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It's neither discouraging or encouraging news. I'm sure Liam is living in the Werth Center, they don't have a hyperbaric chamber on campus do they?
 
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The recovery times in the study below seem incredibly fast given the "4-6 weeks at least" time frame that has been thrown around for Liam. (For those who won't bother to click the link: The study looked at 20 football players who had high ankle sprains. The injuries varied in severity. The longest time to return to unrestricted activity observed was 30 days, and the mean time was 15.5 days.)


Any doctory people out there have any idea if there's reason to think Liam might fit into this range, or if there's something about his injury or the differences between football and basketball that make his recovery longer? If he takes as long as the slowest recoverer in the study, he'll be back by the Marquette game. Can I get my hopes up?
 
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The recovery times in the study below seem incredibly fast given the "4-6 weeks at least" time frame that has been thrown around for Liam. (For those who won't bother to click the link: The study looked at 20 football players who had high ankle sprains. The injuries varied in severity. The longest time to return to unrestricted activity observed was 30 days, and the mean time was 15.5 days.)

Any doctory people out there have any idea if there's reason to think Liam might fit into this range, or if there's something about his injury or the differences between football and basketball that make his recovery longer? If he takes as long as the slowest recoverer in the study, he'll be back by the Marquette game. Can I get my hopes up?
This study below says 6-8 weeks or more!! Why the drastic difference between professional basketball players and college football players?!

 

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He’s in street clothes and a boot. You can do what he’s doing with a broken leg
Eh, I'll take the other side. I've seen bad high ankle sprains where the patient can't even put weight on the leg for 10-12 days. So this is actually promising - though that doesn't necessarily mean quick. It still may be a month, but it's not one that looks like 2 months. IMO.
 

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Eh, I'll take the other side. I've seen bad high ankle sprains where the patient can't even put weight on the leg for 10-12 days. So this is actually promising - though that doesn't necessarily mean quick. It still may be a month, but it's not one that looks like 2 months. IMO.
I was gonna say, him casually walking around already, seemingly with little discomfort, should be a good sign? It'd be worse if he was obviously trying not to put any weight on it.
 
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I’m not exactly saying anything too groundbreaking here but this is one of those situations where you have to err on the side of caution and think about the kid’s future. A one-off sprain isn’t anything - but bringing him back too soon and having something else go wrong could jeopardize his earning potential (and from a selfish perspective, it would also jeopardize our chance at recruiting elite talent in the future if other places can point to what happened to Liam and say that we don’t care about our athletes). When the medical staff says “he looks good” and the sentence ends right there without a “but”, we’re good to go.
 
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I remember when Scott Hazelton hurt his leg or foot or ankle. He kept taking off the boot and it took forever to heal. Liam need to get back in the pool.
 

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I remember when Scott Hazelton hurt his leg or foot or ankle. He kept taking off the boot and it took forever to heal. Liam need to get back in the pool.

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I am going to chill. We aren’t playing to win January. It’s good for the rest of the team I hope.
 
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I recall Clingan came back the home game against Creighton last year. Hurley is superstitious. See upcoming 1/18 home game vs Creighton.
 
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