Saints are hiring guy from Boise State to be Director of Rehab

Finally getting away from Oschner staff. Although this is an admission their prior approach to rehab is an abject failure, I’ll give Gayle credit for this needed move.

Generally anything PT related west of the Rockies is going to be an upgrade over most of what goes on in Louisiana. Hope they give him full autonomy to revamp everything.

Source: being a PT for 19 years

ETA: I like his instagram page a lot. Looks like he was at ASU before and has done some work with UFC performance institute as well. Very young guy.

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Ochsner wasnt doing their rehab. He replaced a guy named Jonathan Gress who just left to go work at Oklahoma. Saints have always had their own staff. Why do you people keep making this shite up?

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Consider the source...

Ochsner has nothing to do with players getting injured. They only diagnose injuries , surgical treatment etc. saints staff does the rest. We have many injuries because the team was old as frick and we sign people constantly with pre-existing injuries. Sean Payton in January just hired the orthopedic doc from Ochsner for the Broncos.

Awesome!


I wonder how much playing time this lack of competency has cost us?

Not sure who cares around here. Don't get me wrong looking back can be good...like for fighter pilots and such.

They have the same amount of involvement now. Probably more because with the price of these contracts the physicals are more in depth. Plus players don't hide/play through injuries like in the past. Pretty sure the misdiagnosis was something like a micro fracture in his leg if I remember correctly. An unfortunate set of events that would have been hard to diagnose on anyone. No medical care will be perfect but I promise you they look harder at these players injuries more than the average Joe.

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Don't get me wrong looking back can be good...like for fighter pilots and such

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Honestly man been about a decade plus since I worked in Louisiana. I’m not familiar with Touro at all. I do have a lot of contacts in New Orleans so I can ask.

I knew a couple of guys at EJ outpatient who were very good as far as hospital based outpatient. In terms of private clinics Crane rehab isn’t far from touro. The guy at airline and lakeview PT and spine is also very good.

I THINK it’s the same in Louisiana as Florida but generally a hospital based outpatient is going to see you one on one. The trade off is USUALLY you may have a different one of many therapists seeing you. At a private clinic it’s a smaller staff so there will be more carry over but sometimes you’re double booked if not Medicare.

Yeah for sure. That’s why I gave him those three. I know for a fact they don’t do business like that.

Always comes down to insurance. Some insurances pay per visit and literally next to nothing at that. Hard to keep lights on and your staff paid if you’re single booking those folks. So the places that accept those are generally going to have less than inspired employees as they’re always swamped.