Clay Matthews Offseason Plan

[pbmax]

get a tan going. Here is the post-op thumb:

http://msn.foxsports.com/content/dam/fsdigital/fscom/nfl/images/2014/01/28/012814-NFL-PACKERS-CLAY-MATTHEWS-BROKEN-THUMB-SCAR-DC-PI-CQ.vadapt.955.medium.51.jpg


http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/clay-matthews-has-pins-removed-from-broken-thumb-012814

[Patler]

Did anyone ever explain how he re-broke his thumb while wearing a cast?

[pbmax]

Did anyone ever explain how he re-broke his thumb while wearing a cast?

Landing with the full weight of his upper body on that hand probably broke or collapsed the cast.

I did this as a 10 year old, though it took me a few weeks and I had to get it wet at the neighborhood pond. Was in thoroughly terrible shape when I went to get it removed and the Doctor suitably impressed at the destruction I had wrought.

[Joemailman]

Did anyone ever explain how he re-broke his thumb while wearing a cast?

I thought the cast was off (or at least modified) when he broke it the second time.


Matthews wore a club cast when he returned on Nov. 10 against the Philadelphia Eagles but a week later he began playing with a much smaller cast, which he was wearing against the Steelers.

[red]

yep, it was a modified cast

it was like the club, it went halfway up his arm, but for some reason the whole thumb, or most of it was left exposed, along with all the other fingers

so really, at that point the cast was worthless

[Patler]

I knew the club was gone, but I read they would use a rigid splint of sorts that immobilized the thumb while leaving the fingers exposed
He must have sissy!

[SkinBasket]

He must have sissy!

That sounds like a sex act.

[Patler]

:oops: Sissy hands. I meant to type "He must have sissy hands." :oops: :oops: :smile:

[Joemailman]

yep, it was a modified cast

it was like the club, it went halfway up his arm, but for some reason the whole thumb, or most of it was left exposed, along with all the other fingers

so really, at that point the cast was worthless

Yeah, it looks like they were protecting the wrist more than the thumb. In a way I can understand that. I have an arthritic thumb, and when it hurts, I feel the pain down into the wrist. Still, I think that thumb was too exposed.

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1558434.1388018966!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/clayweb26s-2-web.jpg