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00:00 Welcome to the Carriker Chronicles, the people show.
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00:18 Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, every Thursday I do a prediction show and every week one
00:23 of my kids joins me.
00:25 Today my six-year-old daughter Jordan was supposed to join me, but alas, she is sick,
00:30 not feeling well.
00:32 All the other kids are at school right now, so this is our dog Rocky making his Carriker
00:37 Chronicles debut.
00:40 He's a mini-ossie, highly energetic, highly intelligent, and great with the kids.
00:45 He also has a younger sister named Sky, who we may never bring on this show.
00:49 That dog will not sit down, but Rocky is here.
00:52 Yeah, he's the older brother and he does really, really good.
00:55 And here's a quote that I heard a long time ago from one of my friends, and it's a good
01:00 quote.
01:01 Just random, but here we go.
01:02 "I always strive to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am."
01:06 All right, ladies and gentlemen, do me a favor, smash that like button.
01:10 Jordan's curious how many people can hit that like button to wish her well.
01:15 And full disclosure, my daughter Addison broke the growth plate in her left ankle, so she's
01:21 on crutches and in a cast.
01:23 My daughter Trinity broke her thumb in softball, so she's got a cast.
01:28 My son Jacob just minorly tweaked his ankle, okay?
01:31 So he's just wearing a little bit of a brace just when he plays sports, one of those things
01:35 that you strap on and tie up.
01:36 No big deal.
01:37 Ladies and gentlemen, hit that like button so all the Carriker kids can get better.
01:41 I swear we're good parents.
01:42 And actually, that feeds in perfectly.
01:44 At the end of this show, I'm doing something I've never done before.
01:47 I'm bringing on a guest that I've never brought on before, a type of guest I've never brought
01:51 on before.
01:52 I don't think I've seen this type of guest anywhere else.
01:54 It's a renowned orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Strasburger.
01:59 And him and I are going to talk about injury prevention, some of the things that current
02:02 Huskers are going through, guys who've had season-ending injuries, our quarterbacks,
02:06 Teddy Prochaska, Luke Reimer.
02:08 Stay tuned at the end of the show for that.
02:11 But of course, it's time right here, right now.
02:13 Rocky, you saying hi?
02:16 Yeah?
02:17 Well, I can see I'm highly entertaining.
02:20 But you can also see why I brought him and not Sky.
02:22 Anyways, I digress.
02:23 It's time for the four keys this week.
02:25 Four keys to keeping the game competitive and maybe pulling off a shocking upset.
02:31 The Huskers over the University of Michigan this weekend.
02:33 Possibly also my prediction and Rocky's, aka Jacob's prediction at the end of the show.
02:38 Now real quick, a couple of quick stats.
02:40 Strength of schedule.
02:41 Neither one of these teams have played Murderer's Row schedule just yet.
02:44 Nebraska has the 102nd ranked strength of schedule so far this year.
02:48 Michigan's strength of schedule is 123rd in the country so far.
02:52 Now, when you look at some of these other stats.
02:55 Alright, Michigan's scoring defense, number one in the country, giving up 5.8 points per
02:58 game.
02:59 Nebraska, 33rd in the country at 18.5 points per game.
03:04 Michigan's rushing offense.
03:06 Their offense isn't blowing it out the water, ladies and gentlemen.
03:08 Their 50th in the country without a ton of tough competition at 168 yards per game.
03:13 Michigan-Nebraska, number six in the country, 235 yards rushing so far this year.
03:19 Michigan's rushing defense, pretty good, giving up 80 yards a game.
03:21 That's 13th in the country.
03:24 Nebraska's rushing defense, alright, first in the country at 46 yards per game.
03:31 Also, scoring offenses.
03:33 Again, this could be a low scoring interesting slugfest.
03:36 Nebraska's averaging 21.8 points per game.
03:38 Michigan 101st in the country.
03:40 Michigan averaging 31.8 points per game.
03:43 That's 53rd in the country.
03:44 Now here are my keys to the game.
03:47 First of all, make it a slugfest.
03:49 Make it ugly.
03:50 I said this earlier and I'll say it again.
03:52 Michigan likes, this is what Michigan likes to do too, but here's the deal.
03:56 The more big plays they are, the more it's going to benefit Michigan.
03:58 It's going to benefit the Wolverines more than us.
04:01 Make it low scoring, ugly, body blows type of game.
04:04 Let's test a team, easy for me to say, in front of a raucous crowd that hasn't been
04:08 tested yet this year.
04:10 Number two, find a way to stretch their defense somehow, whether it's trick plays, the old
04:15 Osborne double pass play from the Minnesota game, or throwing the ball down the field.
04:20 Here's something we've got to improve on as a team.
04:22 Whoever the quarterback is, we've got to see more balls down the field.
04:27 Just a way to keep defenses on.
