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Nostical said:
I'm worried about Ware. With announcers saying they've never seen anything like that ever before in a basketball game--think about that-- our friend (a head radiologist) and my wife (also in medical field) both made the same exact comment immediately afterward. Considering the way it happened and the bone involved, they both suspected there may be something else going on in his bone --hopefully not--but they were both independently suspicious. Thoughts and prayers.
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Agreed - immediate thought was undiagnosed stress fractures.
 
When Marcus Lattimores leg broke that was horrible as well. Leg did something horrendous like Wares. Now look at Lattimore. He's preparing and trying to show NFL teams that he worthy of being drafted or signed. Anything is possible.
 
Husky999 said:
Give me a worse example??? I post an opinion you go. NO.
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How about Mike Utley Dennis Byrd, Darryl Stingley, Alex Zanardi,

It's a horrific injury no doubt and god bless the young man and I hope like hell he makes a full recovery and lives his dream of the NBA, but not close to the worse sports injury
 
louisville is gonna win the tournament. nobody's even playing close to their level, and now they have extra motivation.
 
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i 'm rooting for Ware to return obviously but also Ville to win it all. I have no hard feelings against them, they had to go to the ACC with the invite as we would. use and Pitt different story.
 
I hate to say it, but I bet this comes as some type of bone cancer. It was just him landing. I really feel bad for the kid.
 
UConner said:
I hate to say it, but I bet this comes as some type of bone cancer. It was just him landing. I really feel bad for the kid.
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I tend to agree and recall an NFL player that had something similar where a break led to a cancer diagnosis which ended his playing career but saved his life. Regardless is that's the case or not, it's going to be a huge longshot for him to come back again. Sam Bowie comes to mind. Basketball is such a physically demanding sport. Theismann couldn't come back and NFL quarterbacks take much less pounding on their legs than guards in basketball. Let's hope for the best for the kid.
 
Well, bone cancer is exactly what my radiologist friend suspected when it happened. Hopefully (if true) this will save him. It can otherwise go undetected for years till its too late. It's always foolish to predict such things, but lets hope for the best.
 
You know, I just pray for the kid. Horrific, horrific injury.
 
@YahooForde: Kevin Ware update: successful two-hour surgery, per UL release. Bone re-set, injury closed and rod inserted in right tibia.

Good news.
 
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I hate to ask this but did his bone break through the skin?
 
I saw it live, wasn't sure, my wife insisted the bone was protruding, I thought it was his sock. I'll pass on seeing it again. Yuck, prayers and best wishes to the kid.
 
I definitely did. I saw somewhere that a player or coach was saying that it came out by almost 6 inches. Just gruesome.
 
I am going to pass on looking for it. Based on this thread can I assume he was in the air, landed somehow and SNAP(!!!!)...out comes bone, down goes Ware in agonizing pain?
 
noeynox said:
I hate to ask this but did his bone break through the skin?
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Yes. It was a compound fracture, in which case, the bone breaks through the skin. Pitino said the bone was protruding six inches.

There are clips where you can see the exposed bone in slomo before the leg snaps back as he is falling on his back.
Extremely gruesome. At least CBS did not show those clips!
 
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Dove said:
I am going to pass on looking for it. Based on this thread can I assume he was in the air, landed somehow and SNAP(!!!!)...out comes bone, down goes Ware in agonizing pain?
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Yes, very close to that.
 
Yea, it was weird though. The fall he took, I don't know would normally end up with a result like that.

I thought the way the rest of his leg looked was much more disturbing than the bone...but the whole thing was just terrible.

Good to hear successful surgery. Hoping for a full recovery.
 
Dove said:
I am going to pass on looking for it. Based on this thread can I assume he was in the air, landed somehow and SNAP(!!!!)...out comes bone, down goes Ware in agonizing pain?
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Flew out at a three-point shooter - no contact with another player at all. It's only speculation, but there's a theory that as he was landing he was concerned (perhaps merely instinctively) about tumbling off the elevated court so he tried to stop himself as he landed. No way to know - i doubt Ware would even remember what was going through his mind beforehand. Either way, he came down with all his weight on one leg and it didn't hold.
 
