11-16-2019, 10:44 AM
(11-16-2019, 01:47 AM)Whatever Wrote: Bone bruises can take up to 2 years to heal. The most lengthy recovery time for a high ankle sprain is 3 months. AJ is past 4 months now.
X-rays came back negative in AJ's, so no fractures. Post op, he was expected to a few games, not over half the season. If his prognosis was missing more than 8 games, they would have put him on IR with a return designation.
In Braham's case, he never made it back onto the practice field from his injury. AJ returns to practice, then stops practicing all together, rinse and repeat. He returned to practice on October 10th, over a month ago, and still hasn't gotten back on the field.
If you want to stick your head in the sand, go for it. Whether anybody thought Braham was milking an Injury or not has absolutely no bearing on whether AJ currently is or not. That's just a straw man you've set up to knock down. You'd think you'd learn after you died on Cordy Glenn's hill.
Braham had a bone bruise therefore his x-rays were negative, also. Until they weren’t. The team never announced Braham had a tibial plateau fracture. Braham told the media after the season was over. Point being you don’t know AJ’s diagnosis or prognosis the same way you didn’t know Braham’s.
Again, bone bruises typically heal in 1-2 months with rest only. It’s highly unusual and completely out of the norm for a bone bruise to take up to 96 weeks longer to heal than most complete fractures. The fact you’re using an atypical recovery time just indicates that injuries can and do take longer than expected to heal.
Tyler Eifert is a good example. He suffered an ankle injury in January 2016. It didn’t heal as expected with conservative treatment so he had surgery in May 2016. He didn’t make his season debut until the end of October or 5 months after surgery. I guess he was milking his injury, too?
