How does a guy like this get that extension?

He had similar heel pain last year prior to the Achilles, right? I’m guessing this has been there awhile.

Tell me this isn't happening..Heel NO!

I had Osgood Schlatter's Disease in high school. It's bone growth on the shin bone up by the knee. It aggravates the patella tendon as well. Sounds similar to what Berry has.

They cut me open and shaved down the bone. I was out 4 weeks before playing again. I imagine that an athlete like Berry, with a superior medical staff, can shorten the recovery time by a few weeks.

Eh, I was expecting the team to run him out there for a couple games before sitting him down for the year. Never heard of this.. bummer

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349338/


However the recovery period to obtain a maximum benefit following surgery is longer (6 months). The awareness for longer recovery period should be explained to the patients undergoing calcaneal ostectomy for Haglund deformity.

Clark Hunt had to fly to KC to get it done because Dorsey pissed Berry off about the medical stuff. I guess Dorsey wanted some kind of medical insurance or something. I think part of the reason why Dorsey is gone is that he didn't want to give Berry and Houston the big contracts they were demanding. Andy Reid wanted to keep them, along with Maclin and Jamaal Charles.

Reid won.

Id guess a lot about that surgery is how they have to go in to get at it. If up from bottom of foot I dont see how it would be a quick recovery.

I thought I read somewhere in that article a reporter had that same deformity while playing. The pain is always there you just have to deal with it. Different people have different pain thresholds.

LMAO Our team doctors can't diagnose shit. Do we expect him to just play in a constant state of pain the rest of his career? Get him to have the surgery and fix this shit. If that doesn't work, figure out a way to get him off the team.

That makes for an interesting story. Is it documented, or is this hearsay?

A Reggie Ragland deformity?

This.

I mentioned in a previous thread a pattern now of the Chiefs medical staff mismanaging the treatment/recovery of injuries to high profile players.

Justin Houston's knee injury... essentially hasn't been the same player since.

Jamaal Charles' second knee injury... essentially ended his career.

And now not previously diagnosing this chronic issue with Eric Berry's heel.