Napheesa Surgery

[Sonny44]

How do you know that?

Simple, lost time.

 

[Sonny44]

Beautiful just beautiful, even in Hospital dud's!!

Baby face.

 

[Fiftyish]

Where is Rosemary? I hope we get another Rosemary..

Good question. Who fills in for Rosie while they search for a replacement? I'm sure the kids need attention even over the summer.

 

[ochoopsfan]

Coincidence that the hospital gown is purple, considering the current events?

 

[UConnCat]

Sue Bird had surgery to repair torn labrums in both hips in consecutive years. I recall the the rehab period was about 8-12 weeks.

 

[HoopsFan21]

Heal fast Napheesa! We're gonna need our dynamic duo of KLS and Collier to be ready to go for summer practice.

 

[connboy77]

Napheesa is one of a kind! Get well soon.

 

[Baroloboy]

Delurking because I actually have experience with this surgery. It's the same hip surgery Omar Calhoun had and also A-Rod. Typically 4-6 months is seen as an ideal recovery for a regular person, 4 before you can start running and 6 before you start cutting, jumping and other BB related activites. It can take a lot longer than that based on complicating factors like extent of damage, age and arthritis but that probably doesn't apply to Napheesa. Maybe they can push that because Napheesa is an elite level athlete and the amount of resources she'll have access to her in recovery but I would guess not by much. It takes a while for the surrounding leg muscles to recover from the trauma of even arthroscopic surgery.

As for training maybe she can do upper body weight training but anything high-impact or heavy weight bearing lower body training is probably off the table for a while.

Hopefully Phee will recover sooner rather than later. She has the potential to be an elite player and her performance in the tourney showed flashes of what could be. But if it turns out that it will be 6 months before she can even start practicing hard it might be another two months just for her to return to her end of season form and maybe another two months after that before we see the sophomore leap. In these circumstances does anyone think Geno and Phee would consider redshirting?

 

[HoopsFan21]

Hopefully Phee will recover sooner rather than later. She has the potential to be an elite player and her performance in the tourney showed flashes of what could be. But if it turns out that it will be 6 months before she can even start practicing hard it might be another two months just for her to return to her end of season form and maybe another two months after that before we see the sophomore leap. In these circumstances does anyone think Geno and Phee would consider redshirting?

Why? They say she will make a full recovery before fall.

 

[bags27]

Napheesa must have played through a lot of pain this past season. We didn't know that when we were saying we had hoped you would progress faster. We apologize. Thank you, Pheesa.

I think most of us thought she was great. Had a mid-season slump, but came on like gang-busters at the end. Great freshman year!

 

[hardcorehusky]

So as a freshman, she was this effective learning Geno and the system, the college game and managing a torn labrum in her hip? She could be even better than we imagined once healthy

 

[Henry]

This seemed lost on the other thread, so:
From her Facebook: (Don't know how to get pictures)

She tore her labrum before season started - with the help of Rosemary, the trainer, was able to manage the pain and make it through 'til the end. Today she gets it fixed! ⛹ if you know Napheesa Collier, you know her love for reading. Yes, that's a good thing MOST of the time - but the flip side is, she's now convinced she will be awake but paralyzed (so she won't be able to tell them she's not "really" asleep) causing her to feel all of the pain. she gets it from her Mama! Ha!

Back "home" (hotel for the weekend) with us. The doctor was FANTASTIC and said everything went well - bigger tear than what they thought- but he fixed the bone protrusion and repaired the labrum.
Thank you for the texts/calls/FB posts and messages!
Love to everyone. — with Napheesa Collier.

BTW it is the hip, which is probably a "better" place than shoulder.

She played like she did with a torn hip labrum??!!! Can't wait to see what she does when healthy.

 

[Tenspro2002]

She played like she did with a torn hip labrum??!!! Can't wait to see what she does when healthy.

Omar Calhoun was solid as a freshman before getting the same surgery, and he was never the same player after that.

I wouldn't necessarily view this as a positive.

