Agent Tom Condon positive about Indianapolis Colts QB Peyton Manning’s return to NFL – NFL News
A new optimism about return of Indianapolis Colts’ quarterback, Peyton Manning, from a neck surgery to play football again has emerged in the face of his agent, Tom Condon, remarks that the player has improved consistently well since the surgery in September
2011.
Condon said that nerves in the player’s triceps were regenerating and he was positive about his recovery and comeback.
He said:
"The regeneration is continuing, his strength is much better, and so we feel really positive about it and he's determined to play."
In spite that doctors have cleared Peyton Manning to play again, the player is yet to pass the team’s physicals to prove his health and fitness.
This is something that the player’s current employer, Colts’ owner, Jim Irsay, had dually pointed out. Not only Colts, the player will have to pass physicals of any team he potentially can join in the future in case of a rejection by Irsay.
Furthermore, the clearance to Peyton Manning to start playing and throwing again does not mean that the player is able to throw the ball at the previous length and power.
To make that happen, he will need to wait for the nerves regeneration and gaining firm grounds in the triceps, which can take a longer period of time.
A section of media has quoted an anonymous orthopedic surgeon, who has the knowledge of Peyton’s surgery, as saying that the player is probably going through a dormant period of his recovery, when the recovery is so much slow as to give an impression of
a very little or no progress at all.
The surgeon said:
“Usually there's a long dormant period, where nothing's happening. Then you start to see that improvement. Sometimes the nerve can be asleep for months, and then you see a flicker, and then accelerated recovery. It's not unusual to see a long dormant period,
then the re-nervation period start and go to steady recovery."
The doctor, yet, expressed his great hopes about the recovery of the player, and added that once nerves are generated and gain full strength, there is a little possibility of their degeneration. It could be a possibility at later part of the life of the
player.
He said that Manning’s case was more of his ability to gain previous strength and that can be determined by applying a trajectory of the progress that the player has made over past few months.
This can help a team to calculate the current level of strength in throwing arm, as compared to his other arm, which is unharmed.
Again, the latest comments from the player’s agent have almost set a tone of that trajectory, proving that the player has made a significant amount of progress since his surgery in September last year.
Moreover, with the doctor’s assurance about the less likelihood of nerves’ degeneration in the remaining years of the player’s football career, any team around the NFL can safely pursue Peyton Manning’s hiring.
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