http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...d/news-story/15c8c738024d881b94f741d42549ac89
He is a tough boy.. I think the 3 rib injuries and the lower back injury and throw in an ankle would stop most ... you can function and it hurts but add to that collisions and tackling...
The risk may not be in making the injuries worse, but incurring further injuries due to playing in a manner to protect the current injuries. That is changing his body mechanics and loading other areas of his body.
You won't stop this kid from playing whilst the choice is his... one tough ombré. But you do have to worry about his longevity in the game.
Not sure if the link worked.. but a cut and paste looks a bit like this .
Sports doctor Nathan Gibbs says Tyson Frizell is one of the toughest players he has ever treated
DAVID RICCIO, The Sunday Telegraph
July 23, 2017 8:00am
LEADING sports doctor Nathan Gibbs has treated them all.
In the 90s with NSW and Australian teams, it was Manly’s fearless halfback Geoff Toovey and Newcastle’s Paul ‘The Chief’ Harragon.
Gibbs has stitched, diagnosed and subsided pain for he toughest NRL and AFL players over the past 33-years. He famously declared ahead of the 1997 grand final that Andrew Johns “could die” if he played with a punctured lung.
But in a rare dose of praise for one of the NRL quiet achievers, Gibbs has declared Dragons forward Tyson Frizell one of the toughest footballers he’s ever encountered.
The hard-running Dragons forward returns to the field this afternoon against Manly in Wollongong after playing in the Blues Origin III series loss to Queensland, with not one, but three separate rib injuries.
Gibbs, who took his own Origin tally as the NSW team doctor in the decider to 16, said Frizell played with injuries which have left other players watching from the sidelines.
“Put it this way, if there was a 100m final for the toughest, he’d have a spot on the start line,’’ Gibbs said.
Despite requiring painkilling injections to his rib cage, Frizell managed to produce 30 tackles — second only to NSW hooker Nathan Peats. His 55 running metres, were in line with a badly beaten NSW pack.
Gibbs said it was Frizell’s mental toughness that sets him apart from the rest.
“I reckon our discussion ahead of Origin III lasted all of 10 seconds,’’ Gibbs said.
“He said “Yeah, I’m playing I’m good, thanks mate, see you later.
“Knowing what he was like from certainly Origin I and II, I had total confidence in his judgment to play injured.
“They (rib injuries) were absolute genuine reasons why you could pull out of a football game.
“And if any player came up to me with a rib injury or like the three of them that Tyson had and said: “I’m too sore Doc, I can’t play,’’ I would say medically he’s not fit, you’re out.
“But if the same player comes up and says; ‘I’ll be okay, I can handle the pain,’’
“You have to have pretty good mental toughness to play well, like he intended to do.
“He certainly gets a tick from me for being able to play with injury and play tough.
“He doesn’t carry on and just gets the job done. You couldn’t tell he was hurt.’’
Rather than Frizell ruling himself out, it was Dragons coach Paul McGregor who ‘rested’ Frizell from the club’s most recent clash with Canberra last weekend.
“I could see how uncomfortable he was, so my main concern for Tyson was his welfare — not what he could do on a footy field,’’ McGregor said.
“Tyson is a player who won’t let you really know the depth of an injury.
“He controls his pain very well.’’
Returning to training with the Dragons last Tuesday after five days off, McGregor said Frizell declined an offer to rest again and miss Sunday’s clash with Manly.
“He said; “No way, I want to play,’’ McGregor said.
“I gave him an out, if he needed it. But he didn’t want to know about it. That’s the Tyson we’ve known about for some time.’’
