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| 1st December, 2005 - 8:27 pm |  AP - The doctor who performed season-ending surgery for a sports hernia on Donovan McNabb said the Eagles quarterback should "take it easy" before returning to the field.
Dr. William Meyers, who operated Monday at Hahnemann University Hospital, said McNabb had multiple tears and needed surgery immediately. Normal recovery time is eight to 10 weeks, though McNabb won't play again this year after he was placed on injured reserve.
McNabb had played through several injuries and hoped to delay surgery for the sports hernia until after the season.
"It was at the point of the season where he was having more damage there and I said, 'That's enough. You've got to have surgery,"' Meyers said Thursday.
Citing patient confidentially, Meyers did not get into too many specifics of McNabb's injury, the surgery or recovery. He did not think McNabb would have returned this season even if he had the surgery earlier in the year.
"He had a tough injury," Meyers said. "For him to get right back would have been tricky." [READ] |
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