4. "he'll get it together" In response to Reply # 0
i just don't think he can stay full Knoblach, not at this age. it may take a couple years and, ultimately, necessitate a change of scenary. that would be really bad for the sixers, but the good of the sixers should be a distant second in everyone's mind. i just want the kid to be ok.
---- bshelly
"You (Fisher) could get fired, Les Snead could get fired, Kevin Demoff could get fired, but I will always be Eric Dickerson.” (c) The God
6. "Based on the public footage, the Sixers staff gets it " In response to Reply # 4
They are letting him shoot in ranges where he is currently comfortable (aka where that motion is non-threatening for him) and then when it comes to longer distances, they are just taking him through the jump-shot motor pattern and having him focus on slowly and gently going through that range of motion.
This is not an easy process but it can be worked through with patience and support. The microscope doesn't help anything.
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"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
5. "Misses the mark, Brett Brown gave the biggest clue" In response to Reply # 0
As to what the medical staff believes is happening.
He said in a private production meeting - "what markelle is dealing with is psychosomatic"....and that's perfectly ok since all pain and motor patterning/learning is inherently psychosomatic.
What's key to understand in breaking neuro-cognitive pain cycles and motor re-learning is that it's a very non-linear process...especially during the associative (beginner) stages of motor learning.
--------------------------------- <--The drought is over
"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
10. "do you mean pain as in the symptom of his pathology?" In response to Reply # 5
soreness from developing underused muscles is one thing, and thats expected to some degree
but that article reads like he has been shooting while he should have been doing PT if he really has scapular dyskinesia. and without the team's knowledge no less.
11. "I mean pain as in a conditioned pain response " In response to Reply # 10
It’s pretty obvious to me that he changed his shot bc he was having pain in the first place (due to the dyskinesia), kept trying to shoot through it (reinforcing the negative pain feedback loop) and now even though that dyskinesia and the underlying muscle imbalance is fixed, his brain still interprets that overhead jumper motion as dangerous and thus sends a pain response - it’s chronic pain science 101.
He has to work through it via graded exposure - starting with non-threatening spots on the court (in the paint - as Colangelo said) and then incrementally progressing. That’s why you see the Sixers staff working on his jumper motor pattern in slow-motion, they’re introducing graded, non-threatening motion so his brain can get off red alert.
--------------------------------- <--The drought is over
"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
19. "Of course not and the reasons for that are pretty straight-forward " In response to Reply # 13
1 - no one will ever take the blame for this, especially in a high profile case
2 - there’s still a huge stigma associated with neuro-cognitive pain (“the pain is all in your head”...well yeh, all pain is created by the brain). Just look what happened when Mark Jones used the word “psychosomatic” to characterize Brett Brown’s private production meeting comments - Fultz went full emo on Twitter, Brett Brown basically had to retract everything, ESPN apologized, and Mark Jones apologized.
All off one word - the one word that has came closest to actually describing the real issue. Fultz isn’t some “mystery” - this is a common presentation in patients suffering from chronic pain, high stress situations
--------------------------------- <--The drought is over
"have fun reveling in your pettiness tho" (C) Dula summing up 98% of OKS
"I didnt finish a damn thing...matter of fact I jerked off after she left." -Kobe speaking to investigators
17. "he may not be "injured" now...but " In response to Reply # 0 Tue Feb-13-18 10:06 PM by Warren Coolidge
his current shooting form is definitely a reaction to an injury to that shoulder. Combination of an actual lack of strength in that shoulder...and the mental aspect of not having the confidence in your strength get the ball over your head..
that's what that hitch is....
it's shame man..
kids a real player...
but he's not strong enough yet to have the right shooting form...
it almost looks like there's been some nerve damage or degeneration...
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