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Tyson Gentry (Official Thread)

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4/21/06


Gentry update:

Tressel said injured Buckeye Tyson Gentry has spoken with Adam Taliaferro, the Penn State player initially paralyzed during a game at Ohio Stadium in 2000 who later regained his ability to walk. Tressel has also spoken with Nittany Lions coach Joe Paterno.

"He said we all look for instant progress and it doesn't happen in these cases," Tressel said. "But if you dig in and the prayers keep coming and the good fortune keeps happening, you turn around and it's a year later and good things have happened."

Gentry has had two surgeries for a serious neck injury he suffered during a team scrimmage a week ago, when he initially had no feeling below his neck.
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Dispatch

4/21/06

OSU FOOTBALL NOTEBOOK

Gentry encouraged by recovery stories

Friday, April 21, 2006

Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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During his recovery from a serious spinal injury, Ohio State punter/receiver Tyson Gentry is hearing from others who are making comebacks.

Gentry remains in OSU Medical Center after two surgeries to repair what sources have said is a crushed vertebra. He was injured in a scrimmage last Friday.

OSU coach Jim Tressel yesterday said Gentry has spoken with Adam Taliaferro, the Penn State player who suffered a neck injury in Ohio Stadium in 2001 and recovered to walk.

Tressel also said he has spoken with Cornell University basketball coaches about Kahliq Gant, a player who dislocated two vertebrae during a practice Jan. 24.

After surgery to fuse the vertebrae and install plates and screws, Gant is doing extremely well right now," Tressel said.

The moral of those stories? Take heart, but take it slow.

"Tyson is getting tremendous care, and he’s got goals set and he’s had some little victories," Tressel said. "Whenever there are neck injuries, it’s slow."

Tressel said he spoke with Penn State coach Joe Paterno about his experience with Taliaferro.

"He said it’s tough, and we all like to look for instant progress and it doesn’t happen in these cases," Tressel said. "But you just have to dig in. And if you keep doing what you need to be doing and the prayers keep coming, good fortune keeps happening, you turn around and it’s a year later and good things have happened.
"You just have to hunker down and deal with it."
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not to be overly optimistic or anything but im starting to get the feeling that they really like his chances of regaining movement and full feeling back for 2 reasons.

1: they havnt disclosed his condition out of respect for tyson obviously but it seems not to be such a cut dry issue

2: they are having people with similar injuries that have came through visit him which again obviously gives him hope but im sure the staff sees it as a strong possibility in the long run that he will regain feeling.


im no doctor but they discussed the 2 surgeries and i would say it just depends on the severity of the break and nerve damage involved. it may have chipped the bone or it may have completely destroyed it who knows. either way im still behind the guy and personally i feel a little underlying optimism.
 
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