Both quarterback Jay Cutler and running back Matt Forte suffered injuries that cut their seasons short for the Chicago Bears. But it was wide receiver Johnny Knox's back injury that was the most frightening. Anyone who saw the injury as it happened will remember how bad it looked. He was down for a long time while the trainers attended to him and finally left the field on an injury cart.
The collision during the game against Seattle left Knox with a fractured vertebrae that required surgery. Alex Ghanayem, a spine specialist at Loyola University Medical Center told the Chicago Tribune, "The bone has to heal first. But (you) don't start doing back exercises until two to three months after surgery, on average," Ghanayem said. "In terms of getting back into sports ... we're talking six months after surgery is the rough minimum when you're ready for full-fledged contact. But that depends on how much damage there was, too, at the time of surgery."
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