Never seen an injury like that in basketball. His leg just gave out and it was horrific to see. Amazing that he kept it together to tell his teammates to get back out there and win the game.
 
Gurleyman said:
Flew out at a three-point shooter - no contact with another player at all. It's only speculation, but there's a theory that as he was landing he was concerned (perhaps merely instinctively) about tumbling off the elevated court so he tried to stop himself as he landed. No way to know - i doubt Ware would even remember what was going through his mind beforehand. Either way, he came down with all his weight on one leg and it didn't hold.
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Thanks. I can imagine it now.
 
noeynox said:
I hate to ask this but did his bone break through the skin?
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It sure did. There's an absolutely horrific up-close picture of it floating around now. I won't even link it, but it vividly and clearly shows about 4 inches of bloody tibia bone sticking out of his leg.

It's honestly one of the most gruesome pictures I've ever seen.
 
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...n-ware-successful-broken-leg-surgery/2041241/

"An open fracture could have been caused simply by the amount of force and the angle at which Ware landed after leaping to challenge a Duke shot, Roberts said. "It looks like what we call a bending fracture—like snapping a pencil with your finger," he said. "There was a significant amount of force, and the angle looked about right."

There is a video/view from the other end of the court (from top of basket). You can see him rotating in mid-air to face basket as he lands. All weight onto right legs. Just bad physics...

"As for returning to the sport, Roberts thought Ware's prognosis was good. "There's a very high likelihood that we'll see him play again," he said."
 
noeynox said:
I hate to ask this but did his bone break through the skin?
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Yes, the skin is not that strong. A paper cut will breach it, a bone pooping out with that much force is no match. Fortunately its now reset and the open wound closed.

Amazing how a day after it seems like a temporary discomfort (i.e. rod, cast, etc..).
 
Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said basketball players are prone to stress fractures in the tibia, the larger of the two leg bones, and that can weaken them.
''If these are not detected they can result in a full fracture, particularly if the landing mechanics are just right'' after a jump, Estes said. Surgery to stabilize the bones is usually successful, and Ware should be fine to play next season, he said.
Dr. Frederick Azar, head of the Campbell Clinic in Memphis, Tenn., and a spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, said Ware ''jumped pretty far horizontally and vertically, and he landed with a twist,'' which puts so much torsion and stress on the bones they could have just snapped. He agreed with Estes' assessment that a stress fracture could have made Ware more prone to such an injury.
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Glad to hear it isn't the bone cancer scenario that, with the best of intentions, was being kicking around here yesterday. Man that was an ugly, ugly injury. Glad to hear he'll be ok.
 
For those who want to confirm it was a compound fracture, do a google image search "Kevin Ware close up"

Not a good idea if you have a weak stomach though.

Glad to hear he's recovering well. Proud of both UL basketball programs for their wins last night.
 
Washington Post - Kevin Ware’s gruesome injury likely just bad luck. Safe for the quasey - no pictures.

"It’s a torsional injury,” said Craig H. Bennett, head orthopedic surgeon for the Maryland Terrapins, who has seen only one similar injury in the past decade. “It’s a rotational injury, and all the stress gets concentrated on one area.”

Normally, he said, knee or ankle ligaments would absorb the stress of Ware’s twisting leap, tearing if the forces were too great or simply doing their job and sending him back to the game. But Ware landed in just the wrong way, Bennett believes, and the result was an injury that likely will be remembered for as long a the NCAA tournament is played.

Another, less likely, possibility, said Frederic Azar, an orthopedic surgeon and spokesman for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons, is that Ware had a weak spot in the bone, possibly from an undiagnosed stress fracture. Such fractures can result from the constant pounding on a basketball player’s legs, or, more rarely, can be caused by a benign tumor."
 
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