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Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 10:42 am
It is June 16.
Bryce Harper has been hampered by a supposed bursified knee for a couple of weeks.
Troy Tulowitzki went down to a broken rib a couple of days ago.
I mention these injuries because of a conversation with my daughter. She is a former model (While true, I mostly only mention that to get your attention), who is now a registered dietician and physical therapist.
When trying to understand a players injury, she is my go-to person in the length of a players injury.
I'll describe the injury as teams state, then get her reaction without telling her the estimated time it'll take for that player to come back.
Most of the time, her estimates of time are in conjunction with the teams estimated time.
Not this time.
With the Tulo injury, she says that the broken rib is probably not the biggest of Tulo's problems. He had shown signs of soreness in that area leading up to his leaving the game and hitting the disabled list.
This signals to her that he has a lot of soft tissue damage, even before his tumble. Something that could take a longer recovery than the broken bone itself.
Her guess is 6-8 weeks. Not 4-6.
Her take on Harper is more interesting. She thinks the Nats are not beng truthful or in denial to the public.
That if it were bursitis, he would not be getting a swollen knee in working out on it.
She thinks the injury is worse than what the public knows and could not give a timetable for when Harper would really be back, due to not really knowing what the problem is.
At the same time, she has made a fun bet with me.
She thinks that even with Harper's young age and Tulo's injury history, that Tulo would be back on the field before Harper.
If she's right, I will defer to her on all future injuries. If not, I probably still will.
Just the same, it'll be interesting to see if she's correct.
Bryce Harper has been hampered by a supposed bursified knee for a couple of weeks.
Troy Tulowitzki went down to a broken rib a couple of days ago.
I mention these injuries because of a conversation with my daughter. She is a former model (While true, I mostly only mention that to get your attention), who is now a registered dietician and physical therapist.
When trying to understand a players injury, she is my go-to person in the length of a players injury.
I'll describe the injury as teams state, then get her reaction without telling her the estimated time it'll take for that player to come back.
Most of the time, her estimates of time are in conjunction with the teams estimated time.
Not this time.
With the Tulo injury, she says that the broken rib is probably not the biggest of Tulo's problems. He had shown signs of soreness in that area leading up to his leaving the game and hitting the disabled list.
This signals to her that he has a lot of soft tissue damage, even before his tumble. Something that could take a longer recovery than the broken bone itself.
Her guess is 6-8 weeks. Not 4-6.
Her take on Harper is more interesting. She thinks the Nats are not beng truthful or in denial to the public.
That if it were bursitis, he would not be getting a swollen knee in working out on it.
She thinks the injury is worse than what the public knows and could not give a timetable for when Harper would really be back, due to not really knowing what the problem is.
At the same time, she has made a fun bet with me.
She thinks that even with Harper's young age and Tulo's injury history, that Tulo would be back on the field before Harper.
If she's right, I will defer to her on all future injuries. If not, I probably still will.
Just the same, it'll be interesting to see if she's correct.