The MRI doesn’t get the kid back to football

Oct 7, 2021
11:20:59am

Medute Truly Addicted User

If you can play, you can play. If you can’t play, you can’t play. Sometimes sports medicine is that easy. The MRI doesn’t dictate whether you can play or not.

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So my kid got his knee MRI done

SJS

10/7/21 10:54am

So sorry, man. My son tore his in the spring. Still rehabbing and trying to get

Iman23

10/7/21 10:57am

Dang. How good at baseball is he relative to football?

palangi

10/7/21 10:59am

and those respective teams?

palangi

10/7/21 10:59am

More important is how much he enjoys each.

Belboz

10/7/21 11:03am

Loves both.

SJS

10/7/21 11:44am

RE: Dang. How good at baseball is he relative to football?

SJS

10/7/21 11:43am

Nice. Good luck whatever he decides. If it were my kid I'd tell him to try rehab

palangi

10/7/21 1:54pm

Sucks but giving thumbs up that he has options. Lots of kids don't

fattycoug

10/7/21 11:02am

Wait, how much football will be left at that point? Won't it be long done?

Scratch

10/7/21 11:03am

i got confused there, too. The non-weight bearing is AFTER surgery

fattycoug

10/7/21 11:04am

Oh yeah, I see now. Thanks.

Scratch

10/7/21 11:16am

Way better news than an ACL though

Medute

10/7/21 11:04am

no kidding. surprised he can't put weight on it.

Cougarclaw

10/7/21 11:12am

Heard from a family that they don't have the funds to get an MRI done

crack

10/7/21 11:05am

The MRI doesn’t get the kid back to football

Medute

10/7/21 11:20am

Of course it doesn't. But it will give a much better indication of what is going

crack

10/7/21 3:19pm

You just mentioned that he was “sitting out because of that”

Medute

10/7/21 5:23pm

Where does the family live? There are many cash only MR facilities

Littlerich

10/7/21 6:26pm

Unfortunately, we are in AZ. So that won't work.

crack

10/7/21 6:32pm

Im glad it wasnt worse!

Backcountry

10/7/21 12:59pm

Same. I was pretty nervous.

SJS

10/7/21 1:38pm

How big is the tear? Lateral or medial?

Littlerich

10/7/21 6:27pm

Medial I'm embarrassed to say that I didn't ask how big

SJS

10/7/21 7:34pm

not that the tear size matters all that much, was just wondering if it was a

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