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Forsch, how is it so difficult to just say nothing until you’re 100% certain what the injury is? We’re not talking about it taking a week or even a month, a few days is all it would have took. And you keep acting like this is a one time occurrence when its a trend.
A perfect comment for you’re argument. LOL if you’re gonna make a guess about an injury that is definitely what you call incompetence
No, it isn’t. I remember when I first started following sports. You’ll settle down with experience, kiddo.
I’ve screen grabbed your response and the preliminary report is its a self own. Considering you don’t know me and you’re a complete stranger your using of the term ‘kiddo’ is an insult. You and MM3 can please stop with the insults.
Okay, good. Sorry that feelers were hurt, though that is a preliminary diagnosis, subject to change after more testing. I fully admit my incompetence, though, as I am hardened after many years of watching doctors be incompetent and not nail their preliminary diagnoses.
If they say nothing, some fans will find fault with being silent. In this case they said what was known at the time and some fans are finding fault. They lose in either situation. It is a matter of which side of the fence the fan wants to find a fault that they are looking for.
Here are a few anatomy facts. Ligaments (e.g., UCL) connect bone to bone (e.g., ulna to humerus), not to muscle. The triceps extend into tendons, which connect to the shoulder blade and upper arm bones on one end and the ulna on the other end.
Triceps tears are rare and much more likely to occur with an injury in weightlifting or a fall/blow in football. UCL tears are more likely to occur with repetitive overhand motion like throwing a baseball. A UCL tear is much more likely than a a triceps tear for an athlete such as Hicks.
They two injuries rarely overlap and are often accurately diagnosed by identifying the events leading up to the injury, location of symptoms, and physical stress testing such as the valgus test — yes, prior to imaging. UCL tears generally present as pain on the inside of the elbow and triceps tears at the tip and above the elbow.
If they were going to speculate prior to imaging, then they took the road rarely traveled for some reason. It’s really hard to defend that there was not some level of amateurism involved with either the trainers, med staff, and/or public communications by leadership.
There seems to be this false narrative that the only two options were:
A. Say nothing
B. Wait 24 or 48 hours until all of the information was receivedWhat about option C:
“this is what we know right now but we can’t give you a more definite diagnosis until we do further testing.”Good grief this isn’t rocket science.
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