00:00This is the Injury Report, presented by NYU Langone Health.
00:05Jets rookie tight end Kenyon Sadiq is back on the sidelines after suffering a setback following offseason hernia surgery.
00:12Head coach Aaron Glenn has expressed confidence that Sadiq could return for the regular season opener,
00:17expected to be out a couple of weeks and should be back by the starter season.
00:20But the exact nature of the setback and the full recovery timeline remains a bit unclear.
00:25So, what can cause a player to regress after returning to practice?
00:29What will Sadiq have to prove before he's cleared for full contact football?
00:34And how concerned should Jets fans be?
00:36Joining us to break it all down is Dr. Daniel Kaplan, an orthopedic sports medicine and shoulder surgeon with NYU
00:43Langone Health.
00:44You see him there. He's here with me now. Dr. Kaplan, how are you doing, sir?
00:49I'm great, buddy. How are you?
00:50I'm doing good, man. I'm doing good.
00:52But let's start with this. I like starting to define the injury.
00:56For fans who hear the terms hernia and sports hernia used interchangeably,
01:01what is the difference and how might the type of procedure affect the recovery timeline?
01:08Yeah, so that's a great question to start because I had the same question when they kept throwing the term
01:12hernia around
01:13because there's two different types, like you mentioned.
01:15So, one is the hernia you think of like your dad's friend, their bowel pooched through the abdominal wall.
01:22So, intestines are coming out. You can see it.
01:24You can push it down and you need to close that gap in the wall to prevent that intestine from
01:28coming out.
01:29That's what a conventional hernia is.
01:31For a sports hernia, something more that an orthopedic surgeon would deal with,
01:35that's when the abdominal wall actually separates a little from the bone that it's attached to in your pelvis.
01:41That is something usually due to the leg muscles or the adductor muscles pulling really hard on that bone in
01:48the opposite direction.
01:49And it's a tug of war that the abdominal wall loses.
01:52So, those are the two types of or big buckets of hernia surgeries there could be.
01:56We don't know which type he had.
01:58And I actually tried to look, do a little detective work to see if I knew who the surgeon was,
02:03but they haven't released that either.
02:04So, I'm not sure.
02:05When it comes to treating sports hernias, are there any differences when it comes to treating a professional athlete as
02:11opposed to a non-athlete?
02:13Any differences at all?
02:15Yeah.
02:16Especially for a sports hernia, I would say the biggest thing is for a non-athlete,
02:20this is something that typically responds very, very well to physical therapy.
02:24It's not like an urgent surgery where you have to rush to reattach something.
02:28So, for the average person, normally I make people do like six weeks of PT for a lot of shoulder
02:35conditions or abdominal conditions before surgery.
02:37This is one where I need you to do three full months before we would talk about surgery for the
02:42average patient.
02:43Things become much more complicated when you're a professional athlete because let's say you want to – you give them
02:48the same advice.
02:48Okay, do three months of PT and then it doesn't work.
02:51Well, now they've just burned three months and maybe they're into the season.
02:55Now they're losing the season because you were conservative.
02:56On the other hand, you have to think, well, are you going to rush surgery and take them out of
03:00preseason practice?
03:02So, you have to be a little bit more thoughtful, but you probably have them jump a little bit sooner
03:07at surgery to get that clock moving as opposed to more of a slow play.
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