The methods through which NFL teams and trainers have practiced pain management with their players is one of the underpublicized dirty little secrets of the game, in my opinion. Physical injury and corresponding pain is a necessary condition of playing the game of football. Anybody who has any type of sustained career is going to have to deal with it at some point.
In recent years, many players have spoken out against the commonplace use and misuse of NSAIDs as the go-to pain management treatment prescribed by team physicians to help players manage pain. The weekly Toradol shots have become known as the “T Train”, a phenomenon chronicled by former first-round tackle Eugene Monroe, who retired early to become an advocate for the use of marijuana as an alternative for pain management.