Simms affected by splenectomy (1 Viewer)

[burd]

wow ... strange injury.

Proprioception (PRO-pree-o-SEP-shun (IPA pronunciation: [ˈpɹopɹiːoˌsɛpʃən]); from Latin proprius, meaning "one's own" and perception) is the sense of the relative position of neighbouring parts of the body. Unlike the six exteroceptive senses (sight, taste, smell, touch, hearing, and balance) by which we perceive the outside world, and interoceptivesense, by which we perceive the pain and the stretching of internal organs, proprioception is a third distinct sensory modality that provides feedback solely on the status of the body internally. It is the sense that indicates whether the body is moving with required effort, as well as where the various parts of the body are located in relation to each other.

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SIMMS STILL STRUGGLING FROM SPLENECTOMY AFTERMATH

Tampa Bay quarterback Chris Simms has yet to participate in training camp, due to lingering consequences of emergency surgery to remove his spleen in 2006.

Specifically, Simms is suffering from impairment to his proprioception, an internal sensory, um, thing. It is making it difficult for him to throw a football. And the throwing struggles apparently are causing problems with his shoulder.

"I'd rather just not comment about the situation right now, honestly,'' Simms told the St. Petersburg Times.

The Times reports that Simms is in danger of being placed on injured reserve or released. If he is released, the team would be required to work out an injury settlement with him. If he is placed on injured reserve, he would receive his full salary and remain the property of the team.

Though the Times suggests that Simms could be placed on the PUP list, that option goes away once a player passes his preseason physical. If he had been placed on the PUP list and released before passing a physical, the team's exposure would have been only $275,000.

The fact that Simms might not be available at all this season could increase the team's interest in Daunte Culpepper, who has scared off several suitors with his demand for a one-year deal. The Bucs are the only team that Culpepper has visited since being released by Miami 13 days ago.

 

[KnowledgeReignsSupreme]

Sounds like a career ender if permanent. This would screw up his mechanics and make him a safety risk just by being on the field.

Proprioception, also often referred to as the sixth sense, was developed by the nervous system as a means to keep track of and control the different parts of the body. An example that enables one to best understand this sensory system is one showing what happens if this sensory system is no longer there. Ian Waterman lost his sixth sense along with the ability to feel light touch when a virus killed the necessary nerves. The man still had all the nerves to control muscle movement but had no feedback from the outside world about where his limbs were except that obtained by sight. A normal person is able to move a finger, knowing where and what the finger is doing, with little effort. The normal person could just volunteer the finger to move back and forth and proprioception would make this an easy task. Without proprioception, the brain cannot feel what the finger is doing, and the process must be carried out in more conscious and calculated steps. The person must use vision to compensate for the lost feedback on the progress of the finger. Then the I-function must voluntarily and consciously tell the finger what to do while watching the feedback

So basically he'd have to be looking at his feet to drop back after receiving the snap. Obviously not good. He literally can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

 

[saintfool]

i think he's done.

 

[cobalt_27]

He literally can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

For some with his condition, they can't walk or chew gum, independently. I don't suspect that's the case for Simms here. But, it's clearly a bad prognosis if he is still debilitated to this extent. I don't care about his football career at this point...just hoping for the best that his condition improves and he can go on functioning normally real soon.

 

[redman]

Wow, bizarre.

 

[Ozymandias]

I wonder if this explains the phenomenon of so many people having their head stuck up their ###? They obviously don't know where it is.

 

[SSOG]

Sounds like a career ender if permanent. This would screw up his mechanics and make him a safety risk just by being on the field.

Proprioception, also often referred to as the sixth sense, was developed by the nervous system as a means to keep track of and control the different parts of the body. An example that enables one to best understand this sensory system is one showing what happens if this sensory system is no longer there. Ian Waterman lost his sixth sense along with the ability to feel light touch when a virus killed the necessary nerves. The man still had all the nerves to control muscle movement but had no feedback from the outside world about where his limbs were except that obtained by sight. A normal person is able to move a finger, knowing where and what the finger is doing, with little effort. The normal person could just volunteer the finger to move back and forth and proprioception would make this an easy task. Without proprioception, the brain cannot feel what the finger is doing, and the process must be carried out in more conscious and calculated steps. The person must use vision to compensate for the lost feedback on the progress of the finger. Then the I-function must voluntarily and consciously tell the finger what to do while watching the feedback

So basically he'd have to be looking at his feet to drop back after receiving the snap. Obviously not good. He literally can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

I think that's a little extreme. It's not like he's entirely without proprioception. Someone can have vision troubles without being completely blind. In fact, in many ways, elite proprioception is what separates the greatest performers in sports from guys who are just in amazing shape or guys who have freakish physical measurables. To use a vision example, it might not be that Simms is going from 20/20 vision to being legally blind- he might just be going from 20/10 vision to 20/20 vision, but that little regression back to "normal" might return Simms from an NFL-caliber player to just another Joe who happens to be in great physical condition.A lot of times when there's an injury that athletes are physically recovered from, but their performance is still suffering, it's a proprioception problem. There's nothing physically wrong with them anymore, they're just relearning what they used to know instinctively. With his proprioception lacking, his mechanics would naturally become a little bit less perfect (it's hard to put your arm in exactly the right place if you can't sense exactly where it is in relation to your body). From the article, it sounds like that's putting physical strain on his shoulder, and everything's cascading. Even if his proprioception never returns to elite levels, he probably wouldn't have any trouble being fully functional in society. At the moment, it's just a question of whether the proprioception will return or not, which is a dicey proposition since there's not much Simms can do to hasten the process other than possibly constantly putting in more reps.

 

[redman]

I guess that pretty much ensures sex with the lights on going forward.