Westbrook surgery a success

by JasonB on Jun 5, 2009 2:20 PM EDT in Philadelphia Eagles News

This morning Brian Westbrook went under the knife for the Eagles termed a "minor" procedure to clean up bone spurs in his ankle.

He did make an insicion and clean out scar tissue and then remove two bone fragments," Eagles trainer Rick Burkholder said today at the NovaCare complex. "Both of these fragments were in the back of the ankle."

One of the fragments was from the high ankle sprain Westbrook suffered last season in Week 3 against the Steelers. The cause of the other, Burkholder said, he couldn't determine.

"Brian texted us and said he was doing well," said Burkholder

There was some talk that the bone spurs had nothing to do with the sprain Westbrook sustained last year in week 3 against the Steelers. Personally, I found that hard to believe. Now we find that the bone spurs were directly related to that injury. It's pretty frustrating to see a player have surgery to correct an injury that happened last September. Now Westbrook will spend an estimated 6-8 weeks on the sideline this summer when he could be preparing for the season.

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Burkholder said that Brian would “come back to training camp in the best shape of his life.” Maybe it’s spin, but doctors usually tell it like it is.

by ajay on Jun 5, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

At this point

I don’t know how much good training camp does Westbrook. Getting in shape is what he needs, then a few knocks to get the cobwebs out. I’m more worried about his injury history than his lack of training camp.

At any rate, hats off to Westbrook, and get well soon to the little big man.

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by NJBammer on Jun 5, 2009 2:36 PM EDT reply actions

Now Westbrook will spend an estimated 6-8 weeks on the sideline this summer when he could be preparing for the season.

I suppose the silver lining here is 8 weeks that he can’t incur a new training injury :)

Also, in regards to missing training, Westbrook has always seemed to play at a high level despite very little preparation, at least during the season. I don’t think the missed time will affect him much, if at all.

by captain nodar on Jun 5, 2009 2:45 PM EDT reply actions

High Ankle Sprain

As for the comment about “It’s pretty frustrating to see a player have surgery to correct an injury that happened last September”, I can attest to how long an ankle injury can linger. I had the same sprain 7 years ago when I stepped into a hole at work. About 3 years ago I started having problems with that ankle. The Orthopedist told me that I have bone spurs and that they were caused from that sprain. At least B.W. is getting it taken care of now before the season gets going. The spurs could have reared their ugly heads at a much worse time and he could have lost time in season due to them. This is a simple procedure and he will be back and juking the daylights out of some Cowgirls before we know it.

by NileKinnickIronman on Jun 5, 2009 4:01 PM EDT reply actions

to be fair you didn’t have half the medical attention Westbrook gets, and you didn’t have specialists looking you over week after week. For a professional athlete there is no way this should have gone unnoticed. It is possible that it just recently started to form but if it was there in September, October, November, December … they should have realized it.

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by Whodie126 on Jun 5, 2009 6:26 PM EDT up reply actions

It’s not about how long the injury can last… It’s about how long before something has done about it.

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by JasonB on Jun 5, 2009 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions

i agree

if they indeed were keeping tabs, have confidence that the med staff does the thing best for the player, then the team. they would have stopped him then. i’m sure it’s something that has developed only as early as the start of the playoffs. anyway, what’s important is that he gets well soon.

by Bleediots on Jun 5, 2009 7:24 PM EDT up reply actions