and some kind of mistakes trying to rush him back to this last season. Bad luck because he had played his first 2 regular season w/o missing one game, then he got that ankle injury, totally game-related, not a problem of endurance. Last season a broken arm blocking a extra-point, again, bad luck game related. At this point, there's no injury prone concerns , because he got these playing, not training or even result of the effort on training camp. I qualify someone as injury prone when there's knees issues, muscle recovery issues, ankles (in his case was due to a big hit), or those players made of glass that can't handle NFL and miss a lot of games. He got 2 full seasons, taking a lot of beat, making diving catches every game, rushing, fighting for yards after catch. But, I'm not a doctor but I think they made a mistake trying to rush him back last season on this broken forearm. They put a plate instead of let the arm heal naturally, he was not confident when he came back and got broken again playing against Texans. Then got the infection, now he's gonna replace that fucking plate, and other issues are coming like this possible back surgery. It's just too much surgery, invasive procedures leads to infection and other shit. Plus he's been spotted a lot enjoying the night life, which is pretty reasonable for anyone who works hard doesn't matter what you do for a living but alcohol is not a match for pro's. If you're on antibiotics it's even worse. You can't drink booze at all. I'm not saying he did, but, there are pictures avaiable over the internet. Tom Brady and Vince Wilfork should step up and take this leadership, if Rodney Harrison and Ted Bruschi were still on the roster this shit wouldn't be happening. They put the plate and he got back in the field in 2 months more or less, which is the timespan for the natural process of healing a broken bone with a cast, and he came back like in 80% of his capacity. So didn't work at all. And resulted in all the other consequences. Ok nobody has to guess what's going to happen, but for me and a lot of other people was just a stupid decision if you think in a long term, he's pretty young, if you lost him for the season ok, it's football, shit happens, still has a lot of season all along, and now dude is totally compromised. I think he will come back and play in a high level again, but they have to take care with all these off the field issues.
Surgery was successful, infection is apparently cleared, and that should do it for the forearm. Still TBD on his back. Either way he looks OK for camp. http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/extra_points/2013/05/source_rob_gron.html
HGH can do some weird stuff to the body long-term when it is abused to make kids huge. The developmental cycle gets all screwed up and people tend to wind up looking a bit weird. The neck grows too much. The collar bone becomes extended and brittle. Other fundamental pieces of the puzzle get skewed. When you use HGH on a kid with a growth deficit it can cancel out some of the deficit and the minor issues it causes are balanced out by the needed assist. When you use it to make a kid who is going to be 6'2" anyway into a 6'5" giant some real issues can occur. That kid's growth potential is already enormous. When you juice him during development things can get pretty strange.
