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Cal Paduda couldn’t take faceoffs anymore. Any resistance on his right hand, he had to drop the stick.
“I was playing defense on Matt Walters in practice,” Paduda said. “I was running down with him and I pushed out against him and I felt a really weird feeling in my hand.
“I thought it was broken.”
Every MRI came up negative, so he played his entire freshman year with what he thought was a bad bruise on his finger. He wouldn’t find out for a year that his bruise was actually torn ligaments that were supposed to hold his knuckle in place.
Two surgeries and months of chronic pain forced Paduda to take on a different role for Syracuse, providing moral support and advice for his teammates while he rehabbed. When the redshirt sophomore debuts this season, it’ll be his first game action since the 2013 NCAA championship...
http://www.dailyorange.com/2015/02/...rength-after-tearing-ligaments-in-right-hand/
“I was playing defense on Matt Walters in practice,” Paduda said. “I was running down with him and I pushed out against him and I felt a really weird feeling in my hand.
“I thought it was broken.”
Every MRI came up negative, so he played his entire freshman year with what he thought was a bad bruise on his finger. He wouldn’t find out for a year that his bruise was actually torn ligaments that were supposed to hold his knuckle in place.
Two surgeries and months of chronic pain forced Paduda to take on a different role for Syracuse, providing moral support and advice for his teammates while he rehabbed. When the redshirt sophomore debuts this season, it’ll be his first game action since the 2013 NCAA championship...
http://www.dailyorange.com/2015/02/...rength-after-tearing-ligaments-in-right-hand/