if his back still hurts, why is he playing? For a young kid like this on a crappy team like this, there's no sense in toughing it up and playing.

He will have surgery after the season and clean up his disc.

Its no big deal if thats all it is, but if he has surgery now he is out two months.

Prop him up on Cort shots and Pain killers just to get him to play....... Just to show you didn't draft damaged goods.


What an organization!!!

Posted by Elite:

this is the most disturbing news of this early season

HAVE SURGERY GOD DAMN IT DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

back surgery? on a 19 yr old? that would NOT be good. the back just takes a while to heal. they shouldn't rush him...



also, the quote towards the end of the article where the team is now privately questioning his desire to play is baaaaaad news. the gallinari era doesn't seem to be off to a good start.

This is a big disconcerting since he he still says he has pain. I doubt the team is sending him out there injured, I don't think Walsh/D'Antoni would risk that, which means it sounds like Danilo has some toughening up to do.

The disc has receded.. he probably went to see a chiropractor. They can perform miracles, if they are good. He's got to strengthen the muscles around the disc that bulged, drink lots of water to keep that sucker filled up (discs are mostly water) and he'll be fine. He's probably sore because the area is weak. Growing as much as he has.. will do that.

[Edited by - rain on 10-22-2008 08:40 AM]

Posted by BlueSeats:

Maybe the nickname "roster" is too flattering. Maybe the name "chicken" is better suited.

Really, that's just a throw away line joke, but let us never forget Weis, who flat out told us he wasn't ready for the NBA.

If we went from "French Toast" to "Overcooked Linguini" I'll drown in a pool of tears.

Well the good thing is that Gallo is known for being a very tough and feisty guy. He never backs down from a challenge and I think he probably was hurting and played anyway, which is likely what really aggravated his disc injury.

He's had a lot of time off and if it was me i'd make him stay out some more, unless the doc's said it wasn't gonna get any better anytime soon. Amazingly enough part of healing the disc involves some exercise which will make the disc compress a bit, which in turn will send blood and oxygen to the disc to promote healing. So the guy has to put up with some pain that is healthy pain which would be part of his therapy.

Just a quick note to those saying to get surgery, it IS NOT A POSSIBILITY. A bulging disk is NOT ruptured, there is nothing they can remove. To visualize it just imagine what would happen to a disk if you were holding an extra hundred pounds. It would just "bulge" out a bit.

That said, strengthening muscles needs to be done with care. Often it's constant muscle tension that actually can assist a bulge in bulging. (The muscle tension pulling across the disk section). Strengthening the muscles is important, but if you can imagine, allowing the tension in the muscles to relax is equally as important as the area needs to be in that "relaxed" state to really promote healing. At the same time the area needs movement.

Considering his age and how hard he has played ball for the last year, I am not really worried. He needed rest and got it. Now he needs to slowly come back. I haven't seen one person on any forum mention that back pain, bulging and ruptured disks, is caused by muscle tension (mind tension) but it is. (In addition to physical causes of course). I'm not a doctor but have researched this for years as well as experienced it.

Don't worry guys. If he takes care of his bodymind he will be ok. I've seen 10mm ruptured disks heal...

EMS

[Edited by - earthmansurfer on 10-22-2008 1:27 PM]

Posted by Pharzeone:

No comment. I wish him the best.

What have you done with the real Pharzone?