00:00From back spasms to going under the knife, what kind of bacterial infection in his lungs would
00:06cause an athlete to have to get surgery and miss around a month of game action?
00:12Oftentimes what can happen is that people may have had a cold or a typical virus and then
00:18what can happen is that sometimes that can make you a little bit more susceptible to other bacteria
00:23coming in. So you can have what is called a superimposed bacterial infection. So a lot of
00:29times the general population will have these colds and if the symptoms linger and the medical
00:36community start to worry about, okay, is there a bacteria that's not going to set in where the
00:39virus was taking hold before? Let's say there's a non-pro athlete that experienced the same kind
00:45of bacterial infection in the lung. Could that potentially be fatal? And what's their rehab and
00:51recovery like compared to a Vincent Trocek? It certainly is something that could have even in
00:57himself could have expanded to like a sepsis type picture where it was more of a systemic whole
01:04body infection. That certainly could happen. If the bacteria got to his bloodstream, it could have
01:08been an even more serious situation. And that can happen in the general population just as likely.
01:14In an elite athlete and people who are healthy and take care of themselves and do a lot of cardiovascular
01:19exercise to begin with, they are going to be at a higher reserve and have much more capacity to come
01:25back
01:25a little bit quicker than someone who is not necessarily as healthy initially.
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