TJ Watt at hospital

Get well soon TJ
STAY AWAY FROM THE POOL AREA!!!

 

https://steelersdepot.com/2025/12/t...lung-after-dry-needling-session-says-brother/

Never had dry needling treatments, but I would never have thought there would be enough penetration to puncture a lung. Crazy.

 

That Doctor must be a ravens fan.

 

Is dry needling like acupuncture?

 

‘DRY NEEDLING’ is like when your wife asks you to take the trash out 5 times in 10 minutes…..

 

What the heck is wrong with the steelers medical staff??? They can't give Bettis a shot. They almost KILL Greg Lloyd. And now what they do to TJ Watt.

 

Kramer used a Junior Mint.

 

they don't like firing anyone under contract and keep promoting from within. I guess that goes for the medical staff as well.

 

yes.

I guess there are different versions of dry needling but what I am used to is jamming needles into a muscle to speed up recovery. The needles go pretty deep

 

Right!!! You'd think the staff could just tell them they're not playing.

Hey wait.

Hey Mike, what ails you?
You should get that looked at.

 

We already know he's going to miss Monday night. If the Steelers pull off the victory/Ravens loss this week, the Lions game, becomes pretty much irrelevant for standings and tiebreakers. This may give him two weeks to heal, if needed. Steelers win/Ravens lose this week, and a win versus the Browns in 2 weeks, clinches the division for the Steelers on week 17...even with a Lions loss.

 

And the Ravens might not win another game. I think the Bengals beat them Sunday and then after that they have the Packers and Patriots back to back before finishing up with us in Pittsburgh.

 

Then ask what’s in the trash? The things we do.

 

One complaint with the Steelers that has been pretty consistent over many years is that they skimp on support. Less coaches, old equipment and facilities......I would not be shocked if that extends to medical support as well. Sometimes, you get what you pay for. Perhaps they hired people that are not good at what they do because they hired cheap.

 

Nobody has said it was Steelers staff that did it, have they???
We all know many of these players bring in their own specialty guys.

 

If I learned one thing from watching Hard Knocks it's that if you have some bs unproven medical therapy or nutrition program, pro athletes are a target rich audience.

 

Yeah, let's slow down here until we have some evidence of such.

 

50% of the posts on these boards are speculation about a very wide variety of things. This is just one more bit of speculation.

 

Nope, I have not seen anything official on it. I really doubt that we will as well. Between this being in the category of medical information, involving an NFL team in their facilities and the high profile player it happened to, I doubt we will ever hear anything other than generalities like: This is what happened, we are reviewing our procedures to prevent this from happening again and can't release anything more specific due to legal issues.

TJ Watt is one of the best players for the Steelers. He is the most highly paid Steeler. Now he can't play because of a dry needling error. He just had lung surgery. He is missing a game for sure. Who knows how many more? There could be lawsuits over this. The Steelers are losing a guy they are paying 2.4 million (averaged) per game. I am sure that there are a lot of people in the Steelers camp that are fuming mad that this happened. Looking on the internet (for what that is worth), there is less than a 1 in 10,000 chance of a punctured lung from dry needling. I am betting that there will be some lawsuits, firings or 'we no longer need your services' type of stuff going on depending on the relationship of the dry needler and the team (employee, outside contractor, TJ's personal guy.....etc). Risk management demands something changes when it costs you your highest paid player for a game+.

 

I've done some Googling on recovery times and such. All I say based upon my uneducation on this topic is that I don't expect Watt to return until the playoffs, and if he does return I'll be ecstatic.

I'm not going to speculate the fallout from the med staff wrongdoings, or what they were paid compared to the rest of the league.

 

Well fvck yeah. Everybody would like for him to show up for the playoffs!!!!

 

Partially collapsed lung.

"Yesterday TJ had successful surgery to stabilize and repair a partially collapsed lung suffered Wednesday after a dry needling treatment session at the facility," said JJ Watt, who is a minority investor in Premier League side Burnley.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/american-football/articles/crl991rn069o

 

Bunch of morons running the show over there. They keep hiring idiots. This should be the end of Tomlin.

 

Too true. Dry needling sounds like voodoo nonsense. Placebo effect with a cool image?