How it's done doesn't matter to be honest, impact injuries could damage surrounding cartilage or other parts of the knee but a rupture is a rupture.
For context, I did my first playing football, high pressing the defence just chasing the ball down, changed direction quickly and my body moved but left knee didnt. Pop. I was a good 5 yards away from anyone. Did my right playing five a side, setting myself to volley a ball until a defender got a slight touch which made me adjust my position quickly and leg just gave way completely. That was a 25% tear and radial tear of my lateral meniscus in two places. Zero impact whatsoever on both occasions.
Pro's have much more knee muscle to protect the ligaments which can help but it's a delicate ligament which doesn't heal. Even if it is a partial, he'd be far better taking the time to having it sorted properly and reconstructed rather that suture a small tear together and the ligament never retain it's original limited strength.
Doing a Lachman on an acutely swollen knee is pretty difficult to interpret.
How it's done doesn't matter to be honest, impact injuries could damage surrounding cartilage or other parts of the knee but a rupture is a rupture.
For context, I did my first playing football, high pressing the defence just chasing the ball down, changed direction quickly and my body moved but left knee didnt. Pop. I was a good 5 yards away from anyone. Did my right playing five a side, setting myself to volley a ball until a defender got a slight touch which made me adjust my position quickly and leg just gave way completely. That was a 25% tear and radial tear of my lateral meniscus in two places. Zero impact whatsoever on both occasions.
Pro's have much more knee muscle to protect the ligaments which can help but it's a delicate ligament which doesn't heal. Even if it is a partial, he'd be far better taking the time to having it sorted properly and reconstructed rather that suture a small tear together and the ligament never retain it's original limited strength.
If we had ducks they would drownI hope his op goes well, and we get better news on Friday. Holding out hope that only a few fibres are torn and he'll recover relatively quickly.
Season ender. Title decider. Without him we are back to being unbalanced... Big risk taken not to sign another LB and its come back to bite us in the arse now. Big time. Oh well...... Maybe Pep has a plan......
The worse bit of all this. What a bloody unnecessary challenge he went for! Totally not needed. Completely!
Well let's wait and see. I get the feeling that it's not as severe as some are thinking.If we had ducks they would drown