🏈 Update on Tua: Back in Tuscaloosa after successful surgery in Houston

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The latest on Tua Tagovailoa surgery plans, recovery timetable

Tua Tagovailoa injury update from the team doctor.

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A day after Tua Tagovailoa’s dislocated hip injury, there’s real optimism that the Alabama star will make a full recovery and possibly even return to football in 2020.

The current belief is that Tagovailoa has a good shot at being cleared to return to football activities in six-to-eight months and a good chance of playing football next season, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. It’s a positive outlook after initial comparisons to the injury that ended former Auburn star Bo Jackson’s career.

Tagovailoa will undergo surgery Monday in Houston, the school announced Sunday night via a statement from orthopedist Dr. Lyle Cain.

The full statement from Dr. Cain:

“For the past 24 hours our medical team has consulted with multiple orthopedic experts across the country, who specialize in hip injuries and surgeries,” the statement reads. "Based on that research, Tua is being flown to Houston tonight to be evaluated and is scheduled to have hip surgery Monday. As previously stated, we anticipate a full recovery. The main focus has been, and will remain, on Tua, his family, and making sure we are providing them the best medical care possible.”

Tagovailoa was helicoptered from Starkville to St. Vincent’s Hospital in Birmingham after having his dislocated hip set back in the socket at the stadium. He also suffered a posterior wall fracture common with hip dislocations.

 

[planomateo]

Well said!



Move It Up and Over 10 Yards…

Life has a cruel way of reminding one and all it stops for no one and simply marches on, dragging everyone with it. In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

As a freshman on the University of Alabama football team, I learned a cold hard lesson about life one day during practice.

One day a fellow teammate was injured during a play and he began to scream at the top of his lungs. In high school, if a player was injured. Practice stopped and the coaches attended to the injured player. Something you fans see during the course of a game. As was the case with Tau Tagovailoa on saturday night.

While in practice, we players experience a different set of circumstances. The trainers come out to attend the injured player and the coaches continue on with practice.

As my teammate screams continued, I heard the coach yell “Move It Up and Over 10 Yards! “ To me, that statement sounded so careless. But later I learned that the show must go on. We had a game to prepare for. And the team would play with or without him. In short, Life goes on.

Like Tau, I’ve experienced a life changing, career threatening injury. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. But we’re stay alive.

Life has to go on even when you don't want it to or when you feel unable to participate. The world doesn't stop turning for anyone. Just like an unstoppable clock that just keeps ticking and never gets tired.

Everyone must learn that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today. Sometimes you have to accept the fact that certain things will never go back to how they used to be.

When you lose what you love, remember to stay strong. You can break down and cry, but you have to get back up and start living again.
Morning will come, it has no choice. if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and KERRY ON.

Life is so unpredictable and cruel at times. It is like a road where we carefully look right and left just to make sure we don’t get hit by a vehicle. But, surprise, surprise! An airplane hits you out of nowhere.

When life throws infinite troubles and obstacles at you like there’s no tomorrow. Just simply “Move it Up and Over 10 yards because this game we call life, still has to be played!

Tau my prayers are with and my ears are always available to you. God speed young man.

 

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My uncle's brother's cousin's best friend's nephew's doctor said Tua's injury is so bad he will need a spinal tap.

 

[rick4bama]

The school has insurance policy for it's players, to cover medical expenses. Now a lost earnings policy, that I think the family would have to pay for out of their own pockets.

Thanks!

 

[planomateo]

 

[BamaFan334]

Thanks!

I'm not sure about that loss of earnings comment, because I am pretty certain I have heard of multiple schools paying for these policies on star players. I wanna say Deshaun Watson had one at Clemson.

Great news. Very happy to hear this.

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

 

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[OldPlayer]

I saw this and thought I would share:

 

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[BamaFan334]

So is he in school taking classes during this? I'm sure they more than accommodate injuries when you did it for your school, correct?

