I actually had to deal with a fully broken right fibula (but no surgery needed since break was clean) from a football injury.
The good news is the fibula is not the weight bearing bone, the tibia is. I had to wear a protective boot for 2-3 weeks, and spent 2-3 weeks rehabbing it. If the break is near the ankle area, where the fibula connects, it will be longer to rehab. When I fully broke it near the ankle, my explosion and agility were limited when the boot came off, and my balance was a little off.
Manu prob. put too much pressure on it, to compensate for the weakness of his other ankle. And the cycle will continue since his surgery ankle will now become much stronger than this new injury.
I'm going to guess the Spurs backed off of Carter and Jefferson after getting the news that Manu should be able to return. From most reports, the Nets were willing to ship VC to the Spurs for that package containing Hill and Mason. That's a trade you discuss and work out while you wait to see if Manu is a go or not.
That's funny, since Don Harris confirmed with the Spurs that Manu wasn't going to play on the current road trip.Wasn't this the same station that yesterday said that Rasheed to Spurs was done, and that Manu was out for the year. Just saying...
Yet, the guys on the Sports Zone were asking Mr. T if Manu was going play in the Detroit game at 6:55 PM last night.
Just saying...
(This is a low blow, even for you ex-Mr Stacie Burns. Thanx for for giving me no reason to ever listen to the Ticket 760 if you are allowed to do this .)
It's a Radiological reference to an area in a scan which shows an increased uptake of injected radiotracers.
Manu was injected with radiotracers and then his bones were looked at for increased turnover.
It's not the same as soft tissue inflammation.
Last week he turned his back on Mouse and bashed him for having many screen names, then he wouldn't let him on the caller hall of fame list even though mouse called on day one and is a legend. I think Chris is losing it.
He is not half the man I thought he was.
You're right. This Manu injury wasn't blown out of proportion. Along with mentioning that 3 out of 4 of your sources were saying he might be done, you also mentioned that it wasn't a sore right ankle and that we should all PRAY, PRAY, PRAY.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the site and what you guys do but this thing took on a life of its own and very little water was poured on this to calm people down.
Did you guys have any idea that it was a possible stress fracture or stress reaction ? I come here for my Spurs fix and don't plan on going anywhere else and I really appreciate the extra information but.....perhaps you said a little too much w/o having the freedom to expand on it.
If that is true, we would have been better assuming it would be more serious. I would take my chances with a healthy Carter (minus Hill and Mason) than a banged up Manu with no guarantee he will return to form (with Hill and Mason).
At the time that thread was made, the Spurs doctors hadn't analyzed the results and that's why it was said that he MIGHT be out for the season. I repeatedly said in that thread that a) it wasn't exactly an ankle (it wasn't), b) that my hope was he'd be back in 3 weeks or so c) and that people should calm down because it wasn't for sure that he was out for the season. We knew about this for 24 hours before we posted the thread and didn't post it because we didn't want to cause panic. We didn't post it until the Yahoo article came out saying that other GMs were hearing it was a serious injury.
As far as praying, of course Spurs fans should pray that Manu's not going to be out for any period of time .. the Spurs aren't going to win much without him.
i can slowly step off the ledge now.
A healthy manu in the POs = a chance against ANY team. I'll take that right now.
Go Spurs.
From what I can tell, recovery from similar injuries varies a lot. Some players come back in a few days, some are sidelined for a few months. Hopefully the 2-3 weeks is somewhat concrete.
Still want to hear from Manu and Pop . . .
I stand corrected. Keep up the great work.
Several people in the thread mentioned it could be a stress fracture. We said we didn't know if it was. I just said what I knew - that people said it wasn't exactly an ankle injury.
Well, this is good news. At least he can be back this season.
I hope those 3 weeks will be enought
More than ever Pop need to put Bruce back in the starting 5. We'll not outscore anybody with Manu out. It's time to go back the old Spurs D to win games without Manu
I'm not sure of the medical procedure but perhaps the Spurs first thought it was a stress fracture and then further examination showed it to be a stress reaction? Unless Ludden writes an article about it we may never know . . .
But as far as I can tell, this is just about the best possible outcome considering the fears of the last 48 hours.
Looks like the praying paid off. This could have easily been season ending as playoffs are only 8 weeks away
Kori, I'm not a doctor but if it was a stress fracture I think he'd be out of the season.
Maybe the doctors thought it was a stress fracture but after further testes knew that was a stress reaction
Kori and Timvp's sources could still be right depending. If he is out six weeks, then that is pretty much the rest of the season
It's a hard decision to make about whether to post stuff or not. We often hear things about the Spurs from people in the organization before they happen. 75% of the time, we don't post about them because you never want to cause people to freak. At first when we heard that Manu might be out for the reason of the season, we didn't even think to post it because the person kept saying "likely". To me, that's not good enough to make the whole world freak out.But when the other GMs were saying it to Yahoo, timvp figured you guys would want to have a clue about it.
Hopefully the 3 week time table is close to correct. 6-8 weeks isn't going to be good enough .. the season is over in 8 weeks.
this injury is because Manu retorn from the first injury too early!
Exactly. The latest round of testing probably brought the good news.
Oh Wow I hope that it is a stress reaction only, and Ludden reporting it makes me feel better, we should be fine without Manu for 2-3 weeks! Just hold the fort!
Ginobili out two or three weeks
By Joe Alexander on Feb 19, 2009 3:49 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) Save & Share Yahoo! BuzzYahoo! Newsvine del.icio.us Facebook Google Reddit Fark
The Spurs announced Manu Ginobili is expected to be out two to three weeks.
The announcement came in an e-mail on Thursday about 3:40 p.m. San Antonio time.
The team reported Ginobili has "a stress reaction of his distal right fibula."
Ginobili missed the Spurs' first 13 games of the season after having offseason surgery on his left ankle. He sat out Tuesday's road loss in New York with what was described at the time as a lore right ankle.
Ginobili is averaging 16.1 points, 4.7 rebounds and 3.5 assists this season. He scored 30 or more points in three of his last six games.
This is Ginobili's seventh season as a Spur. He averaged 14.8 points and 3.6 assists for his career.
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...hree-week.html
Pop will talk to the media before the Pistons game. Let's see what he'll say
yeah so he can get injured again come playoffs. manus ankles are made of pudding, hes always gonna have problems...we should of got rid of him!
I don't know why everyone is so worried when a few weeks ago you all couldn't wait to trade Manu. It seems to depend if the Spurs win that night.
Spurs lose to Lakers, Manu has to go, he is a waste of a pay check. Spurs beat the NY? and your all trip over each other to be the first to toss his salad.
As far as Chris Duel goes he should check with Peter Burns to see if he was just trying to start a friendly riff between the two sports stations before he says on live radio that Peter is a piece of .
It's not like Duel has never said stuff to get a reaction before. I thought he had tougher skin. You don't see me get upset after he belittled me last week saying I was not worthy to call the show. If it wasn't for my homeboy Johnny Fingers on the show I would not listen.
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