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The list of serious injuries that UConn women are dealing with seems pretty long.

Piath Gabriel- intestinal surgery, still recovering
Saylor Poffenbarger- stress fracture in vertebrae. Decided against surgery
Paige Bueckers- surgery on ankle, hasn't fully recovered
Nika Muhl-ankle injury incurred early in the NCAA tournament. Yet to fully recover
Caroline Ducharme- previous injuries include torn labrum, ACL tear
Azzi Fudd- sprained her foot and wore walking boot through April. Follows ACL and MCL tears in high school

Not sure if I've missed any...? Hoping all recover completely and quickly.
 
I don’t think UConn WBB is unusual in either the number or severity of injuries/surgery the team is dealing with during the off-season. More importantly, everyone should be 100% by Fall.

It’s my understanding that by the end of summer workouts Caroline, Azzi & Nika were full go. Paige and Piath have made significant progress and should be at 100% when they return in September.

From what I am hearing, only Saylor may have a longer road back. Hopefully, she’s ready by the start of the season.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
The list of serious injuries that UConn women are dealing with seems pretty long.

Piath Gabriel- intestinal surgery, still recovering
Saylor Poffenbarger- stress fracture in vertebrae. Decided against surgery
Paige Bueckers- surgery on ankle, hasn't fully recovered
Nika Muhl-ankle injury incurred early in the NCAA tournament. Yet to fully recover
Caroline Ducharme- previous injuries include torn labrum, ACL tear
Azzi Fudd- sprained her foot and wore walking boot through April. Follows ACL and MCL tears in high school

Not sure if I've missed any...? Hoping all recover completely and quickly.
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Wow, I'm really scared now. Maybe we should see if Autumn is available to come back just in case we run out of capable players.
 
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Fairfield Fan said:
The list of serious injuries that UConn women are dealing with seems pretty long.

Piath Gabriel- intestinal surgery, still recovering
Saylor Poffenbarger- stress fracture in vertebrae. Decided against surgery
Paige Bueckers- surgery on ankle, hasn't fully recovered
Nika Muhl-ankle injury incurred early in the NCAA tournament. Yet to fully recover
Caroline Ducharme- previous injuries include torn labrum, ACL tear
Azzi Fudd- sprained her foot and wore walking boot through April. Follows ACL and MCL tears in high school

Not sure if I've missed any...? Hoping all recover completely and quickly.
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I must disagree with Caroline being on this list. Those are older injuries that she is not dealing with anymore.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
The list of serious injuries that UConn women are dealing with seems pretty long.

Piath Gabriel- intestinal surgery, still recovering
Saylor Poffenbarger- stress fracture in vertebrae. Decided against surgery
Paige Bueckers- surgery on ankle, hasn't fully recovered
Nika Muhl-ankle injury incurred early in the NCAA tournament. Yet to fully recover
Caroline Ducharme- previous injuries include torn labrum, ACL tear
Azzi Fudd- sprained her foot and wore walking boot through April. Follows ACL and MCL tears in high school

Not sure if I've missed any...? Hoping all recover completely and quickly.
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you forgot Griffin, ONO and Westbrook who've all had knee injuries..........UConn has been good, lucky or both in the rare recurrences of injury from their players.....
 
chrissaran said:
ACL tears in women recur all the time. Ask Shea. She had four.
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Season 4 No GIF by The Office


Don't do that. Don't ever do that.
 
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chrissaran said:
ACL tears in women recur all the time. Ask Shea. She had four.
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While repeat ACL injuries can occur, over the past 20 years sports medicine has gotten much better at preventing them. Advanced microsurgery has reduced post-surgical trauma. Improved rehabilitation and training procedures have accelerated recovery and dramatically limited recurring injuries.
 
CocoHusky said:
:eek: Maybe be we should combine this wet blanked thread with the one that is predicting there will not be enough minutes to go around. Unbelievable! Caroline's ACL was from May 2017!
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Exactly my reaction. And kudos to all these young women who work so hard to get themselves ready for a very stressful game. Perhaps the human body wasn't made to do some of the physical gyrations we see in every contest (and practice). Pushing to the limit brings risk, but still they persevere. Gotta love 'em.
 
This is why discussions of playing time is moot. A large factor in playing time will be player's health at any given time in the season.
 
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Bald Huskie said:
Wow, I'm really scared now. Maybe we should see if Autumn is available to come back just in case we run out of capable players.
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and "Dr. Autumn", besides serving as acting Head Coach during timeouts, holding Geno's clipboard, she can serve as student medical assistant, helping with "all these numerous and troublesome" injuries. ;)
 
This is a big reason why you want a stacked team so there are options. People get hurt.

I really wish we had better depth more recently when KLS and Danger had their issues. I have to think they ended up playing more than they really should have which extended the injuries.

I feel like the staff are really using the stacked roster right now to really get folks healthy and take care of any issues immediately and not let them get worse.
 
Heytherego said:
Also Mir was on crutches last video I saw. She has some tendinitis I believe
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You are correct. According to Coach Geno, "McLean has also been limited during workouts while dealing with tendinitis. Mir’s had some tendinitis that she’s had forever so she’s got to go at some pace,” Auriemma said.
 
Fairfield Fan said:
The list of serious injuries that UConn women are dealing with seems pretty long.

Piath Gabriel- intestinal surgery, still recovering
Saylor Poffenbarger- stress fracture in vertebrae. Decided against surgery
Paige Bueckers- surgery on ankle, hasn't fully recovered
Nika Muhl-ankle injury incurred early in the NCAA tournament. Yet to fully recover
Caroline Ducharme- previous injuries include torn labrum, ACL tear
Azzi Fudd- sprained her foot and wore walking boot through April. Follows ACL and MCL tears in high school

Not sure if I've missed any...? Hoping all recover completely and quickly.
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better to be recovering now rather than in March
 
oldude said:
While repeat ACL injuries can occur, over the past 20 years sports medicine has gotten much better at preventing them. Advanced microsurgery has reduced post-surgical trauma. Improved rehabilitation and training procedures have accelerated recovery and dramatically limited recurring injuries.
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Some progress but not enough. A study done 8 years ago showed that 30% of first time ACLR patients ( male and female but majority female in the control group) had a recurrent tear within 2 years of returning to athletic activity. Another study showed a recurrence rate in women at 6.5 times the normal rate. Another study showed that a woman is 3.5 times more likely to tear her ACL a first time while playing basketball than a man. There are several theories for this gender imbalance, anatomical, hormonal, neuromuscular etc but no definitive reason. It's still a nightmare for athletes in stop and go, sudden deceleration, jump stop sports like basketball. There is an emphasis now on training but until medicine gives us the "why" we won't be able to effectively give our girls playing sports the "here's how not".

My daughter did it 3 times, twice in basketball and once in lacrosse. I saw first hand the pain and struggles involved in difficult and tedious rehab processes. Any player who comes back from that injury( it's usually a 2 year window to approach pre-injury status) has my attention and respect.

I will be rooting my you know what off for Azzi and Caroline this year. That kind of trial and tribulation creates character and fearlessness, and although I have only seen videos, highlights and clips, I think they both have it.

As for our other walking wounded, I expect they will all grow from their own experiences. Adversity does one of two things. You either give in to it and it overcomes you or you fight and overcome it. The latter is the usual UCONN way, I would politely venture to say.
 
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