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Launch BoneyardMD. Alex Karaban's Ankle and Recovery. Have at it.

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Is it a rolled ankle? A sprain? A strain?
Lower leg injury? Ankle injury? Foot injury?
X-ray or MRI?
Ice? Heat? Rest? Walking boot? Knee scooter?
How should UConn treat this based on your own experiences? (Not your medical experience, your YMCA or intramural experience as a "player". )
What's the recovery timeline?
Discuss HIPAA.
These are college kids, not pros. Leave them alone.
Why is this the fault of Donny Marshall?
 
I’ll get this moving. Rub some dirt on It.

I hope he spent the night with his foot/ankle in an ice bath and he will be good for Saturday. If not he sits. We have more important games coming up in March/April.
 
I'm a bit scared that Hurley said his foot was swollen. I hope it's not a bone bruise because that can take months to heal. That wouldn't show up on an x-ray, he'd had to get an MRI to rule that out
 
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Minor roll, I knew when I saw him going straight to the locker room they were just taping it up. Played and shot like nothing happened upon returning.

The inventor of the RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) method, along with more recent research, has come out and said that ice actually slows the recovery process; it only relieves symptoms. The swelling is a necessary inflammatory response as part of the recovery process and icing only hinders that. So if the pain doesn’t hinder performance (didn’t seem to last night) I would hope they aren’t icing.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Minor roll, I knew when I saw him going straight to the locker room they were just taping it up. Played and shot like nothing happened upon returning.

The inventor of the RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) method, along with more recent research, has come out and said that ice actually slows the recovery process; it only relieves symptoms. The swelling is a necessary inflammatory response as part of the recovery process and icing only hinders that. So if the pain doesn’t hinder performance (didn’t seem to last night) I would hope they aren’t icing.
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I know a twisted ankle is a completely different thing but I wonder how the new thinking relates to post match exertion from normal exercise. Compression, rest, ice baths are what players use after a normal game, and you see it all the way down at the youth level.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Minor roll, I knew when I saw him going straight to the locker room they were just taping it up. Played and shot like nothing happened upon returning.

The inventor of the RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) method, along with more recent research, has come out and said that ice actually slows the recovery process; it only relieves symptoms. The swelling is a necessary inflammatory response as part of the recovery process and icing only hinders that. So if the pain doesn’t hinder performance (didn’t seem to last night) I would hope they aren’t icing.
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What about elevation, which arguably does the same thing?
 
Clearly a rolled ankle. Hit or miss for Saturday. It sounds bad but conceding an L in the coming weeks before the tournament is inevitable. Let’s do it when we’re dinged. AK also comes across as a fast healer. Remember the shot to the head he took last week.
 
RICE is protocol.
No way your getting AK off the court.Gamer like the rest of his teammates. This team is on a mission.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
he looked fine drilling a long range 3 when he came back in. Maybe soreness today but hopefully he can rest it a bit before Saturday
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Not sure about that. Looked like a serious roll. I’m sure he’s feeling worse today than last night. Hope for the best.
 
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Athletic trainer here, obviously they didn't disclose anything but watching it, it looks like a typical ankle sprain, if they're saying he has swelling in his foot, that's most likely due to gravity since he played on it immediately with no elevation. They took him in the back and most likely gave him an injection for the pain and taped him up real good, the thing to worry about is a high ankle sprain but the mechanism didn't really look that way, looked to be a textbook ATF and/or CF ankle sprain. Obviously I could be wrong since I'm not Hands-On with him and or seen any Diagnostics.
 
AdamaNation said:
Clearly a rolled ankle. Hit or miss for Saturday. It sounds bad but conceding an L in the coming weeks before the tournament is inevitable. Let’s do it when we’re dinged. AK also comes across as a fast healer. Remember the shot to the head he took last week.
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who are we conceding to?
 
AdamaNation said:
Clearly a rolled ankle. Hit or miss for Saturday. It sounds bad but conceding an L in the coming weeks before the tournament is inevitable. Let’s do it when we’re dinged. AK also comes across as a fast healer. Remember the shot to the head he took last week.
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Huh? We only lost one game without Castle and we only lost one game without DC. If AK has to sit out on Saturday, why in the world would we be conceiving that game?
 
Nostradamus here.

He'll be a bit more swollen and sore today, but the fact that he came back and moved the way he did after the sprain bodes well. Prediction: He'll play this weekend with it taped.
 
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Ankles are weird, I have thin ankles and twist them a lot but for some reason they're incredibly resilient. My last one was a month ago when I twisted it very badly and fell down an entire flight of stairs luckily getting my arms out right before my face hit the slate floor. My ankle was twitching and hurt for about 5 minutes and then nothing.

It's hard to tell just from seeing an ankle twist/roll, sometimes it looks awful and the player bounces right back. AK's didn't look too bad and they put him back in after not too long in the locker room. With a knee injury you know right away.
 
Letsgohuskies11 said:
If it was that serious why would they let him back in the game?
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Not a can’t even put weight on his foot serious but rather ballooning up overnight and more pain today. When he rolled it, he had it taped up and roughed it out. Today, he might even be able to put on a shoe.
 
FearThePups said:
Not a can’t even put weight on his foot serious but rather ballooning up overnight and more pain today. When he rolled it, he had it taped up and roughed it out. Today, he might even be able to put on a shoe.
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Not even
 
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