Injury Murphy requires surgery

[Stig O'Hara]

There is a school of thought that has it that our younger bodies ran out of steam both in games and toward the end of the season.

Yeah, good call

Assuming he will be ok in Rd1, gives a terrific opportunity for others to have a run through the midfield, nice to test out our depth early, and see if one of the lesser rateds can stand out.

 

[Bluebear]

Why didn't they just bite the bullet when the injury was first noticed. Would have been half way through his recovery by now and a good chance to get a game or 2 under his belt come round 1. Hindsight I know, but the medical staff had an oppurtunity to put this to bed weeks ago.

Hi Harry.

When the injury was first noticed was only a week or so before Christmas (when Murph went from full training to light loads).

Are you suggesting that you should go for surgery, even if there is a good chance that two weeks off at X-mas will settle it down.
Why risk infection? He gets MRSA in that hip and his career is all but over. What if his hip reacts to the surgery and he gets a capsulitis and spends the next 6 months just trying to get full flexibility back let alone worry about kicking a footy.
What if he has a toxic reaction to blood products and ends up in ICU............

I could go on but you get the point.

Surgery has become so common that people minimise the risks in their own mind. ALL surgery involving a general anaestheitc has MAJOR risks associated with it and should NEVER be entered into lightly.

I have no direct knowledge of his injury, but if it is minor, allowing a couple of weeks rest to see if it responds is perfectly fine management. If he wasn't an AFL footballer you;d suggest longer before pulling the pin and going for the op.

Because our club has a history of trying everything excepth the solution that fixes the problem (see Jamison/Walker). We often leave things for ages but I think this may have been more dificult to make a decision on.

I'll add "the risk of adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)" to my rant above, and the fact that Walker DID have surgery as the first port of call......it just wasn't successful.

I'll state that again.

The initial surgery wasn't successful!!! Wow......so you mean that not all surgery is perfect and things can go wrong...........gee......never would have thought........

Yet another reason for not rushing into to an operation if there is a chance rest and light training will resolve a problem.

Here endeth the sermon.

 

[bigstyletiger]

I just had a cortisone injection in my hip this afternoon as i have a small tear in the cartiledge. I could have elected to have it cleaned up straight up but apparently with any hip arthroscopy of that type there is a risk ( i was quoted at 20 percent ) that it will not improve and could even get worse. Therefore I chose to have an injection. The doctor i had inject me said that he does a lot of AFL players and there are plenty of them running around with the same injury. I am guessing that this is a similar thing to what Murphy has.

Sounds like the Blues took the sensible option and tried other treatments first. Sincerely hope he is back for round 1. He is a terrific player.

 

[BlueVeins]

I froze when I first read that Murph had surgery. I'm fairly sure there are different degrees of surgery and if you start comparing to Stevie J and Houlihan then you'll need to bring in the exact problems with each of them.

As someone above said, he is young. And that's probably why they wanted to try and fix it without surgery, rather than disturbing all the tissues around it. By attempting to rehabilitate it first, it causes less disruption, but that didn't work, so I'm sure they had a plan that if it's not right by X (mid Jan) then we'll operate, so that's what they decided.

They're experts, have faith...after all, we're not North or something who are having players leaving for "better medical care".

After all, I'm sure they want Murph out there as much as we do.