🏈 Chapman playing with a torn ACL and meniscus for half the season is just crazy...

[Brandon Van de Graaff]

They should name a toughness award after him, cause folks, that's pretty impressive right there... And not only did he play, dude played at a high level.

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/01/josh_chapman_played_most_of_20.html

 

[JoshB]

Yeah I was literally speechless when I read that today... just insane... and not just play but play EFFECTIVELY.

 

[Duder]

Incredible that he continued playing football but I hope Cain was misquoted. If it is a full-thickness ACL tear and the person's quad muscles are well-developed they serve to lock the knee down to increase stability. It still doesn't "feel right" but you can run and such on it fairly well but performance should be weakened. The first few days are terrible. I'm more shocked that he played on the torn meniscus because of the potential for further damage. He's a warrior for sure.

For those that don't know me, I'm not entirely full of it. I work in PT and had a full thickness tear of my ACL on Labor Day 2010, MRI the week before Thanksgiving and surgery in January.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to talk to him about this Friday night. I'm interested to hear more

 

[Duder]

Yeah I was literally speechless when I read that today... just insane... and not just play but play EFFECTIVELY.

The fact that he was effective is the most surprising part

 

[TerryP]

Incredible that he continued playing football but I hope Cain was misquoted. If it is a full-thickness ACL tear and the person's quad muscles are well-developed they serve to lock the knee down to increase stability. It still doesn't "feel right" but you can run and such on it fairly well but performance should be weakened. The first few days are terrible. I'm more shocked that he played on the torn meniscus because of the potential for further damage. He's a warrior for sure.

For those that don't know me, I'm not entirely full of it. I work in PT and had a full thickness tear of my ACL on Labor Day 2010, MRI the week before Thanksgiving and surgery in January.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to talk to him about this Friday night. I'm interested to hear more

This isn't my field of expertise, at all. You have lost me a bit with a comment here.

...but I hope Cain was misquoted

This I don't get after reading his only quote in the article.

"Normally I can deal with pain pretty well, but after three days I needed an MRI," Chapman said. "Dr. (Lyle) Cain said he's never seen a guy that can have a torn ACL and still stay that stable."

:headscratch:

 

[BigAl]

Sounds just like another guy we all know that played against Tennessee with a broke leg.

 

[Duder]

Terry, I misread the quote--I just saw "stay stable" not "stay that stable" in my pre-coffee haze

 

[rick4bama]

tough as wood pecker lips!