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Message: [QUOTE="Cuseregular, post: 5149619, member: 185"] With almost 100% certainty I can tell yas what’s going on here. Taught orthopedics and orthopedic sports injuries for 30 years treating same often as a dr. type. But more significantly in terms of having a good feel for this I had the what I think is the EXACT same injury from the EXACT same mechanism/type of play. It’s similar to what happened to dave W last year but in this case making a tackle flying through the air, where both their outer lateral lower legs swing into a rigid object, in this case either the standing qbs or our guys body. Dave W’s was clearly worse wirh an actual broken leg, fibula and likely tibia. Marlowe does not look as bad in that he was walking albeit gingerly for a bit which means it’s likely only the fibula involved. The fibula is not a weight bearing bone so you can move and walk with it injured as it is supportive to the tibia which is and needs to be solid to walk. As I mentioned above this happened to me and I remember like yesterday limping off the field. Hurt like a mother but kept it on the down low to finish the game, albeit less effectively. It’s so painful that when it happens you think the worst and it’s worse case scenario because it feels that way sharp intense pain wise. This because there’s a superficial nerve right there (called the common fibular/peroneal/superficial nerve – a part of and offshoot of the sciatic nerve), and that gets traumatized and injured, shooting pain down the leg where the nerve goes just like when you hit your “funny bone“ (the ulnar nerve). This temporarily paralyzes the muscles it supplies from the compression injury of it (again this is temporary). In my case as mentioned was limping a bit but able to walk and run so played two more games before finally getting it xrayed when a small hairline fracture was diagnosed. It was “better” in 4 weeks (no more pain no limping) and completely healed in 6 weeks. So here best case scenario is both a bone bruise and a nerve contusion and that would mean he’d be back in 2 to 3 maximum four weeks. If it is x-rayed and found to be a hairline fracture, he will be out 6 to 8 weeks. If it is an actual broken bone, meaning the two broken pieces of the bone are displaced away from each other then that’s a 8 to 12 week season ending type deal. I’m strangely optimistic that it will be one of the first two scenarios. Let’s hope so. [/QUOTE]

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