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Preseason games mean nothing ... unless someone gets hurt during them. So far this preseason, despite the changes in offseason routines, it doesn't look like injuries are either significantly increased or different.

It's the same kind of injuries we've seen to the same kind of players. An early season run on Achilles tears seemed to be some sort of problem, but a closer look showed a simple cluster, not a pattern. Our brains want to see patterns, to find reasons, but in small numbers, those patterns are tough to find and seldom exist. Quantum entanglement aside, it's hard to find a reason that a rookie RB tearing his Achilles in Detroit would have much to do with a veteran long snapper tearing his in Tampa.

We have torn ACLs like always. We have concussions -- or "apparent concussions" if we use the new terminology that the NFL seems to like suddenly. We have some broken bones and torn tendons. These injuries are part of the game but they're something fantasy players have to avoid and minimize in order to win. Let's take the first of our weekly looks around the league at the fantasy-relevant injuries that will change our rosters or in this case, our draft strategies.

Then again, we have to remember that we can make a difference. This year, I've focused a lot of time and effort into getting heat illness as much awareness as the concussion problem. While concussions can't be fixed without significant changes to the game, there's no excuse for letting heat illness take one more life. It was a bad year, losing players and even a coach in Texas, but the message is working. Here in Indianapolis, after the Indianapolis Star ran an article on what could be done, it worked . I can't tell you the feeling I got when Nat Newell sent me the article. All the medheads out there need to keep working. Dr. James Andrews once said to me that he wanted his legacy to be that he put himself out of business. I know how he feels.

Epidural Herniated Disc - Spinal Disc Doctors.com

Epidural Herniated Disc

This is Dr.Ron Daulton Jr. Today we’re going to be talking epidural for a herniated disc . But before we can get into how this works, the success rates and that sort of things, we need to understand first what a spinal disc is and herniated disc is in roder to make this sense.

Let’s take a look in the picture on the left hand side of the screen. What we’re actually looking at here is that we’re looking at the spine from the side. What you’ll see is that there are two bones that are stock on top of each other, and in between these two bones is a spinal disc.

Spinal disc is very important because they serve two major purposes in the spine:

1. They act as cushion or shock absorber every time you move

2. It has a special type of ligament that holds the bones together.

If you take a closer look, what you’ll see is they have strong outer covering which we called the “Annulus Fibrosus” and then it has a soft jelly in the center which is called “Nucleus Polposus”.

Let’s take a look at that picture from the top down. What I”m outlining here on the right hand side of the screen is the disc. And you can see the outer covering and the jelly in the center that we talked about. One thing that you need to notice is what’s right behind it. Because this is going to be really important which we’re talking about epidurals and how they work.

Notice the spinal cord is right behind the disc and then you’ve got the spinal nerves that leaving your spine to try to communicate with your body. The nerves are really important because they control everything inside of your body and they’re very sensitive. So if you have pressure being applied to them they’re going to stop working properly and cause you pain.

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