Squeezing that baseball bat and swinging 5 to 10 times a game is pretty traumatic if that wrist isn't completley healed. Especially the way Pujols swings. It was healed. That's what I'm saying.

I'm not saying put Cutler in if the bone isn't healed. I'm saying the bone will be healed by the Viking game. That there will be no extra risk to him playing.

How'd that work out for Steve Jobs? Michael Jackson?

Some say that at times rich people actually get worse health care than middle class because they have access to all kinds of quackery and myriad specialists (which can cause the loss of a wholistic approach) that the middle class doesn't.

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What went wrong with Steve Jobs care? I'm not saying that great doctors can cure cancer for rich people. Michael Jackson isn't a good expample. He hired a quack doctor to feed his addiction. No reputable doctor would have done it. That's not what I'm talking about. Cutler just has a broken thumb. He needs to speed up the recovery. He doesn't need a quack to help him. I'm sure other people could get the speed up recovery for a broken thumb if they wanted it. But nobody really would need to other than a pro athlete. Like I said, most would just wait 6 weeks or longer for it to heal on its own.

Beardown is right. There are advanced techniques that doctors use that is supposed to accelerate the healing process.

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All I was doing was responding to your statement, "things can be done for people with money" by pointing out that yes they can but they are not always good. In Jobs' case he may have too many specialists, each focusing on something different. Who can say if a more wholistic approach would have helped prolong his life or not?

But yes with Cutler you are of course correct, both with treatments available and with rehab. He will have the luxury of being able to rehab full time. Mere mortals cannot do that - we have things like jobs, family and insurance limits all of which prevent that from happening.

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Here you go. Ways to speed up the healing of fractured bones. These are things that everybody can do. It's not illegal or ground breaking. Most don't do these things. Cutler will. He'll also have trainers with him every day making sure everything is done right. Be it his diet or his rehab. Got it everybody? Good. I didn't think this would be controversial.

http://orthopedics.about.com/od/castsfracturetreatments/ht/quickly.htm

So basically allow it to heal naturally and don't bother with stim.

Bullet #1 under #6: Electrical Stimulation. Although whether or not it works is questionable.

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More likely than not it won't work, and only on a complex fracture.