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horny_gunman

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  1. Short story: this is the equivalent of a minor ankle sprain, no bone or cartilage is involved. Because there is no further instability involved, treatment is to allow the ligaments to stop being painful. Then play. His physical exams and on-field try-it-out will determine that. Longer story: the SC joint is an end-to-end joint. Think of two bones just coming together. There is cartilage that covers the ends of the bones and a cartilage “piece” between them. Then it’s wrapped VERY tightly with ligament tissue. What an SC sprain is technically, is injury tothe ligament tissue alone. Fracture means bone involvement. Cartilage has nothing to do with the ligament tissue. Tearing of any of the cartilage is akin to a meniscus tear in the knee - swelling and instability and pain. There is technically no structural damage visible on an MRI. i don’t expect Sark and certainly not FCB to understand these things. Sark just needs to know that he’s “good to go”
  2. The medical info here is wrong anyway but tldr; FCB. The docs who have actually evaluated Ewers will return him when he is ready.
  3. I’ll take this as honest inquiry: but the answer is no. Again, the joint itself is fine - thanks for the additional input from @Sawbonz and @ChiTownDoc - if the joint structure itself was needing repair, that’s bad. His ligament structure is what is damaged — stretched actually — and that is going through a natural inflammatory process, which would be necessary to heal it up. If he wound up weeks from now with on-going pain or issues then conceivably, yes you can go ahead and push some PRP or stem cells into the capsule/ligament to stimulate a novel healing process. I’ve seen these heal in around 4 weeks for D-1 athletes and high schoolers, so OU is a reasonable timeframe.
  4. I’ve been trying to respond to this thread:. Yes an SC sprain is a whole different beast - can actually be life-threatening on the left side due to major blood vessels. An AC sprain (grades 1-2) would have been best-case scenario as our surgeon friend explains and what we were hoping for when they said MRI. So yeah, damn. No you cannot technically rehab the joint itself (it’s a joint not an actual muscle!) so you rehab the chest, shoulda, shoulder blades etc - everything around it. once his pain is controlled, and his mechanics are not affected, he will be cleared. I’m actually in the sports medicine business myself. But not a nurse.
  5. @immamac and @RGBIII
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