Reinjury Might Not Jeopardize Peters' Career
Dr. Steven Cohen from the Rothman Institute says a second Achilles' tear during rehab shouldn't affect Jason Peters' chances to make a full recovery.
Reinjury Might Not Jeopardize Peters' Career
Les Bowen, Daily News Staff Writer
Jason Peters originally injured himself on March 27 while working out in Texas. (Clem Murray/Staff file photo)
It was alarming to learn that Eagles offensive tackle Jason Peters had suffered an Achilles' tendon reinjury and had to undergo a second surgery recently, but most people around the team never thought Peters was going to make it back to play effectively this year, anyway. The big question the second surgery raises is whether Peters will recover completely, say, by next year, or ever, given the seriousness of an Achilles' tear.
Will this change the outlook?
"Not necessarily," said Dr. Steven Cohen of Philadelphia's Rothman Institute. Cohen is an orthopaedic surgeon who works in sports medicine. "It depends on where the tear is. Whether it's retorn from the same area, whether it's in a different area. It can retear in the same area...or it can retear in an area that's weaker, slightly above or below the (repaired) area of the tendon... If it was in a different area, then it's similar to just a primary repair, and he's just now a few months behind where he was because of a new injury."
Cohen cautioned, of course, that he is not involved in Peters' care and doesn't know many specifics. He said if Peters reinjured the original site, that opens the possibility of "gapping," in which there wouldn't be enough material to make another sturdy repair, and muscle or tendon from elsewhere would have to be grafted onto the tear. That would be a complicating factor, but once everything heals, "there's no reason you wouldn't be able to play," Cohen said.
Cohen said somewhere around 1 to 5 percent of the people who tear an Achilles' experience another tear while rehabbing. According to Comcast SportsNet.com, Peters suffered the reinjury when the Roll-A-Bout scooter he was riding at home collapsed and he fell. The scooters, which look like a stool outfitted with wheels and a retaining bar in front to keep the leg from sliding off, are often used in such cases now in lieu of crutches. The ComcastSportsNet.com story said Peters intends to sue the Roll-A-Bout manufacturer.
'That's certainly feasible, given his size," Cohen said, asked about the cart-collapse scenario. Peters usually weighs in the 340 range. The carts supposedly will support about 500 pounds; it would be possible for a 340-pounder to exert 500 pounds of force on the cart. "Certainly any issue with a fall can reinjure that area," Cohen said.
The Eagles signed free agent Demetress Bell from Buffalo to take Peters' place this season, but that is a tall order, given that Peters was among the top two or three left tackles in the NFL last year, and was an excellent fit for the scheme of offensive line coach Howard Mudd. Very few o-linemean offer the size and speed of Peters, who entered the league as a tight end.
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L123, I remember seeing a feature on TV about Washburn and Mudd. Was it 60 Minutes? ESPN? Anyway it was about them taking a motorcycle tour through Africa after Mudd came out of retirement and what good friends they are. Very interesting piece. The Eagles have a good staff now. Will be interesting to see what they can do with a full preseason training camp and not have to teach on the fly. Should look like a more settled team.— tpizza- I agree – it will be interesting to see if they follow this article up with a piece on Howard Mudd. His teaching acumen is reason #1 that Eagle fans should have hope for this coming season. In fact I can’t remember if there has been a full Sunday magazine exposé on the Eagles’ veteran coaching staff - but there should be.
We hope good things for Jason Peters and his family during these hard times!
— Laughingaloud123 - Doubt he/she will. Much rather just talk football with true blue interested fans like you, bearsfriend, stik and others or even pessemists so long as they are objective...but we all need our amusements.— tpizza
- tpizza - …mirthfully brilliant! Do you think he/she gets it?— Laughingaloud123
- L123, I've called cg25 wiff on more than one occasion and still think he/she is one and the same. Too many similarities...inane arguments, extreme OCD, won't answer a direct question, won't admit to being wrong even when he/she is PROVEN wrong, thinks there is no possibility anyone other than he/she knows anything about football despite the lack of any apparent knowledge by him/her, takes minority views and thinks the majority drinks kool aid, uses constant kool aid references, cites stats when they help his/her cause and ignores those that don't, cherry picks facts, distorts facts, ignores facts, doesn't know what a fact is, can't spell, awful punctuation, he/she hates Reid, never gives credit where/when it's due, no objectivity, no credibility, wiff was a pinata while cg25 is the site's whack-a-mole game[same idea], neither has any pride, both use circular logic, both prove themselves wrong [constantly], when challenged they hide, lends nothing to the site, degurgitates the same BS day after day, master of the woulda, coulda, shoulda [ergo Hindsight nickname], lots of capital letters, banal catch phrases [Book it vs. Never Ever Ever], superiority complex to the max [as in the mouse that roared]...oh there's more but you get the idea.— tpizza
- @charlieG -- It's all in good fun. Hey - "easy on the meds okay!"— Laughingaloud123
lol, Laughingaloud123, at least you are somewhat adept at humor...I would stick with that. and the difference between me and "lonewolf" is that guy apparently changes his mind like every week. and he was in Iraq or something. For the kool-aid drinkers I must have been in Iraq all these years despite the fact that I have never stepped foot there once in my life. Good call...and the Eagles will win thier 12th Superbowl under Andy Reid this year. Its all coming together...- tpizza - I’m afraid you’re wrong on ChuckyG being a mere simpleton. I’ve figured it out (cue laughter) ChuckyG and Wolfie have the same Mom -- or at the very least they share the same brain.
