05-01-2021, 06:51 PM
(05-01-2021, 06:48 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Here's where I'm going to differ with you. In the big picture, his friend isn't the outlier, he's the norm. It's the ones who have procedures and return to continue at a high level that are the true outliers.
Until you've experienced the injury, felt the effects, rehabbed from it? You really have no idea of what is entailed by the generic term 'back injury" or "herniated disc". The real problem is regaining the confidence to go 100%, once the "healing" is done. I quote the healing word, because it's never fully healed. It's always weakened and suspect to relapses at any time. Over the nearly 20 years that I've lived with herniated discs, I've had some good stretches. Sometimes as long as two or three years between relapses, times where I was able to get back to near competitive lifting strength, able to compete in the sport of Strongman (save for max DL). A couple of things that I was never able to do again? Play football, straight up blocking was alright, but moving contact like on pulls or tackling when on defense? The shock just went straight back to my nerves. I also was never able to waterski again, a former passion of mine. The shock from all of the turbulence just travels right up my posterior chain and makes pressure on the nerves.
His case is obviously much different from yours because he actually started at LT for Clemson last year with this injury.
