Cams ankle is not right!

[tiger7_88]

He did it for the fans tonight...but he needs to have his ankle in a boot he limped and stutter stepped all night.... I know someone else saw this ...... he was moving smooth like normal and threw every pass off his back foot.

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I had elbow surgery 9 weeks ago and my elbow is still sore as fug.

 

And I don't have to have my entire body weight on my elbow.

[top dawg]

He did look like there was a slight favoring of his injured ankle, but hopefully he just has to get it in football shape.  The medical personnel, including world renown James Anderson, would not let Cam be out there if it was detrimental to his health.  And just in case RG3 came to mind, Anderson never cleared him to go back into the game.  Cam has been cleared. 

[Happy Panther]

[Beast_3000]

I haven't had surgery on my ankle, but I did once suffer a 3rd degree ankle sprain (complete tear of the ligaments in the ankle), my foot swole up like a brontosaurus, and I didn't walk for a month. Once I was cleared to start running and playing again, my ankle burned for probably another two months after I was "healed" and would still swell after physical activity.

Just curious how long did it take you to feel normal again.

[SuggestionBox]

Better get Matt Blanchard some reps!! :)

[Proudiddy]

Just curious how long did it take you to feel normal again.

It was back around '06, so my time frame is a bit rusty, but I know it was a couple of months even after they told me I was cleared to resume physical activity fully. Mind you, this is Joe Public on his own, not the franchise QB of an NFL franchise with a medical team monitoring every single movement made after he is cleared.

I'm sure they're using advanced approaches to aid in the recovery and reduce complications (like swelling) even as he is back fully cleared now, so I doubt it takes him months physically to feel 100% again.

My issue was making normal movements with force again (like jumping or crossing over in basketball), which would remind me that my ankle was still extremely tender as it would send sharp, deep pain surging through my foot and ankle. So initially, I noticed I would start to compensate for it naturally by making slight adjustments to my movement - like landing on your heel instead of the forefoot, as it wasn't as painful. I also noticed a problem with that ankle not sensing itself in space in relation to its environment like it naturally did before the injury (due to proprioceptors). If i jumped off that leg and came down, there were times that i hit the ground with that foot well before i expected to, because i had to reacclimate it to spatial awareness. That was fun... lol.

So, once I stopped having the residual pain from normal movements once I was fully healed, I had to re-program myself to go back to my normal movements and break those bad habits I developed to compensate while recovering. So, I expect some moments where he makes his normal movements and then pulls up a little as his ankle reminds him it is still recovering... furthermore, I expect it to affect his footwork quite a bit in the meantime.

I say all that because when people say Cam pulls up limping each day and then goes back to work as though it was nothing, I imagine it is because he is still dealing with that tenderness/soreness and working through those "surging pains" you experience once fully cleared. There is a huge difference between someone saying "you're 100% cleared," and you actually going out for that initial period under those conditions and exerting 100% of your ability on a weight-bearing extremity that recently underwent injury and surgical procedures.