02-03-2020, 09:45 PM
(02-03-2020, 08:29 PM)Catmandude123 Wrote: The statement I made was that the team said it was a 6-8 week return period then all of a sudden the injury turned into a year long thing. How do you do a MRI on a injury on a 15mil/year player and then suddenly a new injury appears? What happened did I PO your alter ego?
Rich Braham injured his knee during Week 2. The team reported it was a bone bruise and he would return by the middle of the season. When the prognosis turned out to be incorrect fans bashed Braham and the doctors. But, they didn’t bash the team for releasing false information and creating unrealistic expectations. Braham had a tibial plateau fracture and was never going to return by the middle of the season. What the team told fans was completely false.
Here’s some more “crap” others call medical education regarding your MRI statement from the source I already provided . . .
Quote: However, MRI has been shown to be less reliable in detecting ligamentous deficits compared to arthroscopic assessment(26). Furthermore, MRI has also been shown to be unhelpful for determining whether operative or conservative treatment of the common SER-type ankle fractures is necessary(13).
What that means is some injuries can be missed by MRI and are not detected until during surgery. Or the extent of the damage can’t be fully appreciated until actually visualized through the arthroscope. On the flipped side, the MRI can give false negatives, or injuries that actually aren’t there. MRIs aren’t 100% specific or sensitive.
