11-22-2023, 09:25 AM
(11-22-2023, 08:11 AM)michaelsean Wrote: My question is what is the definition of an injury? Lots of players have hurts. If you aren’t limited then is it an injury or a hurt if it was anything at all.
Imo pain is not an injury. You can have aches and pains due to overuse but that does not mean you are injured. Nociceptive pain is injury-based pain but that's only one type of pain. For example, nerve pain due to increased neural tension (lack of your nerve's ability to stretch) is not an "injury" per se but can require treatment for symptom modulation. Every NFL player gets symptom modulation treatments (cupping, soft tissue, contrast baths, dry needling, theragun, stretching, etc) and aren't put on the injury report because of it. If you're having some pain but you're not limited in practice and are able to be a full go for a game, then why would you need to be on the report? To me, an injury implies actual structural damage that may prevent you from participating. Pain does not necessarily prevent you from participating. Like with Trey after hyperextending his knee- nothing was damaged/injured, so it was just a matter of how much pain he could tolerate in order to participate.
