Calf Injuries recovery time

[celticinorlando]

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[CoachBo]

It's the calf. Grande just tweeted it.

Pretty clearly a calf from the knot in the clip at about 20 seconds on the front page.

[Chief]

I'd assume lower leg meant Achilles rupture. 

Two things:  The Achilles isn't a muscle, and if he ruptured the tendon, there's no way he'd be walking.  I don't think that's it.

Good point!!!
rupture

[GreenFaith1819]

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Great way to celebrate your 10,000th!

Congrats!

[GreenEnvy]

Hopefully it's nothing major. Even if that means missing January, I'm OK with that.

As long as by March we can get the whole team out there healthy, building chemistry and cohesion.

Give me this squad at full strength, and I will take on any team, anywhere.


Rondo (no getting around his absence) is due back Friday, West in a few weeks probably (although Daniels and Wafer have been playing pretty well to minimize losing West), and then Perk (we miss his defense/rebounding with JO virtually non-existent and Shaq limited) sometime around the ASB.

As long as KG has a minor injury and it is not to his knee (we DON'T want him doubting his knee in any way), we will be fine.

Pierce and Ray need to watch their backs because the injury bug seems to be taking no prisoners. Let's hope this bad luck for the Celtics ends when the calender turns, as 2010 was rough on the C's.

[guava_wrench]

Can anyone find any direct quote from the celtics saying this is a calf injury?  This is speculation by the CSN guys based on a misunderstanding of the C's vague statement that KG had a "lower leg injury".

I hate it when teams say things like "It's a lower leg injury".  I'm not a doctor, but I was pretty sure it wasn't in his neck. I kind of had it figured for "lower leg".  If you don't have something useful to say just say "We checked him head to toe and we're not telling you what it is because we're incompetent and can't figure it out or we just don't want to tell you". 

Incompetent? The doctors can't see through flesh. If you think every Doctor is incompetent because there are times that none can give a sure diagnosis, then the real problem is the impossible to meet standard.

They need imaging to know what it actually is. Symptoms can be ambiguous. What is funny is there are other fans who will complain like crazy when a mis-diagnosis is delivered to the public.

Haven't people watched House?  

I think fans also need to realize that medical records are private. Be happy we get any info. His doctor is not going to come on TV to explain his injury unless KG asks him to, and we know how private KG is. We have to settle for hearsay at the moment. If people don't like that, then watch Top Chef reruns.

[enousl]

Hey guys long time lurker first time poster. Hopefully it is a calf muscle strain. Worse case it is a tear.  I do know a little about these. I tore my calf muscle about a year and a half ago. I was simply running to a spot on the court and I felt a pop.  I needed a cast and crutches for about 4 weeks. After the cast was off my knee started to swell up for about 5 days. Anyway long story short 2 months to the day I was back on the court playing basketball.

[GranTur]

Hey guys long time lurker first time poster. Hopefully it is a calf muscle strain. Worse case it is a tear.  I do know a little about these. I tore my calf muscle about a year and a half ago. I was simply running to a spot on the court and I felt a pop.  I needed a cast and crutches for about 4 weeks. After the cast was off my knee started to swell up for about 5 days. Anyway long story short 2 months to the day I was back on the court playing basketball.

2 months to get back on the court and I'm sure you weren't close to 100%. And that's for a casual basketball player, not a near-7 footer going up for a power dunk.

Scary...

Worst case is actually a torn ligament though. Let's hope it's minor.

[Bahku]

Just watched the replay of him walking off the court, and he was barely limping ... I seriously doubt it was a torn muscle or any kind of ligament/soft tissue injury. Looked like a minor pulled muscle, and the recovery time would be a few days at most. I'll be shocked if it's anything worse.

[Yugocelt]

The guy over at the Pistons Blog said KG tanked it and "faked" the injury because of his stale performance prior.  I don't buy that but I also don't think its a bad injury.  Probably a minor muscle pull or calf injury.

[barefacedmonk]

The guy over at the Pistons Blog said KG tanked it and "faked" the injury because of his stale performance prior.  I don't buy that but I also don't think its a bad injury.  Probably a minor muscle pull or calf injury.

Don't read what they say....defective Pistons...their manufacturer's warranty expired a few years ago.

[j804]

Just watched the replay of him walking off the court, and he was barely limping ... I seriously doubt it was a torn muscle or any kind of ligament/soft tissue injury. Looked like a minor pulled muscle, and the recovery time would be a few days at most. I'll be shocked if it's anything worse.

Bahku - you never fail to put things I perspective and just always bring that down to earth calming effect with your posts. Got to love the optimism.