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The Pittsburgh Steelers had one of the NFL's worst secondaries last season. The group of Antwon Blake, Ro s Cockrell, William Gay, Mike Mitchell, Will Allen and Co. were repeatedly victimized down the field as the Steelers ranked 26th against No. 1 receivers and 22nd against No. 2's, per Football Outsiders' DVOA. They were particularly ineffective against deep pa ses (28th). NFL preseason Something that might have helped them be a bit more effective is the presence of 2015 second-rounder Senquez Golson, who was one of the best players in the SEC as a senior at Ole Mi s. He intercepted 10 pa ses and was named both to the All-SEC team and as an All-American. However, he unfortunately mi sed the entire season due to shoulder surgery. Now, the Steelers may be without Golson for most of 2016 as well. He was carted off the field during Monday's practice and NFL Boone Logan Jersey Network is reporting that he could mi s 12 weeks due to a Lisfranc injury. Ouch. and I were just told LOUSY news for the . CB Senquez Golson has a lisfranc injury that could keep him out 12 weeks Aditi Kinkhabwala (@AKinkhabwala) Here's some more information on Lisfranc injuries from a NFL.com had with Dr. Robert Anderson, then the chair of the NFL's Foot and Ankle Committee, a few years ago. What exactly is a Lisfranc injury?A Lisfranic is often mislabeled as a midfoot sprain. So a sprain is basically a ligament injury in any part of the body, but in this situation it's the midfoot. In most cases of athletes, it's not nece sarily a bone injury, but a ligament injury. The ligaments of a midfoot joints rupture and the joints become unstable and shift out of place. ... You can have some small bony emulsions or chips injuries occur if the ligaments do pull off. Then these joints become unstable and when they become unstable guys can' Jeremy Jeffress Jersey t push off. So a lot of the complaints guys have when they leave the football field with a Lisfranc-type injury is that, "Hey I don't have any push-off or explosion." They'll have these symptoms and then they'll have a tremendous amount of midfoot pain and swelling. They are injuries that unfortunately take a long time to recover from because when the injury occurs in the midfoot area, basically that's the top of the arch and that's where a lot of the stre s goes on a running athlete. In order to push off or power through the foot, you have to have a stable midfoot.You have a lot of experience with Lisfranc injuries through the NFL Foot and Ankle Committee. Could you provide some background on the committee's research about this injury?We've been working on this project since about 2005. Back in the 2000s, we saw a tremendous rise in foot and ankle injuries in the NFL and we were trying to figure out why this was happening. This has been an ongoing project of ours, trying to figure out why we have so many Lisfranc, turf toes, high ankle sprains and those kinds of Christian Yelich Jersey things occurring. What we have basically found out is that it is multi-factorial. It's a combination of the players being faster and stronger, having higher energy injuries and the fact that probably the shoes have changed -- lighter weight and more flexible, bending at the wrong place perhaps -- and then then role of the artificial surface comes into play. What we're finding basically is that when the cleat engages with turf, if it doesn't release at a certain level of torque, then injury can Aaron Rodgers Jersey occur. That's why we're seeing so many ankle injuries, ACL injuries. We're aren't blaming this on anybody. We're aren't saying it's all the artificial surface's fault. It's not the shoe maker's fault. It's certainly a combination of multiple factors.... The owners of the NFL have contributed a tremendous amount of money to investigate these injuries. We've already investigated turf toe and Lisfranc, and now we're investigating the high ankle sprain. We're trying to find the exact mechanism of the injury, what level of torque these injuries occur at and then work with the shoe companies and the turf companies to try to minimize that. It's a real wrestle because the players want performance, so they're looking for more traction. Yet, we're trying to reduce exce sive traction to maybe decrease torque and injuries. It's a complicated balance.How long does rehabilitation take for such an injury?The question is do they need surgery or not need surgery? We see a lot of stable Lisfranc injuries that don't require surgery. But because the ligaments are still stretched or damaged in some way, it could be 6-8 weeks before a player can come back from even a non-operative Lisfranc sprain. There's some doctors and general managers in the league that basically think that if they get a player with a Lisfranc injury, even it is non-operative, they will go ahead and put him on the (injured reserve list).There are situations where the Lisfranc needs to be operated on. If the joint is out of place or has a bone injury or has significant instability, then those are reasons for surgery and surgery is basically done to stabilize those joint injuries with a combination of screws or metal plates. That Josh Hader Jersey can take 5-6 months to recover from surgery. I tell most of the players, it's not a career-ending injury, but it certainly can be a season-ending injury if they have to have surgery.It's obviously a serious injury for Golson, and it could be a while yet before he's able to help a Pittsburgh secondary that is still in need of bodies. |
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