Lousivlle Player Leg Injury

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you cannot engineer the human body.

Actually you can.

Terwski wrote:

You do not understand proprioception, or you would understand that basketball players are typically masters of it.

Reread my post idiot. I said it seemed as if he completely lacked any spatial awareness WHEN he was landing. Basketball players have excellent overall hand eye coordination but that does not equal good proprioception.

ESPECIALLY when they literally have good hand eye coordination... key word HAND. It's not like they have the coordination with their feet like soccer players do. In fact, they have terrible coordination of the feet due to all the bracing.

Pre is my favorite wrote:

Most horrific thing I've ever seen.

I guess you've never been in an ER, eh?

body master wrote:

Terwski wrote:

You do not understand proprioception, or you would understand that basketball players are typically masters of it.

Reread my post idiot. I said it seemed as if he completely lacked any spatial awareness WHEN he was landing. Basketball players have excellent overall hand eye coordination but that does not equal good proprioception.

ESPECIALLY when they literally have good hand eye coordination... key word HAND. It's not like they have the coordination with their feet like soccer players do. In fact, they have terrible coordination of the feet due to all the bracing.

People, if you don't feed the troll he will die.

Terwski wrote:

You do not understand proprioception, or you would understand that basketball players are typically masters of it.

body master wrote:

Reread my post idiot. I said it seemed as if he completely lacked any spatial awareness WHEN he was landing. Basketball players have excellent overall hand eye coordination but that does not equal good proprioception.

ESPECIALLY when they literally have good hand eye coordination... key word HAND. It's not like they have the coordination with their feet like soccer players do. In fact, they have terrible coordination of the feet due to all the bracing.

I guess you've never watched a basketball game. If you had, you would notice the unparalleled athletic movement of the players; lateral cuts, lay ups, reverse dunks, etc.. No other sport exhibits the the effects of high-level proprioception like basketball.

Pre is my favorite wrote:

Most horrific thing I've ever seen.

Llewellyn Starks's was worse.

Reminiscent of Joe Theisman's break.

This was just little Ware and tear

I won this troll war.

The reason Kareem didnt wear hitop shoes was because he would rather tear up and ankle than a knee. He was correct.

i won't link it, but you can find a video of an an old MMA fight that's worse. the guy snapped his shin on the other guy's shin but didn't know it and stepped back on it and the leg just folds like rubber with a stick in it. absolutely disgusting.

That rings a bell. I think I've seen that. Nasty!

body master wrote:

Terwski wrote:

You do not understand proprioception, or you would understand that basketball players are typically masters of it.

Reread my post idiot. I said it seemed as if he completely lacked any spatial awareness WHEN he was landing. Basketball players have excellent overall hand eye coordination but that does not equal good proprioception.

ESPECIALLY when they literally have good hand eye coordination... key word HAND. It's not like they have the coordination with their feet like soccer players do. In fact, they have terrible coordination of the feet due to all the bracing.

When you are in over your head you should stop digging and drop the shovel.

Please, no trolls.

NJ Posible wrote:

i won't link it, but you can find a video of an an old MMA fight that's worse.

I will. You can actually hear the bones snapping in the video.

The last 3 of these MMA fights are all the same types of fractures (1 includes the above scene). Dudes kicking someone & the tibia/fibula just snaps & the guy doesn't realize it & steps to put weight down & just folds.

I also broke my leg in a similar way to the basketball player and MMA fighter about 15 years ago-a compound fracture right in the middle of my left shin. I ran into another fielder while sprinting to catch a fly ball in a baseball game. Both of my lower leg bones fractured, lower leg bent, and the tibia came through the front of my leg. I was wearing long socks, so I couldn't see the goriest details. Thinking about seeing my leg in that condition still makes me a bit sick to my stomach.

Here's the good news (at least in my experience). The injury can look worse than it really is. Hopefully, it is the same for the UL basketball player. The recovery and therapy is not fun, but it was good for my character. And there was a positive outcome. In my case, the bone was set during surgery without any hardware. It healed completely, and I was able to play contact sports again without any precautions in about one year. It hasn't caused me trouble since. I've trained 80+ mile weeks and run several marathons without issue.

That's incredible. Wow, just thinking about your injury gives me the heebie jeebies.

Interestingly, when you read about proprioception impairment, steroids are mentioned as a possible contributing factor.

Impairment (Wiki)

It has been seen that temporary loss or impairment of proprioception may happen periodically during growth, mostly during adolescence. Growth that might also influence this would be large increases or drops in bodyweight/size due to fluctuations of fat (liposuction, rapid fat loss or gain) and/or muscle content (bodybuilding, anabolic steroids, catabolisis/starvation). It can also occur in those that gain new levels of flexibility, stretching, and contortion. A limb's being in a new range of motion never experienced (or at least, not for a long time since youth perhaps) can disrupt one's sense of location of that limb. Possible experiences include suddenly feeling that feet or legs are missing from one's mental self-image; needing to look down at one's limbs to be sure they are still there; and falling down while walking, especially when attention is focused upon something other than the act of walking.

Also, this is not the first time a similar injury has happened to a Louisville Bball player (Edgar Sosa).

http://www.sportsgrid.com/ncaa-basketball/former-louisville-guard-edgar-sosa-breaks-leg-in-fiba-americas-tournament-warning-disturbing-video/

The worst part of the injury is not him breaking it but it dangling there. I have seen the MMA fighter and when he steps back on it that is the point that makes you sick.