re: Cole Henry update?

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Henry underwent laser treatment and dry needling to break up the scar tissue, and within minutes the nerve was firing correctly again, Jeff Henry said. He then went outside and threw without issue.


Sounds like LSU needs a new medical staff.

LSU doctors with all their resources couldnt figure this out.

Whatever Dr. he went to did this on sunday and minutes later he was throwing without issues? WTF is the training staff doing?

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Let me first preface things here by saying that I do NOT have any inside information into this case. If I did, I certainly would NOT be here posting. Let me also mention here that what I'm about to say, regarding my opinion, is still based upon speculations, so I do not want things misconstrued to where people are thinking that I'm bashing LSU's sports medicine staff.

BUT... I agree with you here, in that I'm a little disappointed in how his case has been managed. I've posted on TD before regarding the difficulties at diagnosing occult UCL injuries, and if this was an UCL injury, I could see the ambiguity of the sports medicine staff in this case. But... this is a median nerve injury. These things are not necessarily that hard to diagnose, nor to find the etiology of it. You simply follow the track of the nerve. It is most commonly pinched in either the cervical spine (neck); or at the anterior aspect of the elbow/forearm (flexor bundle... pronator teres most commonly), or at the wrist (classic "carpal tunnel syndrome."

We see these injuries ALL THE TIME, and they are very easy to find the causative agent, and to treat. I'm very disappointed that it took this long for someone to find the source of the injury. BUT... again... I can't fully speculate on what was done, and what was not done by the staff. Maybe Henry had other injuries further complicating things? I don't know, but from what I can gather here from the outside, I'm disappointed.

Hopefully, at least, this will be behind Cole now and he can continue getting stronger and be fully ready for next year. Its a win for Cole for sure, if he is indeed past this injury for good!