Tony Ugoh, Jerraud Powers, Kelvin Hayden, and Dwight Freeney are four of thirteen players held out of Colts mini-camp due to injury

I don’t want to hear about Feeney. No wonder PM is working hard with Eldridge, Giguere and Gonzalez. Maybe tight ends may get worked more into the playbook. Glad to hear #18 is feeling good.

Hayden, I hope his hamstring got taken care of. He had hamstring issues at least 5 times in two years.

but no one listened nor were worried =========
Heres a treatise

 as a disabled ankle surgeon so no practice since 1988 , and surely not up on the latest technigues but due take post grad courses to maintain an active , if not used license I can still say by now a " minor " grade 3 ankle injury should be healed unless he did more damage , and colts are for sure not saying, just that he is rehabbing so not participating in OTAs, or now minicamop today , from playing in SB 44. As I noted then he was risking increased tearing and damage to ligaments ends by playing and in 2nd half he was far worse than in first. If he did do increased injury he could of had surgery then and be healed by new season or at least not in worse shape. Note a pro player is also treated differently thgan non pros due to need to get back to playing so often treated more aggresively , though sometimes not and I traeted only a few colledge players and blackbelts

When the ligaments tear y=u want them to be immediately immobilized with ends juxtaposed on eachother, if a gap is present between ends or a delay in positioning the ends can get necrotic, that is die off somewhat so one then has no choice but to immobilize with ligament ends seperated . Then scar tissue fills in but the ligament ( s ) are now being healed in lengthy position, so ankle isnt held as tightly together when healed and the foot as a unit of stability for push off is lessened as is the spin move as with a longer thus losser ligament there is less strength and more chance of restraining the ankle . Did this happen , I dont know , We dont have the information, I know the Colt Drs are good as they fixed his foot fracture , a very tricky procedure quite nicely . Maybe they are just being careful, again we dont have the info in its entirely nor will we. This is all a speculative devils advocate.

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF MY FRACTURED ANKLE & then why a grade 3 sprain as a definition is not accurate

 , i had not only grade 3 sprain but high ankle with instabilty as well ( MEANING TORN ENOUGH NEEDING SCREW ) and needed surgical reconstruction of the 3 major ligaments on my outside of the ankle, as all were completely torn ( the grade 3 strain in its worse case )as well as some on my inside of the ankle, throw in the screw across the 2 leg bones for the instability of the high ankle sprain from overt tear of ligament / syndesmosis between leg bones, repair of bottom major portion of inside leg ( TALUS ) bone and both outer bumps ( the maleoli of both the talus and fibular leg bones as well as small fragment excision & / or repair with 6 screws and a metal plate and I healed and back at life in 5 months exercising .

I cant spaek for Freeneys injury, dont know what realy is wrong to what degree , but after 20 years my ankle still stable with all the abuse i put it through due to all my disabilities which are quite numerous

I want to see him on the field and just pray they got the ligaments to heal properly opposed at the tears and not with bad scar to fill in gap from any excess damage caused by playing ( especially since we lost ,not that itb woulkd be could if we won but would be easier on Freeney knowing he did it and gained something in return

 My ankle surgery was also 1 month after being let out of hospital ,after 9 months of putting on 95 ppounds before finally being diagnosed and getting 5 neck vertebrea operated on & then I got infected post op, then complications led to a seizure and fracture, So I had many things delaying my rehab do to permanent spinal cord problem and extra 95 lbs, in fact technically its taught what happened to my ankle should have been impossible. Freeney with immediate surgery would recover much faster.

 I know I am talking out of not knowing whats going on with him nor real degree of injury but untill hes onthe field at full spin move and bull rush speed I worry

The Last thing & I will stop, just because its a grade 3 only means there is a badly torn ligament & ankle is unstable but therre are 3 ligaments we are really talking about and we dont know how many are torn, Just 1 torn can be considered a grade 3 injury if ankle is somewhat unstable , I cant imagine all 3 are torn or there would have been no way he would have been allowed to play. If 2 were u are taking chances and some Drs would do surgery, 1 torn still taking chances but not as much.

THe Thing Is The forces of pro football I can only imagine. Freeney’s heart to win that game was giant. He had to play all out as best he could u know that. I just worry if things got worse. Some motion is OK during rehab from a tear as full time immobilization is no good causing a fragile bad scar type to aid in healing that can cause rerupture again from the bad scar formed in healing. Limited controlled motion while immobilized allows proper scar thats fine and may even heal better than original once absorbed by the body

 
Its just the stress of a football game , let alone the forces generated by doing that spin move in the SB with them knowing hes coming and what a double team can also cause injury by moving his ankle in an akwatrd state while already injured thats scarring me and dont want to be an alarmist , just want to see him back & spinning,

Note there is still time to keep rehabbing before preseason and be fine though overall his workout may not allow him to be at full strength right away.

  I did not mean to say he needed surgery, again I dont know the facts & may be playing devils advocate hear a bit to much . Just had to say my thoughts

“Treatment was time as much as anything, manual traction trying to relieve some things. Three times a day about 25 minutes apiece just got to be tough, very time consuming.”

Taking 75mins a day from him is simply not acceptable since he wants to work with his receivers constantly…. OMG, I cannot even imagine how good he and our receivers will be this year….. doesn’t mean we will be guaranteed a playoff spot or winning the SB BUT you can only see how fantastic it will be again watching #18 play….

CB was a huge weakness in the Super Bowl and is shaping up to be a major problem this year. Teams have figured out that even with great pass pressure it takes CBs to stop the quick pass.

but I was pretty surprised by how much treatment Peyton was requiring over the years. Wow. I hope that this indeed has addressed the problem and that it won’t be an “x marks the spot” moment for defenders.