Skins Injury Thread 2012

I had a partial tear before and it healed up just fine. It took a while though. 6 to 8 weeks sounds like a very short time. For me, it was a partial tear in my thumb from playing hockey and it took 6 months to really feel better even though I could play again much sooner.

Basically, if there is something partially torn and partially holding on, enough rest allows the body to reconnect the torn ligament. A full tear requires the torn ligament to be tied up and pinned to the bone so that it will reconnect and heal.

Many times, something can be designed to prevent the injured digit from overextending. Then, it would be possible to numb the area and let him go back out and play during the healing process. The problem is that the extra work is pretty painful after playing once the shot wears off. Basically feels like a setback even if muscularly it isn't.

It just depends on the severity of the tear. Unless it's torn significantly or all the way through, rest can heal it.

i just want this offense to stay healthy and the defense to get healthy. we finally have a legit touchdown scoring offense, not field goals left and right. Now the d cant stay healthy. welcome to being a skins fan you get one not the other

That new banner is nice, but its just inviting more injuries..haha

RIP Chase Minnifield.

Be our Jarvis Jenkins next year, son.

Does anybody know whether there's been talk about a concussion with London? I keep reading the balance problem, and we all saw him get knocked out of the Giants game...but no word of concussion? Maybe the team is being more "cautious" with the word because of the RG3 situation from two weeks ago?

[QUOTE=CultBrennan59;956861]2 things I want to state:

1) I was watching, I want to say ESPN; if not Foxsports; and they did a report on astro turf and how it causes players to get Lisfranc injuries and ACL tears greater than grass fields. Garcon got injured in New Orleans, which is turf. How soon until the NFL says "all fields must be grass"

2) I've mentioned this before, but isn't it a tad odd that our banner, of the 6 guys listed there, 4 of them are injured and/or done for the year...

- New Orleans is fieldturf, not astroturf. They are completely different surfaces. Fieldturf is just as safe as Grass. I think the only place that still uses astroturf is Buffalo but I think they changed it last year.

Garcon just gets hurt. Don't blame the turf.

Does anybody know whether there's been talk about a concussion with London? I keep reading the balance problem, and we all saw him get knocked out of the Giants game...but no word of concussion? Maybe the team is being more "cautious" with the word because of the RG3 situation from two weeks ago?

From what I read, they are evaluating to see if a concussion is the problem. Shanny basically said at this point, its up to the Doctors. There are a fair amount of things that can affect balance besides concussions. Inner Ear problems and Vertigo I think are the most common. But even some Heart issues can cause it.

FieldTurf might be better than AstroTurf, but some players have been critical of FieldTurf too.

FieldTurf might be better than AstroTurf, but some players have been critical of FieldTurf too.i'd love to read what they have said about it, i love the stuff. i would play every game on it if i had the choice.

From what I read, they are evaluating to see if a concussion is the problem. Shanny basically said at this point, its up to the Doctors. There are a fair amount of things that can affect balance besides concussions. Inner Ear problems and Vertigo I think are the most common. But even some Heart issues can cause it.

Good points. I've had dizziness from blood pressure issues, and at least one friend with the inner ear thing and it sucks. Although, in London's case I kinda hope it's the inner ear being the least serious of the possibilities probably.