greybeard
01-02-2008, 08:14 PM
Fifth Metatarsal breaks. There's been another one. Levance Fields, the guy from Pitt who hit the dagger, won't be hitting anything for a while, except with a crutch.
Back when I was real, real young, it was ankles. They were easy, you taped em up real tight, and guys grit their teeth and played, in the pros with a lttle help, but they really were not a big thing. Early 60's, every body started discovering that they had carteleges and that those rubbery things could actually tear. Seemed improbable based upon our collective experiences in trying to get the last bit of meat off of drumsticks, but, so it was.
Miniscus became a household term, sort of like "ice box" or "Frigidare" (am I dating myself here).
Then, and I'm not sure when this happened, it became ACL tears and rotary cuff injuries. I mean, ask a Junior High School kid what the capitol of NJ is, and you get a blank stare. Ask how you rehab from ACL surgery, chapter and verse.
Now, it's that fifth metatarsal, or so it seems. I think that this is a nasty one, particularly because it doesn't seem like it, the break, happens because of a mishap. Seems that they are just breaking. And, unlike cartileges and ACL's, what myth will be created for how people need only find a way to train better to avoid them. Heck, it seems that if there was ever an injury that is due to overtraining, this here is it.
So, where to from here? Insurance, baby, that's where I see this thing going. Guys are going to go out and get their fifths insured special. Not like the rest of them. They're going to double down at least on these babies.
Nope, I'm not worrying about the players. What, with insurance companies abandoning insuring houses in droves, built in a flood plain, sorry, built in a fire plain, sorry, we got too many at risk properties we haven't unloaded yet, sorry, insurance agents will be seeking players out like crazy.
The guys I'm worried about are the coaches. Be interesting to see how they handle it.
Back when I was real, real young, it was ankles. They were easy, you taped em up real tight, and guys grit their teeth and played, in the pros with a lttle help, but they really were not a big thing. Early 60's, every body started discovering that they had carteleges and that those rubbery things could actually tear. Seemed improbable based upon our collective experiences in trying to get the last bit of meat off of drumsticks, but, so it was.
Miniscus became a household term, sort of like "ice box" or "Frigidare" (am I dating myself here).
Then, and I'm not sure when this happened, it became ACL tears and rotary cuff injuries. I mean, ask a Junior High School kid what the capitol of NJ is, and you get a blank stare. Ask how you rehab from ACL surgery, chapter and verse.
Now, it's that fifth metatarsal, or so it seems. I think that this is a nasty one, particularly because it doesn't seem like it, the break, happens because of a mishap. Seems that they are just breaking. And, unlike cartileges and ACL's, what myth will be created for how people need only find a way to train better to avoid them. Heck, it seems that if there was ever an injury that is due to overtraining, this here is it.
So, where to from here? Insurance, baby, that's where I see this thing going. Guys are going to go out and get their fifths insured special. Not like the rest of them. They're going to double down at least on these babies.
Nope, I'm not worrying about the players. What, with insurance companies abandoning insuring houses in droves, built in a flood plain, sorry, built in a fire plain, sorry, we got too many at risk properties we haven't unloaded yet, sorry, insurance agents will be seeking players out like crazy.
The guys I'm worried about are the coaches. Be interesting to see how they handle it.