Injury Recoveries Require Ample Time

Injuries are an unfortunate yet often inevitable part of sports. When you’re lucky, you deal with fairly minor issues that require just a week or two of recovery time. However, major injuries such as ligament tears, concussions and bone breaks are just an inherent part of physical sports.

Coaches of young athletes need to explain the value of a patient recovery. Injured youngsters often lose patience and want to do anything they can to resume their usual activities. By talking about injury recovery strategies, coaches can help their players properly nurse existing injuries or prevent future aggravations. Whether it’s at a practice or through a team website, this subject is very important and worth the time spent. Even the very top athletes in the world know that injury recovery is a serious process that should not be hurried.

Texans express patience with injury of star player

When the Houston Texans selected Jadeveon Clowney out of South Carolina with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL draft, they expected him to quickly rise to the league’s elite class of pass rushers. Yet in Clowney’s very first official game, he tore the lateral meniscus and damaged the articular cartilage in his right knee, according to ESPN. He returned at points in the season, but was never the top prospect the Texans had hoped for.

Clowney recently had microfracture surgery on the knee and his team has shown a good understanding of the lengthy recovery process.

“That surgery requires a pretty significant amount of time that you are not weight bearing, and then you kind of [have to] work yourself back to it,” said Texans general manager Rick Smith, according to ESPN. “That’s the thing he can control right now. He understands that. It’s an arduous process for him because he’s limited right now in what he can do.”

Rose took his time with recovery

Derrick Rose, the starting point guard for the Chicago Bulls, took plenty of time to recover from his latest ACL injury. Many fans questioned his dedication to the game. However, Rose and coach Tom Thibodeau understood that such a severe injury should never be rushed, ESPN reported.

“Any guy that’s coming back off an injury or a surgery, you [have] got to make sure. What you don’t want is a guy out there laboring and then something else happens,” Thibodeau told the news outlet. “So just be patient, let him work his way through it, it will be good in the end. He’s doing fine.”