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Our medical staff and Mike Williams neck injury
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Our medical staff and Mike Williams neck injury


Oct 26, 2015, 4:05 PM

Our medical staff should get a huge amount of credit for the way they handled Mike Williams neck injury. The preliminary tests, which they did immediately after they got to him, led them to take measures that very well may have saved him from surgery. Compare that to the way the Baylor staff responded to Seth Russell's injury. They let Russell sit on the sideline well after they knew he was injured. They should have gone through the tests immediately and stabilized his neck, but instead he sat (and walked around) on the sidelines with no neck brace for most of the rest of the game.

The injuries are a little different and you obviously can't know whether the delay in treating Russell has anything to do with the fact that he is having season-ending surgery. But I do know that our medical staff protocols would have treated the situation much differently.

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Oct 26, 2015, 4:30 PM

It could very well be because Russell stood up fairly quickly on his own power, while Mike Williams remained on the ground until our medical staff got there. I don't fault them honestly. Seth is a tough kid and probably tried to downplay it. Mike's was a peculiar play since he contacted the base of the goal post and Seth's was more of a normal football play. Hats off to college football medical staffs all around for having to deal with major shifts in how we have traditionally handled injuries. Tough, tough job.

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Athletic medicine is a tough, tough job at the college level


Oct 26, 2015, 4:41 PM

... and it continues to get even tougher with college coach's careers riding on key players getting back on the field, coupled with future NFL mega-contracts potentially being put in jeopardy by doctor's and trainer's decisions.

There is a tremendous amount of pressure and responsibility on doctors and trainers in college sports today.

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Re: Our medical staff and Mike Williams neck injury


Oct 26, 2015, 4:57 PM

For what it's worth, I talked to Mike on Friday (saw him in a local business, I don't know him personally), and asked how the neck was doing.

He said the recovery was going really good. So I asked him what the plan was on his return, he seemed to have a really positive attitude and basically said that a return was still uncertain, but that a redshirt was certainly a viable option.

I was really impressed at his attitude and if I had to guess, I don't think he will play this year unless we really get in a jam.

P.S. I think the neck brace is going to add an inch to his height :)

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