04:28 Simms, when he was quarterback, passes 9 yards down the field or less.
04:34 He was 13-13 for 92 yards, 10+ yards down the field, 7 of 20, 128 yards, a touchdown,
04:41 4 INTs.
04:42 Harburg, 9 yards or less on his pass attempts, 13-17, 109 yards, 2 touchdowns, 10+ yards
04:48 down the field on pass attempts, 3 of 10 for 62 yards.
04:51 We've got to find a way to stretch this defense.
04:56 Don't abandon who we are.
04:57 I'm not saying that.
04:58 We've got to stay true to who we are.
05:00 But I would have said this even if we weren't playing Michigan.
05:02 This has to be part of our game plan.
05:06 Number three, get it to the second half and the fourth quarter.
05:09 That's where we're the strongest.
05:11 We're not the best first half team in the world.
05:12 Michigan has not been tested in the second half.
05:16 So let's get it to the second half, keep it interesting, keep it competitive, keep it
05:19 to the fourth quarter where we are the strongest and they have not been tested.
05:23 Who knows what will happen?
05:24 You never know, ladies and gentlemen.
05:27 Number four, defense.
05:28 Force some turnovers.
05:29 We've got to steal possessions away from Michigan.
05:31 We've got to give extra possessions to our offense.
05:33 We've got to find ways to give our offense a short field and maybe even score on defense.
05:39 That would help out a lot.
05:40 All right, the spread right now, ladies and gentlemen, Michigan was originally favored
05:44 by 18.5.
05:45 It's gone down to 17.
05:47 And I think that's because people realize it's going to be a little bit more of a defensive
05:50 battle, so to speak.
05:52 The over-under is 39, which is insanely low.
05:54 Again, I'm always going to take the under with Nebraska and Michigan.
05:58 And then you put them in the same game.
06:00 My prediction is Michigan 24.
06:03 As much as I hope this score is wrong, Nebraska 10.
06:07 Rocky, yeah, Rocky, he can't stand to watch.
06:11 Okay, Rocky, aka Jacob, says it's going to be an even lower score in Michigan 21, Nebraska
06:17 7.
06:18 Again, are you having fun?
06:21 Yeah?
06:22 Yeah, he looks enthused and thrilled.
06:25 All right, stay tuned, right after this, my interview with Dr. Strasburg, a renowned orthopedic
06:31 surgeon.
06:32 I know he's worked with the Huskers in the past.
06:33 He's a former Husker himself, but I'll give you that intro as soon as we come back right
06:37 after this.
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06:59 All right, don't go anywhere, because we'll be right back, right, Rocky?
07:03 Snap.
07:04 And we're back, ladies and gentlemen.
07:06 Now, this is something I've never done before on the show.
07:09 I don't know that I've seen other folks do on other outlets or Husker news outlets.
07:15 Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I missed it, but maybe this is hopefully kind of sort of unique to
07:18 this show and what we got here.
07:20 Now, I'm joined today by Syracuse Area Health's own and Strasburger Orthopedics' very own,
07:26 Dr. Strasburger.
07:27 Now, let me give you a little bit of background and info on him before I officially bring
07:31 him on.
07:32 Now, he's a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine and has been
07:36 practicing medicine for over 20 years.
07:40 He's from Holdreds, Nebraska.
07:42 He actually played for the Huskers, okay?
07:44 Third team All-American, two-time All-Big-Eight selection, an academic All-American, and was
07:50 drafted by the Dallas Cowboys in 1985.
07:53 Mr. Dr. Strasburger, how you doing, my friend?
07:56 Doing great, Adam.
07:57 I appreciate the opportunity to be with you today.
08:00 Yeah, thank you for taking the time.
08:02 And you know, football is, as we all know, it's a game of injuries.
08:06 The injury rate is literally 100% if you play the game, you know, more than a couple of
08:11 years, especially at a high level.
08:13 That's because obviously you've got some things that have happened so far this year.
08:17 So I want to dive into a couple of questions and a couple of, you know, just your thoughts
08:21 on injury prevention, how guys can come back from things, things of that nature.
08:26 So Jeff Sims has had an ankle sprain, okay, for a while now.
08:30 Now, I've seen guys come back from an ankle sprain of 48 hours, and I've seen them take
08:34 six weeks at some points.
08:36 When it comes to ankle sprains, why are they so unique and why is the recovery timetable
08:41 so varied?
08:42 Well, the ankle is a complex joint, Adam, and the injury pattern is directly associated
08:51 with the mechanism of the injury.
08:52 Does the ankle just turn?
08:54 Does the ankle turn and twist?
08:57 And depending on the mechanism of the injury will depend on what structures are involved.
09:02 And you're exactly right.
09:04 Some mild inversion ankle sprains where the ankle simply rolls out can just damage one
09:11 or two ligaments on the side of the ankle.
