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1 day agoFree agent CB Samuel (spine) given OK to play
Asante Samuel Jr. has been cleared for football activities after April spinal fusion surgery and plans to visit teams during free agency.
Her own, yes, but also the thousands of people she has met online who are, like her, recovering from spine surgery and often, like her, not their first. In the "Life After Back Surgery Support Group" on Facebook, they post questions, weary updates, and long, detailed accounts of their surgeries, sometimes good, sometimes very bad. Those with long-term pain reach for the language to describe it - "radiating," "unbearable," "like I've been kicked all night long,"