Dr. Rusty Linton....

[dawginlaw]

Your SEC Team Physician of the year.

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STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State team physician Dr. Rusty Linton will be honored as the Southeastern Conference Team Physician of the Year at the Southern Orthopedic Association meetings, it was announced Friday. <br class=""> <br class=""> Dr. Linton, on staff at Columbus Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Clinic, P.C., has served as Mississippi State's team orthopedic surgeon since 1990. He has worked with Bulldog athletics dating back to 1983, while completing his medical school work and during his residency. <br class=""> <br class=""> A 1980 graduate of Mississippi State, Dr. Linton earned his M.D. from the University of Mississippi Medical Center in 1984. From 1984 through 1989, he served his orthopedic residency at the University of Tennessee Medical School/Campbell's Clinic. He then completed one year of sports medicine fellowship at the University of Florida prior to his arrival in Starkville. <br class=""> <br class=""> Dr. Linton worked with the 1988 United States Olympic baseball team which claimed the gold medal in Seoul, South Korea, and continues to assist the Chicago Bears and the Pittsburgh Steelers at the annual NFL Scouting Combine. <br class=""> <br class=""> Given annually to recognize a team physician that has contributed greatly to both their school's teams and to the SEC sports medicine community, the SEC Team Physician of the Year is sponsored by dj Orthopedics and the Southern Orthopedic Association and will be presented to Dr. Linton at the SEC Basketball Tournament in Tampa.</p>

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[The Big Slick]

 

[Spotdawg]

than Dr. James Andrews (who is team physician for Auburn and Alabama?) Are they 17ing kidding?

That's like comparing Hening to Tebow.

 

[TR.sixpack]

you can't give to the same guy every year. Also I think y'all are a little unfair to Dr. Linton. Hell, the Cleveland Browns have had problems with staph infections all year long and Tom Brady's surgery didn't go well. Y'all act like performing surgery on human beings is cut and dry - no pun intended.

 

[LR1400]

Please enlighten me, what has he ever done to be called the butcher?

 

[Todd4State]

I'll be honest here, I don't know who he has operated on or hasn't. But I do know that MSU athletes have a bad history of coming back from very mild injuries. We lead the nation is career ending hamstring pulls. To be honest, it's probably as much on the training staff and the PT's that work for Columbus Orthopaedic as much as it is Linton. Linton gets the brunt because he's the Doctor, the face of the program, and the guy who makes the money. Kind of like blaming the CEO of a restaurant because the service was bad. It wasn't his fault directly, but eventually it goes back to him.

That said, how many times have we heard of a football player "missing rehab?" Why is the training staff not on top of that? I'm in the rehab field, and I can tell you that if a patient misses rehab or doesn't do what they are supposed to, it really affects the outcome. Now, it's one thing if it's a nurse who doesn't really care if they can't quite bend their elbow all the way straight, but it's a very different thing when it's an athlete who is being given a scholarship to play football, which is the biggest revenue producer for the school. I can guarantee you that players at Alabama don't "miss rehab", or anywhere else for that matter. Plus, the players have no excuses because they have their own personal trainer to make them do what they are supposed to.

The other thing here is the fact that it's got to be hard to attract good physical therapists to a town like Columbus. Nothing against the town, but we would be a LOT better off sending our players to UMC in Jackson. I know that they are affiliated with the University of Mississippi, but I think it's ridiculous to not use them if they do a better job than Columbus does. I can't recall the last time an Ole Miss player had a career ending injury, which says something about UMC, and maybe their luck, I guess. UMC is a great hospital, and one of the top 100 in the country. I think they would be happy to treat MSU athletes, and certainly don't care about the rivalry that MSU and Ole Miss have.

 

[patdog]

When I had my shoulder surgery 10 years ago, my strategy for rehab was if the PT told me to do 3-4 sets of 10-12 reps 3-4 times per week, I was doing 4 sets of 12 reps 4 times per week. I maxed out on everything they told me to do, but never did more. 10 years later, I've never even the hint of a problem. I had a good surgeon, but rehab is absolutely critical.

That said, I do think the only reason Linton got this award was because he's been doing this for 18 years and has never won it before.

 

[prairiedawg]

I'll be honest here, I don't know who he has operated on or hasn't.

And

The other thing here is the fact that it's got to be hard to attract good physical therapists to a town like Columbus.

Who are these people in Columbus who aren't so good?

 

[615dawg]

but he did a fine job with my grandmother's knee replacement surgery.

 

[Todd4State]

Just that larger cities are going to attract better therapists. It is a fact. That doesn't mean that the ones in Columbus are bad at all. What it means is that when you have a lot of therapists coming in from a lot of different places, we tend to bounce ideas off of each other and you learn from each other. I can tell you first hand that they don't teach us everything in OT/PT school. I suspect that most of the therapists in Columbus are people that are from the town that came back after school.

The other thing that makes clinics better is competition. For example, in Jackson, you have UMC, St. Dominic's, Baptist, River Oaks, CMMC, and then every Genesis Clinic on every other street corner competing against each other. For you to stay in business, you've got to produce, and in my field that's people getting better. If they aren't satisfied, they'll go somewhere else.

Besides, my whole point was if we could treat our players better, why not do it? Not so much that Columbus is bad.

 

[graddawg]

Please enlighten me, what has he ever done to be called the butcher?

Ask Jon Mungle.

 

[The Big Slick]

but he did a fine job with my grandmother's knee replacement surgery.

Think she could play receiver this fall?

 

[vicious]

97! Mark my word Elliot won't be back. First thing Mullen should do is get this guy out.