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Priest Holmes Discusses Latest News From His Doctors Regarding Surgery
Kansas City Chiefs running back Priest Holmes was a guest on The James Brown Show on Sporting News Radio. Holmes talked about his neck injury and recent test results and advice from his doctors that surgery is not necessary.
The James Brown Show airs 1P-3P ET nationwide on Sporting News Radio. If using any of the excerpts below please credit The James Brown Show and Sporting News Radio.
Priest Holmes on what the doctors have said about his football career "They still haven't made a definite decision on the career, but I can tell you one thing, in terms of some of the tests that we received back, in terms of having surgery, that's definitely ruled out. I'm really glad to hear that because they said at one point there might be the need for surgery to return to football. But at this point right now, they feel from the tests and the positive feedback that I was given, that definitely surgery was ruled out. One of the things we still haven't had the chance to get the green light on, and that's the ability to go ahead and play for the remainder of - not for this season, of course, because I'm out - but return for next season. In terms of having more tests done, I have another three months to go before I get another evaluation, but I can tell you what, not having the neck surgery was really good news."
Priest Holmes on why he doesn't need surgery "Surgery isn't required because at the point on the neck where the pressure was building up, I am right (at the level) before you actually bruise any part of the spinal chord area. So, it's not quite a bruise. I know at the beginning, a lot of the media coming out of Kansas City reported that there were lumps or bruising or different types of things going on like that with the neck. But I'm actually a few degrees before it became a bruise, and that's what they have definitely been trying to protect me from, and that's the reason for sitting out the last month. But in returning, the concern and the red flag and the risk was that if I return too early, that I could possibly take a shot similar to the one in San Diego, one that you don't see, and that would cause the bruising. And once the bruising would set in, then that's where you're going to have problems with there being too much pressure impinging on your spine. So, therefore, you have to have that surgery there to extend that spinal cord column area in order to relieve that pressure."
Source: Sporting News Radio
The James Brown Show airs 1P-3P ET nationwide on Sporting News Radio. If using any of the excerpts below please credit The James Brown Show and Sporting News Radio.
Priest Holmes on what the doctors have said about his football career "They still haven't made a definite decision on the career, but I can tell you one thing, in terms of some of the tests that we received back, in terms of having surgery, that's definitely ruled out. I'm really glad to hear that because they said at one point there might be the need for surgery to return to football. But at this point right now, they feel from the tests and the positive feedback that I was given, that definitely surgery was ruled out. One of the things we still haven't had the chance to get the green light on, and that's the ability to go ahead and play for the remainder of - not for this season, of course, because I'm out - but return for next season. In terms of having more tests done, I have another three months to go before I get another evaluation, but I can tell you what, not having the neck surgery was really good news."
Priest Holmes on why he doesn't need surgery "Surgery isn't required because at the point on the neck where the pressure was building up, I am right (at the level) before you actually bruise any part of the spinal chord area. So, it's not quite a bruise. I know at the beginning, a lot of the media coming out of Kansas City reported that there were lumps or bruising or different types of things going on like that with the neck. But I'm actually a few degrees before it became a bruise, and that's what they have definitely been trying to protect me from, and that's the reason for sitting out the last month. But in returning, the concern and the red flag and the risk was that if I return too early, that I could possibly take a shot similar to the one in San Diego, one that you don't see, and that would cause the bruising. And once the bruising would set in, then that's where you're going to have problems with there being too much pressure impinging on your spine. So, therefore, you have to have that surgery there to extend that spinal cord column area in order to relieve that pressure."
Source: Sporting News Radio