Blackhawks forward Tyler Johnson opens up about becoming the second player in NHL history to have artificial disc replacement surgery and why he feels it was the best option.
"I had numbness and tingling in my arm for about a month without it going away," Johnson said."So it felt like I needed to do something for it."
Jack Eichel was the first player in NHL history to undergo the ADR surgery — three weeks before Johnson — and it's a big reason why he's no longer with the Buffalo Sabres. He was pushing to do it for a while and the Sabres doctors didn't give him the greenlight to do so. "I don't know if it would have changed anything, but I guess it really did help me know that he's done a lot more research than I did," Johnson responded when asked if he would've gone this route if Eichel didn't."He spent roughly a year or whatnot learning about it. It made me feel a little bit better in that sense.""When [the doctor] went in, he said it was way worse than they even thought it was," Johnson said.
Johnson is finally back in Chicago's lineup after a three-month recovery and feels even better than he did before.
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