Note the similarities: a total lack of fact or reason in (dare I say) their logic or in ANY of their arguments… Give me an example of a single valid or rational point that either of these “guys” made in the last year? That’s a trick question Re: @Nuggett.
The philly.com staff is attempting to pull the wool/fur over our heads. Think -- “Some Like it Hot”, not “Dumb and Dumber”. Both ChuckyG and Wolfie are the same lady journalist’s love child; and she obviously enjoys fictionalizing about the male libido on sports steroids.
I mean the evidence is overwhelming; there can’t be anyone this stupid or vain - think of this as philly.com's Ghost Protocol.
— Laughingaloud123 - Per PFT, Eskin is reporting that Peters wasn't on this "Roll A Bout" contraption but was actually walking when the 2nd injury occurred. My question is: how can Eskin know this when he lives in Andy Reid's colon 24/7?— younged
- Laurie & Reid inherited the problem with Peters from the previous owner, but didn't realize how truely serious it was at the time.— Mike in LA
- What's it take to get some luck around here? This injury is going to hurt the Eagles more than most think.— Craig321
- I generally like seeing the Eagles lose- since 2005 and at least until they dump the loser Reid- but I loved watching Peters play the last two years. He was playing HOF caliber L Tackle that I've only seen from guys like Munoz and Roaf. It's tough to get back from that injury when you are carrying so much weight. Hopefully he saved his bonuses, can start losing 100 pounds, and can get a job talking on TV.— jtj06
- Even Achilles didn't have this lousy luck— robinlupe
- hahahahahahaha oh, oh, the other 31 teams win the Super Bowl every year :) (tpizza: Please, drop your variation of "even an idiot could see..." It's a lazy debating tactic that only fools the weak minded; I know that you can do better!)— Warhound
- cg25, you didn't list DTs you listed NTs...big difference in size requirement. Really said when you aren't satisfied with the TOP DT in the draft...as if anyone cares. BTW, a NT is a Nose Tackle and DTs are what you have every morning...your agenda is showing, as usual.
penfold18, I get the sarcasm but doubt the one it is aimed at does. Too banal to see it.
— tpizza - EVERYTHING the Eagles do is WRONG, and EVERYTHING the other teams do is RIGHT! That's why all 31 teams win the Super Bowl every year! LOL! Some of the idiots on these boards truly amaze me.— Penfold18
- eagles have spent plenty of draft picks on ol in recent years so they can survive this injury...if rookies from cal marshall and georgia help on defense, they could be much better if they stay healthy...lb and safety were a disaster last year...— vegasphllyfan
- Clearly the takeaway message here is - don't work out.— hallux
- I think it means the Eagles will be drafting a tackle in the 2013 NFL Draft— Craigger
- that was very good analysis pizza. I would personally recomend you for a GM job, very impressive. Get your resume ready.
- Let's see...same redundant stupid comment from the first Peters article CHECK, Compounding it by saying acquiring an ALL PRO LT takes no brains CHECK, Saying all that Reid did was throw money at Peters which is completely inaccurate adding further stupidity to his post CHECK, AND throwing in the dumbest stat ever invented, the wins against winning team stat which is soooo stupid my 3 year old could shoot holes in it CHECK. Yep, that about covers it.
cg25...proving once again that stupidity is not confined to just one column per day. cg25...the Whack-a-Mole of philly.com. He pops up only to be smacked down again.— tpizza - Just get healthy JP, you have more than earned your money... hope you make it back.— trinieagle
- Look, let's not kid ourselves, the real blame is on LARRY BROWN, for not drafting Paul Pierce, instead of Larry Hughes!!
