New England Patriots’ Tom Brady recovering after foot surgery
Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, is recovering from a surgical procedure performed on his right foot, according to a source.
The source said “he’s doing great” after the operation.
Doctors who are familiar with this certain type of operation, but did not perform the surgery on the star quarterback, say that Brady will be wearing a walking boot to offer structural integrity to his newly repaired foot for about a month and a half. They
expect that Brady will be ready to play normally in training camp, if not sooner than that.
The success of the surgery was initially reported by a news channel in the greater Boston area.
A s***w was inserted into Brady’s navicular bone to try and prevent the slight stress fracture from becoming a complete fracture, and he should be good as new by the start of the preseason, according to the source.
The same source also said that the six-time Pro Bowler might even be able to take part in passing camps and minicamps during spring training.
Brady played for most of the 2010-11 season with a stress fracture in his right leg, but it did not affect him in the Patriots’ defeat at the hands of the New York Jets in Sunday’s American Football Conference divisional playoff game.
He participated fully in the three practices that led up to the Jets game.
Brady missed his first practice of the season on November 10, 2010, being listed for the first time on the team’s injury report as having a foot injury for that day. Since then, it has been normal to see Brady not participating in practices on Wednesdays
and being limited in the remaining practices of the week.
A National Football League source told a local newspaper on Wednesday that the injury and resulting surgery would not keep Brady out of the Pro Bowl at Aloha Stadium in Honolulu on 30 January, 2011. However, the league officially reported that Brady has
withdrawn from the game and will be replaced by backup quarterback, Matt Cassel of the Kansas City Chiefs.
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