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When healthy, Branyan is physically powerful. With a herniated disk, it is likely that there is associated physical weakness, say in his arms or legs, wherever the nerves go that are associated with the disk. I have seen it first hand with Thoracic Outlet Syndrome (see Kenny Rogers, Hank Blalock, etc.), where pressure is applied to nerves/blood vessels in the shoulder. You can measure the loss of strength in the throwing arm compared even to the opposite arm. The muscle mass is still there, but the weakness is real.