With this type of conservative treatment the athlete did not see much improvement and continued to progressively get worse after each lifting and conditioning session. After a month of conservative treatment, the athlete began to contemplate having surgery and ending his football career. Because the athlete was not making progress, clinician one asked another clinician to take over his case.

i def find it encouraging AN ATHLETE didnt respond well to conservative tx. you cant blame anything on the patient there. hes in good health, young, and knows how to exercise properly and it still didnt work!!