 

[Sgt. Lincoln Osiris]

 

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[planomateo]

Report: Tua Tagovailoa had no injury insurance for NFL Draft

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247sports.com

When Tua Tagovailoa went down with a season-ending hip injury, the NFL Draft questions immediately started popping up of where he’d be selected should he enter.

A team will almost certainly take a chance on the Crimson Tide quarterback at some spot in the draft should he choose to enter, but Tagovailoa will pay a price if he falls.

According to Darren Rovell of the Action Network, the insurance provided to him by the University of Alabama did not include a loss-of-value policy.

This means that he would not be able to recoup millions of dollars should he fall from the possible No. 1 overall selection to the mid-to-late first round.

Sources tell Rovell that Tagovailoa only chose to take the coverage that the university gave him. His coverage entitles him to collect if doctors rule he can never play again, as the school purchased permanent total disability insurance for the quarterback. Rovell notes that Tagovailoa taking the school’s policy did not prohibit him to taking loss-of-value insurance out of his own pocket.

“Players who are projected to go in the top-five or 10 picks should absolutely have loss-of-value insurance,” said insurance broker Keith Lerner of Total Planning in Gainesville, Fla., who has sold policies to players and schools over the past two decades and used to work with Alabama. “That’s whether the school is paying or not.”

Tagovailoa underwent successful surgery on his right hip Monday in Houston, Alabama team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lyle Cain announced in a statement.

“Tua underwent successful surgery on his right hip Monday morning in Houston,” Cain said. “The procedure went as planned, and he is resting comfortably. Tua’s prognosis is excellent, and we expect him to make a full recovery. He will return to Tuscaloosa in the next several days to begin his rehab.”

Tagovailoa suffered a dislocated hip -- and a bloody nose -- during the second quarter of Saturday’s game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., and was taken to Birmingham to undergo further tests for what coach Nick Saban called “a freak thing that you seldom see.”

 

[BamaFan334]

Sucks, but he ain't dropping far, and if he does, come back and jump Lawrence once they realize you have more talent.

 

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Report: Tua Tagovailoa had no injury insurance for NFL Draft

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247sports.com

When Tua Tagovailoa went down with a season-ending hip injury, the NFL Draft questions immediately started popping up of where he’d be selected should he enter.

A team will almost certainly take a chance on the Crimson Tide quarterback at some spot in the draft should he choose to enter, but Tagovailoa will pay a price if he falls.

According to Darren Rovell of the Action Network, the insurance provided to him by the University of Alabama did not include a loss-of-value policy.

This means that he would not be able to recoup millions of dollars should he fall from the possible No. 1 overall selection to the mid-to-late first round.

Sources tell Rovell that Tagovailoa only chose to take the coverage that the university gave him. His coverage entitles him to collect if doctors rule he can never play again, as the school purchased permanent total disability insurance for the quarterback. Rovell notes that Tagovailoa taking the school’s policy did not prohibit him to taking loss-of-value insurance out of his own pocket.

“Players who are projected to go in the top-five or 10 picks should absolutely have loss-of-value insurance,” said insurance broker Keith Lerner of Total Planning in Gainesville, Fla., who has sold policies to players and schools over the past two decades and used to work with Alabama. “That’s whether the school is paying or not.”

Tagovailoa underwent successful surgery on his right hip Monday in Houston, Alabama team orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lyle Cain announced in a statement.

“Tua underwent successful surgery on his right hip Monday morning in Houston,” Cain said. “The procedure went as planned, and he is resting comfortably. Tua’s prognosis is excellent, and we expect him to make a full recovery. He will return to Tuscaloosa in the next several days to begin his rehab.”

Tagovailoa suffered a dislocated hip -- and a bloody nose -- during the second quarter of Saturday’s game against Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss., and was taken to Birmingham to undergo further tests for what coach Nick Saban called “a freak thing that you seldom see.”

There are two people, one with close connections to the extended family and the other with the immediate family, who have both said Rovell's report "is not accurate."