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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 4519497, member: 37"] I have not seen a report either. The contact that she had in the Georgetown game appeared to be incidental contact of leg to leg between two players that, when it happened, caused a great degree of flexion and sufficient pain that made her stop, rub her knee and walk gingerly on that leg. Shortly afterwords there was concern enough which led to the precautions of non play and two weeks of non weight bearing on that leg. That can be construed as precautionary but it can also mean that there is a weakness of the support ligaments attached to the knee that do not provide stability and bracing when the knee receives contact. The mobility she demonstrated on the bench would demonstrate that a tear in the ligaments was unlikely which reduces the known outcome that she was no longer able to play this season but in of itself would not be definitive. An MRI would be needed to confirm it and we have no information on that. An argument can be made that the type of situation Azzi is facing in her knee does not fall into a category that the medical field has a definitive modality of treatment other than rest. And the outcomes such as length of time needed or whether there can be a prediction of a complete vs partial restoration of health long term could be unknown. [/QUOTE]