Michael Thomas likes Nader's Tweet on the Saints Medical Staff

What no one has talked about is the human side o the equation! The Dr’s can only do what they do best. Once they set the program in motion the player has to follow the rules to the tee. These are highly fine tuned athletes who has always trained and pushed their bodies past its limits. Sometimes they do not follow the directions for whatever reasons and you get set backs. We do not know if it’s the athletes or Dr’s who is wrong but with so many success rates I would tend to think some athletes my not follow orders.
Yep, patient noncompliance is a real thing doctors deal with all the time.

With athletes, factor in the pressure coming down on them from coaches all the way up to the owner to get back on the field as soon as they can as well as the pressure they already put on themselves as hyper competitive people and it's easy to see how they could maybe try to cut corners in the plan of care to get back to work.