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Message: [QUOTE="STEVEHOLT, post: 3034995, member: 522"] I'm farily certain no physician would say that he could not make his injury worse by playing. The only person who said that is Kerr, and I'd question the validity of his statement before I'd believe a team doctor or doctors would say such a thing. We don't know the details of his original injury. Even the term "calf injury" is not very informative. How do you define "calf"? Last I looked, the term calf never showed up in any of my anatomy texts. You have the medial and lateral heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and the soleus muscle which are the major muscles of the posterior lower leg. They come together to form a conjoint tendon..the Achilles... so what was actually injured in that first injury? they claim "calf injury" ..not very helpful. what we DO know is that if if he had a muscle strain so significant that he was out a month, this would have an effect on the tendon at least indirectly. if the muscle is weak or injured, that puts added stress on the tendon if stressed. Think reverse of the issue with tendon tears and steroids. People that got huge on juice had muscle growth disproportion to degree of tendon strength increase. . This is not opinion..this is accepted fact. so either he had a muscle strain / tear originally or a partial achilles tear/ either way, no physician with any level of background in sports medicine would dare say " YOU CANT MAKE A SOFT TISSUE INJURY WORSE BY STRESSING THE VERY ANATOMIC STRUCTURE THAT IS INJURED" It's incomprehensible. There is a third possibility. There is a vestigal muscle called the plantaris...which is a little bitch muscle that is actually not even present in everyone...it follows similar course as the gastrocnemius but has it's own tendon. If THAT tears..it will hurt like a bitch and you will be limited based on pain tolerance. but once its torn, it's torn...you dont fix that tendon..it isn't important. now if he tore the plantaris...THEN I would agree with the doctors that playing would not increase his risk of further injury. [/QUOTE]

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