R.I.P. Jason Peters!— ol duke - Since when is 27 years old over the hill for an OL?— Penfold18
- CG25: Please, if the Eagles drafted a TE, and then tried to switch him to OT during training camp, you'd be ripping Reid & Co for being idiots for trying to turn a TE into an OT. Point being, there is nothing this team could do to make you happy, and I'm betting on the fact that that has something to do with your own short-comings, emphasis on short...but hey, keep your spirits up CG25, size doesn't matter...HA— JTR
- given this crack staff, they're probably already polling at the local hospitals looking for comparably uninvolved experts who will support the OTHER catchy headline .. Reinjury Could Jeopardize Peters' Career
— raoool - lol...yea uh, maybe actually DRAFTING JASON PETERS would be the smart thing to do. Then I would give credit to Reid. or maybe even PICKING HIM UP AS AN UNDRAFTED FREE AGENT AND MOVING HIM FROM TE TO OT like the bills did...again, then I would give him a ton of credit. Instead, he threw money at widely the best OT in football. That takes almost no coaching skill oncesoever. That is not a great accomplishment. And even worse, you get a guy who already has a few years of wear and tear on his body meaning HE IS MORE LIKLEY TO GET INJURED. SHOCKING. I wonder why Reid hasnt won a superbowl and is .380 against winning teams ? hmmm
- Aren't you one of the losers who constantly complain when the Eagles switch a player's position? — logicandreason
- arent you the guy that said last week I was wrong about sub 300 pound DT's being undersized...at which point I listed that 80% of pro-bowl Dt's last year were over 300 pounds...meaning the smallest 20% are in fact "undersized" allegedly. And the thing about the current Eagles is they usually try to switch some undersized guy to a position where even more size is needed. But switching a BIG player to another position where he can succeed CAN ACTUALLY BE A GOOD IDEA. (ie. nanmdi being a former Safety to CB...Al Davis did that...or Peters from TE to OT...the bills did that)...all of the Eagles attempted switches ARE STUPID IDEAS, which is why I SAY SO. but OTHER TEAMS, actually utilize bigger players, which is often A GOOD THING. Which is why others teams switches actually work, whiles the eagles fail or get mediocre results. Switching bigger guys to smaller positions is a good idea, switching smaller guys to bigger positions is stupidity.
- "... all of the Eagles' attempted switches ARE STUPID IDEAS"
…you mean like Todd Herremans’ switch to Tackle from Guard or Jamaal Jackson’s switch from Guard to Center? Soooo happy you’ve researched all of this for us Chucky!— Laughingaloud123 - umm, come on. really ? this is getting tiring...teams shuffle guys on the 0-line so often I DONT EVEN CONSIDER IT A SWITCH. I am talking about actually switching positions where different skill-sets are needed, not shuffling guys along the 0-line. Every team in the league moves guys along the 0-line so I dont even count that....but when they actually try to move guys to new positions like making a running back play Fullback, or a college Safety play LB...it goes horribly to not so good. The Eagles have never "switched" a guy besides 0-line who became a pro-bowler at the new position like other teams have. NOT ONE TIME. Oh wait, Tony Hunt and Keenan Clayton made the pro-bowl 5x times each, my bad. Andy is a Genius.
- hopefully they can find a few more doctors who are unfamiliar with Peters' case to guess at his prognosis.
that would certainly be interesting.
— ekw555 
Warbiscuit - I share no love for Amaro but I wouldn't necessarily say he's an idiot, he probably knew as well as we did that Howard was a long shot this year. What burns me up more is he banks the entire offensive season on two guys he had in the lineup when we got shut down completely but the Cards for 4 playoff games straight. One year after the same guys whiffed out the joint in San Fransicso in elimination. Anyone with a brain has to know they need more offense and only and idiot would think guys on the tail end of their career are going to suddenly play like they are young again. He takes orders from above just like Andy Reid does, he's not king of the castle over there and he has a budget. I think his four aces philosophy stinks, it would be ingenious if we had an offense that wasn't in steep decline. So he spent all his play money on pitching and now he doesn't have any left when he needs it for hitting on a rainy day. Whether that was truly his plan or Monty's is anyone's guess.- One thing I do know................This Sucks!— Geno D
- unlike clueless rube, who decided that he would "hope" Howard would simply have a miraculously speedy and compete recovery from his achilles injury, Eagles took the intelligent approach in this case and signed a replacement -- not this this diminishes from the pain and suffering suffered by Peters... fans rip Reid but Amaro is infinitely more of an imbecile— warbiscuit
- Yes, they should have signed someone like Albert Pujols as a backup...just in case. — joeibt
- Penfold18- You got it all wrong it's the goalies fault, Bryz should have caught him before he hit the pavement. It's going to be Phil Whinaden's story tomorrow.
- Clearly, Reid should be fired for this fiasco. He absolutely should have known in 2009 when he traded for Peters, the 27 year old Pro Bowl left tackle, that 3 years later Peters would tear his Achilles not once but twice in a span of two months.
There, now it's been stated for the morons. Let the rest of us have an intelligent conversation.— Penfold18 - They signed a promising, young OT in Demetress Bell to a five year deal. The Eagles can move on. Best wishes to Jason Peters. He gave them a few good years.— soulman386
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