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Serious NFL Injury - Kevin Everett

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I was at the game and he had to have been down for at least 15 minutes...really scary stuff because the crowd went from cheering because he crushed the guy to dead silence because he didn't move at all...here is to a speedy and optomistic recovery

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Bills' Everett could transfer to Houston area by weekend

Wednesday, September 19, 2007 3:25 AM
By John Wawrow


ASSOCIATED PRESS

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Kevin Everett could be transferred to a Houston hospital by this weekend to begin the next phase of the Buffalo Bills tight end's rehabilitation, a person close to the family told the Associated Press yesterday.

"That's the plan that probably by the end of the week, if progress remains the same, he'll be transferred back to Houston," said the person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of Everett's status.

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I found it interesting how they treated Everett with some chilled saline around his spinal cord. Makese a lot of sense.
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They talked about him (being a 'Cane) during the Miami-aTm game last night. They mentioned the Miami Project, and said that many Pro and college teams have contacted "Miami" about that treatment. I believe they meant the teams contacted The Miami Project, which was founded in 1985 after Nick Bouniconti's son was paralyzed while playing for The Citadel.

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They mention the body temperature thing under 'neuroprotection'.
 
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Everett making strides

Kevin Everett made further significant strides this past weekend in his recovery from a life-threatening spinal cord injury.
The Buffalo Bills tight end lifted his right arm for the first time Sunday, a day after sitting up in bed for four hours. Everett couldn't sit up for longer than 90 minutes before he was moved to Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston from a Buffalo, N.Y., hospital on Friday.

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Injured Bills tight end making 'solid, noticeable progress'

Injured Buffalo Bills player Kevin Everett has been able to walk to some extent as part of his rehabilitation after suffering a severe spinal cord injury during the team's season opener.
Everett's agent, Eric Armstead, told ESPN that the player is now moving his legs and is able to stand upright with the help of a specialized walker. The walker stabilizes his upper body so that Everett doesn't have to support all of his body weight on his legs. With the use of that walker, Everett is able to move his legs on his own and technically take steps.
"He's making very solid and noticeable progress," Armstead told The Associated Press. "He's very excited."
Everett is currently doing two physical therapy sessions of one to two hours per day. When Everett was transferred to Houston's Memorial Hermann Hospital rehabilitation center about three weeks ago, he could not move his hands or lift his arms. His agent says that Everett can now lift his arms to about chest high. He can also open and close his hands slowly, which he was not able to do before.

Entire article: ESPN - Bills' Everett able to walk with specialized walker - NFL
 
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Awesome news.

I remember how dire it was right when it happened. There was talk that he would be fortunate to survive the injury, and that being in a wheelchair would almost be a victory (from the original prognosis at the beginning).

Couldn't be happier for him and his family.
 
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He was very "fortunate" to have suffered this injury at an NFL game. As mentioned above, they immediately cooled down his body temperature which prohibited swelling and blood getting into his cord. Those two things usually do the most damage when a person suffers a cervical injury. It is too bad that this knowledge was not available to the OSU medical staff when Tyson Gentry suffered his injury.

The Miami Project is doing the right thing in trying to find out what happens to the cord upon trauma rather than trying to do the impossible which Christopher Reeve's was doing. His heart was in the right place unfortunately he was getting bad advice.
 
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