09:13 And you can see people from this minor injury recover in hours or a couple days.
09:19 This ankle injury can be more severe where you get more than stretching.
09:23 You actually get tearing of the fibers or you can see repetitive injuries where the
09:27 ligament can get just stretched out and, you know, therefore the timeframe might be weeks.
09:33 But you can also see injuries in the ankle that involve rotation as well as, you know,
09:40 inversion or eversion.
09:41 And these are the more serious high ankle sprains that you hear about and, you know,
09:47 some injuries that have plagued us recently and those injuries can take a little bit longer
09:52 to respond and recover.
09:54 Some of these injuries are actually being treated now with a small operation shortly
09:59 after the injury to help the recovery.
10:03 And that's kind of dependent on the severity of the injury the athlete has acquired.
10:09 Now Henrik Harberg, he's back at practice 100% now.
10:12 He's fully ready to go for Saturday if that's the direction the coaches go.
10:17 He did not finish the game last Saturday versus La Tec after the weather delay.
10:21 He had tightness is all we were told.
10:24 Rule did say he probably would have finished the game had there not been the delay.
10:28 Now when it comes to tightness, how do you prevent just tightness in general?
10:32 I played with a guy named Brannon Rigoni.
10:34 Now this dude was a ball of muscle and every day after practice he not only busted his
10:39 butt in the weight room.
10:40 And I asked him one day, I said, "Dude, you stretch every day for like hours on end seemingly."
10:45 And he goes, "Adam, it's actually 45 minutes every day after practice that I stretch."
10:50 Now I don't know.
10:52 The science on stretching has varied, but what are your thoughts on preventing tightness,
10:57 stretching before or after exercise, things of that nature?
11:00 Well, Brandon is a unique individual and unfortunately there are very few Brandons out there that
11:07 have the dedication that he has.
11:09 But stretching pre and post practice is an important part of any athlete's regimen.
11:16 The tightness that you're referring to usually comes from a minor injury and it involved
11:22 a non-throwing shoulder and it was probably landed on and more than likely had a little
11:29 injury involving his AC joint.
11:30 We often call that shoulder separation.
11:33 Doing that with rest or just sitting around during a weather delay may create some tightness
11:40 over 30, 45 minutes.
11:42 So it was probably very wise to sit him for the rest of the night.
11:47 But it sounds like he's recovering well.
11:49 But you can have other injuries to the shoulder.
11:51 You can have, the shoulder is a neat joint.
11:53 I often describe it as a golf ball sitting on a golf tee.
11:56 You have a big ball sitting on a small tee.
11:59 So the ball very easily can fall off the tee and what prevents that from happening are
12:03 the ligaments in the rotator cuff, muscles around the shoulder.
12:07 When the energy involved exceeds the ability of the shoulder to keep the ball in place,
12:12 the ball can slip out of the socket.
12:14 It can either partially slip out, we call that a subluxation, or completely pop out,
12:18 we call that a dislocation.
12:20 It doesn't appear, given the mechanism of injury that we saw in the game last week,
12:24 that that was probably what happened.
12:26 It looks like probably just a little minor AC joint injury and it's nice to hear that
12:30 he's recovering well.
12:32 Now the running back room's kind of been hit a little bit hard, as everyone is aware.
12:36 Gabe Irvin, Ramir Johnson.
12:38 Okay, so Gabe dislocated his shoulder, Ramir dislocated his hip.
12:42 Both will require season-ending surgery, as we all know.
12:46 Now the timetable for recovery from injuries like this, obviously it's months, which is
12:51 why they're going to be out for the rest of the season.
12:54 But with these types of injuries, do you typically, like, can we hope to see them back in winter
12:59 conditioning, spring ball, summer conditioning?
13:02 Obviously the sooner they get back, the better for next year.
13:04 Is it a longer recovery type situation, like maybe fall camp next year with those two types
13:09 of injuries?
13:10 What's been your experience with that?
13:12 Well, with a shoulder, Adam, very often we can get in there and essentially repair the
13:19 structures that were torn.
13:21 Just repair them anatomically, just like Mother Nature meant them to be, and they will heal,
13:25 very predictably, heal in about three and a half to four and a half months, and with
13:29 a recovery can be back in, you know, limited contact in four and a half to six months.
13:36 The hips are a little bit different.
13:38 With any injury, whether it's to a shoulder, to a knee, to a hip, some of the problems
13:43 exist with the other structures involved, specifically the cartilages in the knee or
13:49 the meniscus in the knee or the joint surfaces in the shoulder or the hip.
13:55 When the hip pops out of place, you have this pristine, smooth, white ball that can hit
14:00 the side of the socket, and oftentimes that creates secondary injuries that are a little
14:07 bit more difficult to treat.
