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Armando Salguero @ArmandoSalguero 3m3 minutes ago Mike Pouncey said he initially thought he was fine so he stayed in the game but then realized "I couldn't play on it." Armando Salguero @ArmandoSalguero Mike Pouncey, a brace on his left knee, says MRI in the morning but "not too worried about it." Dave Hyde @davehydesports Poincey, smiling, asked about knee. "I'm not too concerned about it." 5 retweets 5 favorites
The weird thing about ACL injuries is that some guys tear them and can't walk under their own power. Other guys tear their ACL's and move around to the point where you think they're totally fine. I really hope he's OK. I thought he got pulled because it's dumb to have him in there w/any kind of injury, but now that he's saying he couldn't play on it... I'm concerned.
Armando Salguero @ArmandoSalguero 1m1 minute ago Release of J.D. Walton shows Dolphins comfortable with Mike Pouncey health status and with Sam Brenner as backup center.
A partial tear will heal itself. You just need to wear a brace and manage the pain. I'm speaking from personal experience.
lol..Where do people come up with this stuff? You're 100% wrong. ACL's self heal. "Frobell's team randomly assigned 121 young, active adults -- many of them highly competitive, non-professional athletes -- to two different treatments. Both groups underwent a highly structured rehabilitation program in which they worked up from improving balance and coordination to knee strengthening exercises. One group underwent ACL reconstruction within 10 weeks of injury. But the other group delayed ACL reconstruction until it became obvious they needed it -- or until they healed. Two years later, both groups had good results. Neither treatment strategy was better than the other. But there was one big difference: 60% of those who delayed surgery found they never needed the operation".
so you want people to believe that professional athletes have surgery that they do not need? Wow that is almost laughable. Why would they do that? There are several problems with the "active adults" 1. not professional athlete's 2. Professional athletes dont have 2 years to return 3. your own support of your position says "Neither treatment was better then the other" 4. 60% of those who delayed surgery found they never needed the operation (100% of those will never use there knee to the extreme a professional athlete like Pouncey will)
Technically, if its a 3rd degree sprain also known as a rupture then they wont heal themselves. Most people rupture their ACL's when they injure them. Occasionally, it will stay intact (1st degree micro tear 2nd degree macro tear), then scar tissue builds and the ligament while technically not healing itself, begins to get stronger. Most people will need surgery eventually from any kind of ACL injury. However, there are plenty of anomaly's and some people just have very good musculature around the knee and those muscles can compensate for what the ACL is not doing.
Thank you, FFG, as always, for your insight. Hopefully, he's ok and two weeks of rest allows him to start against Washington. A question I've had for a while now (hoping not to derail the thread) for you or anyone else knowledgeble. For non atheletes, if someone injures their knee, how would they know if it were an ACL tear, or something similar? Since some players can walk on it after they get hurt, you would think that some regular people would too. Lets say if someone hurts their knee falling down the steps, or tripping over something, and doesn't go to see a doctor or to the ER. If they can walk on it, will the pain ever fade, or if it's something bad will it never get better? I get these injuries from time to time, where I hurt myself, and after the initial pain lessens, it'll hurt for a few weeks to a month, but then eventually get better, and I'm always curious what exactly I did to myself, lol.
