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2015: Recruiting News, Notes & Official Visitors

'Tini said:
Why were there 40 more women in that study than men?
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On a more serious note it is because female athletes are much more prevalent to suffering ACL tears than males. This is due to the angle at which the ACL passes through the notch in the femur due to the relative hip/knee position and that notch being generally smaller in size than in males.
 
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AeroBuff99 said:
On a more serious note it is because female athletes are much more prevalent to suffering ACL tears than males. This is due to the angle at which the ACL passes through the notch in the femur due to the relative hip/knee position and that notch being generally smaller in size than in males.
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What was odd was that they are 2 times more likely to injure the opposite knee. Can you expose one leg more by overprotecting the reconstruction one?
 
zbuff said:
What was odd was that they are 2 times more likely to injure the opposite knee. Can you expose one leg more by overprotecting the reconstruction one?
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Yes. I heard of one (maybe more?) doc that, for their female patients who played soccer, basketball or skied, would put braces on both of the girls' knees after repairing the first injury just to try and prevent the matching injury.
 
zbuff said:
What was odd was that they are 2 times more likely to injure the opposite knee. Can you expose one leg more by overprotecting the reconstruction one?
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My immediate hypothesis was that people with that injury were in fact more genetically predisposed/more vulnerable to that kind of injury in the first place.
 
zbuff said:
What was odd was that they are 2 times more likely to injure the opposite knee. Can you expose one leg more by overprotecting the reconstruction one?
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skibum said:
Yes. I heard of one (maybe more?) doc that, for their female patients who played soccer, basketball or skied, would put braces on both of the girls' knees after repairing the first injury just to try and prevent the matching injury.
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gone native said:
My immediate hypothesis was that people with that injury were in fact more genetically predisposed/more vulnerable to that kind of injury in the first place.
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Probably a combination of things.

Genetic, compensation, and return to activity on a weakened limb all can contribute.
 
buffaholic said:
The implication that Lindsay and Crowders past ACL tears are suggestive of further injury problems has no scientific basis.

But I also would like to see 2 RBs added. We lost Abron and Payne to grades and Adkins will be a JR already, so we really, really need to get 2 in here.
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Why? Just one position on the field.
 
buffaholic said:
Any chance your search stumbled upon studies showing the opposite. In the male population? After accounting for social reasons such as activities? On phone but I have researched this before
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I wasn't trying to argue your side, but wondered what the pointy heads had to say countering your assertion. The study I linked seemed to be from a good source, so I stopped there.

There doesn't seem to be agreement among orthopedic docs. As with many research topics, it's not hard to find studies suggesting that lack of consensus with ACL tears. It was easy enough to find a reputable looking study backing what you said: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17452511, but without having a PhD tear the studies apart, you can either take them at face value, assume they're crappy and tendentious for some reason, or wipe your ass with them.

I don't know, and it really doesn't matter to me. We need backs in this class regardless of the health of our current backs - but if the recruits happen to believe ACL injuries to other backs improve their lot, roll with it.
 
Duff Man said:
But it's not a valuable position, based on your posts in the past.
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I said 1 position on the field out of 22 plus Special Teams does not warrant a dedicated RB coach.

It does however warrant having healthy bodies who can play the position.

Keep twisting everything I said. Better yet, I'll just stfu. You win.
 
DBT said:
Plus, he could really sell the "roughing the kicker" thing.
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Yeah, I used to think that those soccer guys "flopped" needlessly from a little contact all the time, UNTIL I played in "for fun" parents/sons scrimmage against a competitive level U12 boys team.

One shot to the shins or ankle from even a 12 yr., old who can kick a ball 50 yds., and you'd drop like a rock too! And it really stings, but only for a moment or two. Gave me mucho respect for a guy who, with only small shin guards, faces an opponent who can kick a soccer ball 70 yds. at 50 MPH and whack your shin or ankle or calf with similar force while trying to get the ball away from you......

Not that there isn't an issue with drama in some instances (just like in B-Ball) but much of what Americans call "flopping", is simply reaction to that momentary, intense, searing pain from a sharp blow to an unpadded---artificially or naturally--- body part.
 
DBT said:
I blew my ACL in the early 90's and have never blown it again. SO THERE!
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That must've been some recovery considering the medical care back then.

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Maybe it is a grayshirt offer. This kind of reminds me of Mac offering Gillam at SJSU. That was a grayshirt opportunity that in the end worked well for us.
 
Well we don't get many guys from Tennessee, Webb was I think. I wanna say Cortlen was too but I think that's not right, maybe it was St. Louis?
 
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