More Rumors: CEH leaves practice on crutches

Alright, let's say that in the week before the OU game, his hamstring becomes not a problem. I would guess that you would hold him out from any type of practice....?
Question is, do you not start him in hopes that you won't need him that week, don't take a chance in unecessarily risking reinjury, and giving you a better chance of having him completely health (or at least healthier) for the championship game? Or do you decide you can't take a chance on losing to OU and play him from the start?
Hamstring is not like a broken bone, where once it heals, its good to go. Always a chance it could be reinjured.....

 

If he is OK, hold him out and re-evaluate as the game goes along. I suspect we will build an early lead and not need his services.

 

I guess I’m just not sure where you get the fact that a hamstring is not good to go once it heals. In fact, if the MRI showed no tear, there’s no evidence of an actual structural injury. If he feels fine, I let him go from jump because I don’t see a risk being that it’s a soft tissue issue. His brain will let him know if he’s pushing it too hard. And I would test it out beforehand to make sure that he can hold up to game movements. Again, all assuming his pain levels are low and more than tolerable.

 

Not an exact science. It is common to have it reinjured. If you don't need him... hold him out.

Hamstring injuries: Frequency, re-injury and length of recovery

by Brian Cammarota, MEd, ATC, CSCS, CES, Posted: December 3, 2013

Hamstring injuries are the most common injury in sports1 and have been shown to occur 176 times per NFL season or 5-6 per team each season.2 The most common mechanism of hamstring injury in the NFL was non-contact sprinting which caused 68.2 percent of hamstring strains. Hamstring re-injury is fairly common and has been shown to occur in approximately 16 percent of hamstring injuries.2,3

Re-injuries can occur due to a multitude of reasons, but they obviously indicate the hamstring had not healed enough to allow the athlete to return to full play.

The hamstring is composed of three muscles that begin at the hip (sit bone) and end at the knee. Two of these muscles, the semimembranosus and semitendinosus, are medial or inside of the knee and the other; the biceps femoris is lateral or on the outside of the knee. The biceps femoris muscle is the most commonly strained hamstring muscle, occurring in up to 83% of hamstring injuries,3 in part due to movement dysfunction as this muscle is overactive and very tight in many individuals. The same study by Eckstrand et al. found that allhamstring re-injuriesoccurred with the biceps femoris (outside) muscle.

This research certainly does not indicate that a re-injury cannot occur with a medial hamstring strain, but it does indicate that more caution should occur when treating a biceps femoris (outside) strain. This research study also showed that re-injuries did not take longer to return to play than initial injuries; however the re-injury does re-start the entire injury process—meaning the player will miss an extended period of time overall.

Rehabilitation following a muscle injury is not an exact science, thus some players (16 percent) will encounter a second injury.2,3 In sports medicine, the medical staff is often faced with the difficult decision of when a player can safely and quickly return to a game. If the medical staff waited for full recovery following a muscle strain, most players would not return until the following season. There are various tests available that check a player's functional strength to assist in the return to play decision. Check back for my next post looking at functional tests following hamstring injuries.

 

Emery wishes he could cut, catch, block, see holes developing and break tackles like for CEH

 

Shut up.

 

Why so bold?

 

Hell if I know. That's how it came out, and I don't know enough to change it and didn't care enough to find out....

 

I see.