 

[HuskiesU]

Get well Napheesa! I just Lve Pheese and Lou toughness. Next year they will not shy away for more greatness. Uconn isn't use to losing right and next year is supposed to be a down year right?? Well to think how hard what uconn accomplished is just beyound discipline, unselfishness and well coached. So don't think for one second that Lou & Pheese isn't aware of this CHALLENGE. They gonna lose some games during the next 3 years but im still putting money on Uconn comes the last 6 games.

 

[UConnCat]

Omar Calhoun was solid as a freshman before getting the same surgery, and he was never the same player after that.

I wouldn't necessarily view this as a positive.

Sue Bird had this surgery on both hips (consecutive years) and was back playing after both surgeries in 3 months.

I thought Omar's surgeries were more complicated and involved repairing bilateral hip deformities/abnormalities.

 

[JaniceT]

Sue Bird had this surgery on both hips (consecutive years) and was back playing after both surgeries in 3 months.

I thought Omar's surgeries were more complicated and involved repairing bilateral hip deformities/abnormalities.

The abnormality is a bone impingement or overgrowth that prevents the femur from moving smoothly in the hip socket which over time with a lot of strenuous activity leads to a tear in the labrum. That's the protrusion that Napheesa references in her FB post. Most people have the bone impingement on both sides but surgical intervention is typically only used on sides that are symptomatic. Having bilateral surgery pushes the recovery time back because they can't do both at the same time as you need at least one 1 leg to be weight bearing. If I remember correctly, I read Omar had the second hip done a few weeks after the other.

If Sue didn't have an impingement and only had the labrum repaired her recovery would be faster because the procure would be less extensive.

Here's a link to an overview of the condition Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)-OrthoInfo - AAOS and a more athlete specific article The newest surgery in sports: Hip arthroscopy

 

[UConnCat]

The abnormality is a bone impingement or overgrowth that prevents the femur from moving smoothly in the hip socket which over time with a lot of strenuous activity leads to a tear in the labrum. That's the protrusion that Napheesa references in her FB post. Most people have the bone impingement on both sides but surgical intervention is typically only used on sides that are symptomatic. Having bilateral surgery pushes the recovery time back because they can't do both at the same time as you need at least one 1 leg to be weight bearing. If I remember correctly, I read Omar had the second hip done a few weeks after the other.

If Sue didn't have an impingement and only had the labrum repaired her recovery would be faster because the procure would be less extensive.

Here's a link to an overview of the condition Femoroacetabular Impingement (FAI)-OrthoInfo - AAOS and a more athlete specific article The newest surgery in sports: Hip arthroscopy

Sylvia Fowles had the surgery (labrum tear and impingement) at the end of March in 2014 and was back playing 20+ minutes/game for the Chicago Sky at the end of June, 12 weeks later.

I'm prepared to wait and hear from the UConn staff on Napheesa's recovery time.

 

[Henry]

Omar Calhoun was solid as a freshman before getting the same surgery, and he was never the same player after that.

I wouldn't necessarily view this as a positive.

The difference was that Omar relied on his 3 point shooting and driving ability. Napheesa can shoot 3's but her game is more about passing, rebounding and defense.

 

[boontonbomber]

More proof that Rosemary may be the toughest one to replace.

 

[OldAlum]

Our hope is that there is a protégé ready to step in for Rosemary. With the quick exit after the season, it seems likely that she knew for a while that she was leaving. So quite possibly there was some time to consider who the next trainer would be before she left. It would be nice if it were an in-house person as I think the level of trust would be higher to start. I'm sure there will be an excellent trainer, but it is always difficult to get that working trust with a new person.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Napheesa Collier #24

Get well soon!! Hope you're feeling better now. But don't push it!

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Wow... the 2 freshman this year are TOUGH! First we found out the Lou played through the first half with a broken bone in the foot, and now we find out that Napheesa played through a WHOLE season with a hip labrum tear, and played at a high level w/o any fear. I am really impressed.

Wait, didn't KLS break her foot in the FF game? It was broken before that? Where did that come from?

 

[cferraro04]

KLS did break her foot in the final four...the "played on the injury for a half" was a reference to KLS injuring her foot in the first minute of the game and then played nearly the whole first half.