Jalen Hurts Blood Clot Diagnosis and Return Timeline

The story today was all about blood clots, and I know more about blood clots now than I think I have ever learned in my entire life, Dr. Chow, but it's the timing of that story that is confusing to a lot of people. Did he know he had a blood clot before he got on the plane to London? Did he not? What is the protocol? What is your experience with this? Well, not only did he know he had a blood clot, what type of blood clot? it makes a big difference whether it's a superficial venous clot versus a deep vein thrombosis the deep vein ones are the ones that are more dangerous and when the announcement came that the superficial small blood clot there was movement that's what concerned me last week that there's extension or propagation and now of course we have confirmation that it's deep in addition to deep that there's something into his lungs as well and that's what the concern is and this is why when it was first announced we said he was more likely to miss the season than play in week seven and now obviously that's come true with the IR but also he's likely with the lung issues to need up to three to six months of anticoagulation the good news though is you should be able to return. I mean, just this week, the Eagles played the Carolina Panthers and the Panthers right tackle this week in week six returned from his own blood clot issues in the lungs with anticoagulation. And so there's lots of precedent for playing and returning to play, but just not for a while is all unfortunately for Jalen Hurts. So, so Dr. Chow, you've been a team doctor and I've been a reporter for a long time. And so I'm going to further this conversation with you now. So the discussion that's going on is the way that the story was reported and how it came out and some of the extraneous things that have been discussed, too, about him not sleeping for 36 hours, being on a plane, why in the matter this was reported like this. And Dr. Chow, in my experience of being a reporter for this long, I know where this came from. This came from his agent. There's no question about that. And somehow it got into a reporter's hands and the reporter puts it out there. But I want to know what the purpose of that is, Dr. Chow. What is the purpose here? Is the purpose, because we haven't heard from Nick Sirianni or Howie Roseman, I'm going to assume we are. Will they be able to clean that story up? And that's sort of my issue here in the reporting, wondering why it happened and why it was brought up right now. Well, that's an interesting take, and it's a media take. I did see Nick Sirianni looking very uncomfortable as he was badgered with questions this afternoon and just kept referring to the medical statement. It was almost unfair for him to tackle some of these issues. Look, on my podcast this morning, I called BS on the not sleeping. There's no way a doctor said to Jalen Hurts, don't sleep because it's dangerous. That's not part of the protocol. When you do sleep at night, you actually do rustle and move around, and there's no reason not to sleep. And it turns out it was what I thought. I mean, he was out at the hospital till 4 a.m., got home, was a little bit restless, maybe didn't sleep well, didn't sleep a lot. But there's no way that the team is telling or the doctor is telling Jalen Hurts you can't go to sleep. That's not safe. as far as the flights go look yes everyone knows that if you have a blood clot in theory a long flight is dangerous but a what kind of blood clot superficial or deep and b if every lay person knows it don't you think the eagles doctors know it too look he's not flying in a middle seat on Southwest Airlines. It was a first class seat on a 747. And you can anticoagulate him, use TED hose mechanical, you can encourage him to do ankle pumps and take walks and whatever. And so even if there was a blood clot, there are ways to mitigate it, etc. So I don't think that was a faux pas. I mean, look, if you're telling me the Eagles had no concern about the blood clot a flight and didn't even worry about it or address the potential danger then yeah that's wrong but i just find it hard to believe that that's the case look i got asked on philadelphia tv earlier today hey do the team doctors travel with the team and i'm like uh no the team doctor does not three team doctors travel with the team and and you know look it's the same game as at home as it is on the road if they don't need you at home on the road they don't need you at home either there's a minimum of three doctors that went with the Eagles to London for that game.