14:09 So again, it's, you know, individually it can be different.
14:13 With a hip dislocation where we just repair the ligaments and the labrum, they can be
14:19 back doing some type of training in three and a half to four months, and usually back
14:23 being competitive in four and a half to six months.
14:27 Now we need some help in certain areas on the team.
14:30 I would say the left side of the O-line.
14:32 We're hoping for some improved play.
14:34 Turner Corcoran's a start and left tackle.
14:36 Teddy Prochaska's a guy the Husker fans have been eyeing for a long time to do big
14:40 things potentially.
14:42 A lot of talent there.
14:43 He has started briefly in the past.
14:45 The past couple of years he's had season-ending surgeries.
14:48 Unfortunately, he's working his way back now.
14:50 He even got in the game a couple of weeks ago as a tight end versus Northern Illinois.
14:54 So he's a guy that could potentially get in this O-line rotation, starting role, whatever
14:59 the case may be as soon as he's healthy.
15:01 But what is your advice to Teddy as he works his way back from this injury, knowing his
15:06 past and knowing his potential in the future?
15:08 Well, a lot of times injuries, Adam, are just simply bad luck.
15:14 Having your foot or your knee or your shoulder in the wrong position at the wrong time, and
15:20 it may not be anything Teddy's doing.
15:23 It just may be wrong place, wrong time scenarios.
15:26 So Teddy's done a great job with his previous injury and with this injury and recovering
15:31 and getting back.
15:33 Some athletes have to prepare more aggressively than others to prepare themselves to participate
15:41 in these very difficult sports.
15:46 But he seems to be one of those, but he's certainly putting forward the effort.
15:50 He hasn't really backed down from any of the injuries he's experienced and appears to be
15:55 recovering very nicely.
15:56 Yeah, I hope to see him on the field sooner rather than later.
16:01 I do too.
16:02 He has just amazing potential.
16:04 Yeah, that's for sure.
16:05 Now Luke Reimer got banged up last week, didn't finish the game.
16:09 I think his day ended in the first half on Saturday versus La Tech.
16:14 He's questionable versus Michigan this weekend.
16:17 So obviously Reimer's questionable, Sims is recovering.
16:21 We've talked about Teddy, we've talked about other guys who are going to be coming back
16:24 from injuries.
16:25 As I mentioned, football is a game of injuries, 100% injury rate.
16:29 In your opinion, what is some of the biggest/most effective ways to do prehab or injury preventative
16:36 type methods to hopefully prevent as many injuries as possible?
16:42 Well, prevention obviously is the key and preseason sport specific training is imperative.
16:53 We see this in jumping sports where we actually teach athletes how to jump and land.
17:00 Footwork in football is paramount important.
17:04 Teaching kids how to be in the proper position, how to take on a block, how to deliver a block,
17:09 how to tackle, how to be tackled, how to land, how to slide if you're a quarterback, to avoid
17:14 contact.
17:15 There's just a lot of things that are involved and I really think with the help of the medical
17:21 training staff at these universities, we've done a much better job over the past couple
17:26 decades of preventing injuries.
17:30 But as you say, the injury rate in competitive football is near 100% and it's just going
17:36 to happen.
17:37 Bad luck is bad luck.
17:39 Alright, last question I got for you.
17:41 How big of a role does strength and conditioning play in the prehab process?
17:46 Obviously it's performance enhancement is what you're trying to do, bigger, faster, stronger,
17:51 but how big of a role does that play in the injury prevention role of things as well?
17:55 Well, in controlling your position and controlling your motion, controlling how your hips, knees,
18:02 ankles, your shoulders function, the stronger and more developed you are, the less exposure
18:11 to injury you're going to have.
18:13 So it's paramount importance.
18:17 These sports specific activities and exercises and weight training activities are real important
18:24 in getting the athlete, especially the football player, ready for practice and games.
18:31 It's so hard to replicate practice and games in training, but we've become much better
18:36 at doing that and I think as we do that, we get athletes who are less exposed to injuries
18:42 in the practices and games.
18:44 So as you pointed out, it's very, very important.
18:47 Alright Husker fans, here's something you don't know, and I hope I'm okay sharing this
18:52 Dr. Strasburger, but he actually had oral surgery yesterday and he toughed it out, joined
18:57 me today anyways, did a phenomenal job.
19:00 So thank you for joining me, Doc.
19:02 Hey, the stars play here, that's right.
19:05 Alright ladies and gentlemen, hit me up in the comments below.
19:09 If you've got any questions for Dr. Strasburger, let me know below.
19:13 Give me your score prediction for the Nebraska-Michigan game this Saturday, and also your biggest
19:18 key to the Huskers possibly pulling off a monumental upset of the Wolverines, or at
19:24 least keeping the game competitive.
19:25 Let me know in the comments below.
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