Thamel: Chiles out for OSU

Baz = Heisman

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I'm not happy about the general state of affairs in the sport either, but watching it is a choice. You can look away, but this weird passive-aggressive misspelling of the guy's name is sorta low rent.
We’ll see what your attitude is when it comes out he shut it down to transfer elsewhere.
 

Fanaticat98

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What's his injury, do you think? Was there a play vs. Oregon where we saw him get injured?
I thought it was similar for Jeremy Larkin, not necessarily a single play or hit but when he had some neck pain they did the scan and found he had some congenital problem that would risk serious spinal injury if he continued to play … I’ll have to look it up
 

NUcats92

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I thought it was similar for Jeremy Larkin, not necessarily a single play or hit but when he had some neck pain they did the scan and found he had some congenital problem that would risk serious spinal injury if he continued to play … I’ll have to look it up
Cervical stenosis.
 

phatcat_rivals223240

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There are players that have checked out (Tavien St Clair) but aren't listed as "out" on the injured list. I think if he was leaving but not injured, they wouldn't put him on there
 

Baz = Heisman

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I thought it was similar for Jeremy Larkin, not necessarily a single play or hit but when he had some neck pain they did the scan and found he had some congenital problem that would risk serious spinal injury if he continued to play … I’ll have to look it up
And that was announced right away. So if he had something like that, they’d say.
 
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Coach Braun did mention before the Iowa game that Aidan had seen a couple of specialists last week, so that makes me believe it’s a legit injury situation and not something non-medical as some have implied.
 

docrugby1

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I thought it was similar for Jeremy Larkin, not necessarily a single play or hit but when he had some neck pain they did the scan and found he had some congenital problem that would risk serious spinal injury if he continued to play … I’ll have to look it up
Larkin's career ended because of Congenital Cervical Stenosis. Post mortem studies reveal this is not an uncommon issue but diagnosed more commonly in contact sport athletes, when neurological symptoms develop after a contact neck injury. Historically, the diagnosis was made by the ratio of the spinal canal with the size of the vertebral body-this is not a reliable standard. Currently, the ratio of spinal cord diameter to the canal diameter on an MRI and other more sophisticated measurements are being used.
If these studies were done on all football players, you would see a significant number of players diagnosed with this congenital anatomical variation
 

docrugby1

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Larkin's career ended because of Congenital Cervical Stenosis. Post mortem studies reveal this is not an uncommon issue but diagnosed more commonly in contact sport athletes, when neurological symptoms develop after a contact neck injury. Historically, the diagnosis was made by the ratio of the spinal canal with the size of the vertebral body-this is not a reliable standard. Currently, the ratio of spinal cord diameter to the canal diameter on an MRI and other more sophisticated measurements are being used.
If these studies were done on all football players, you would see a significant number of players diagnosed with this congenital anatomical variation
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Purple Pile Driver

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Geezus, now we have a guy that is speculating that a player is not hurt and is sitting out to selfishly protect his earning potential when the Coaches put him on the injured list and we have had people in the know say he wanted to play. WTF. Not a lot of respect for either the Player or Coach here, but go ahead a plant that seed. We aren’t at the meaningless bowl game part of the season!
 
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