{"id":4846,"date":"2015-09-06T15:55:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/?p=4846"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T19:58:33","slug":"julius-thomas-opts-for-surgery-hopes-for-week-4-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/julius-thomas-opts-for-surgery-hopes-for-week-4-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Thomas Opts for Surgery- Hopes for Week 4 Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tight end Julius Thomas of the Jacksonville Jaguars opts for surgery after receiving a second opinion on his <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/football-injuries\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">football hand injury<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The procedure will keep him out of play for a week longer than if he had opted against surgery. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dave Caldwell (general manager) said that it was likely Thomas wouldn\u2019t recover enough to play in the first three regular-season games anyway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We thought that it&#8217;d be touch-and-go for the opener, hopeful that he&#8217;d be ready, but if not it would be a worst-case scenario around Week 3,&#8221; Caldwell said. He further indicated a \u201cworst-case scenario\u201d could be Week 4, as the surgery would require traveling to Indianapolis to be done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As for what the surgery entails, according to a league source close to Thomas&#8217; situation: Thomas suffered a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/patient-education\/metacarpal-phalangeal-joint-dislocation\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fractured bone<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0just behind the base of his finger. He also stretched ligaments that help keep his finger seated in the joint. The ligaments will naturally tighten over time, but the most recent examination showed that Thomas&#8217; ligaments hadn&#8217;t tightened as much as hoped to this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most people would be able to go about their jobs with ligaments that aren&#8217;t totally healed, but in Thomas\u2019 case, it would put him at risk for further injury if he played while his finger joint isn\u2019t completely stable.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tight end Julius Thomas of the Jacksonville Jaguars opts for surgery after receiving a second opinion on his football hand injury. The procedure will keep him out of play for a week longer than if he had opted against surgery. \u00a0 Dave Caldwell (general manager) said that it was likely Thomas wouldn\u2019t recover enough to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handsurgeonsnyc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}