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rustyOfOz said:
terrible news, hope he recovers strongly.
It made me ponder pre-season training and the build up to the season proper. Should you work the players very hard or ease them into it? I believe I read that one team has adopted a low impact training regime at least in the early stages. Anyway, I hope we don't see any more of these types of injuries.
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ACL's are really a thorn in the side of the competition. In often innocuous looking circumstances they can force player's out of the game for entire season's and can even grind career's to a halt.

Maybe the AFL should be doing more to fund medical research into better treatments that may allow players to have less recovery time from these injuries.
 
horrible luck, hope it's nothing too serious. Kid deserves a chance to live his dream and show the footy world his skills.
 
Cmarsh said:
ACL's are really a thorn in the side of the competition. In often innocuous looking circumstances they can force player's out of the game for entire season's and can even grind career's to a halt.

Maybe the AFL should be doing more to fund medical research into better treatments that may allow players to have less recovery time from these injuries.
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I've always wondered why AFL clubs don't get their players' knees MRI'ed on a regular basis as standard procedure. There's obviously a reason they don't.

That said, I'm sure the Dockers were watching Mora's knee like a hawk and were doing everything possible.
 
Vision doesn't look too bad except for his reaction. From the reaction alone it looks like something goes snap.
 
UpTheGuts said:
Ahhh, dreadful news.

Wonder if he'd do LARS if it is an ACL
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I would suspect that this would be the case considering the traditional methods haven't seemed to work. Also, I read that his first reco was a botch job on the part of the surgeon.
 

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Marlin01 said:
I've always wondered why AFL clubs don't get their players' knees MRI'ed on a regular basis as standard procedure. There's obviously a reason they don't.

That said, I'm sure the Dockers were watching Mora's knee like a hawk and were doing everything possible.
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Why would you want an MRI of a healthy knee?
 
OK I have NFI about this stuff, but he looks to actually break into a "relatively" normal stride at the end of that clip. Would he be able to do that if he did an ACL ???


Otherwise it doesn't look great, he just couldn't out his full weight onto his knee to change direction, and crumples because of it :(
 
juzzo said:
Why would you want an MRI of a healthy knee?
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I'll stand corrected by those that know more than me, but with an ACL like LeCras' last season, where he has no history of knee problems prior, a simple turning motion tore his ACL. Does this not mean that the ligament was already suffering wear and tear and the final twisting motion was the final straw? Could they not have detected that the knee was already 60% (or whatever) damaged? I don't know, as I said in my previous post, there's obviously a reason they don't do it.
 
coryne said:
OK I have NFI about this stuff, but he looks to actually break into a "relatively" normal stride at the end of that clip. Would he be able to do that if he did an ACL ???


Otherwise it doesn't look great, he just couldn't out his full weight onto his knee to change direction, and crumples because of it :(
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Yes. Happens alot.
 

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Did Morabito have knee problems before he was drafted? If not, it really makes a mockery of the worries about Menzel. Afterall, if this can happen to just a normal kid, it can happen to anyone.
 
Marlin01 said:
I'll stand corrected by those that know more than me, but with an ACL like LeCras' last season, where he has no history of knee problems prior, a simple turning motion tore his ACL. Does this not mean that the ligament was already suffering wear and tear and the final twisting motion was the final straw? Could they not have detected that the knee was already 60% (or whatever) damaged? I don't know, as I said in my previous post, there's obviously a reason they don't do it.
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Don't think it has anything to do with "wear and tear" in young athletes, moreso in much older people. In athletes its usually just an awkward and forceful snapping movement of the knee usually towards the back.
 
Marlin01 said:
I'll stand corrected by those that know more than me, but with an ACL like LeCras' last season, where he has no history of knee problems prior, a simple turning motion tore his ACL. Does this not mean that the ligament was already suffering wear and tear and the final twisting motion was the final straw? Could they not have detected that the knee was already 60% (or whatever) damaged? I don't know, as I said in my previous post, there's obviously a reason they don't do it.
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Can only see that working for over-use injuries like stress fractures. I wouldn't think an MRI would pick up any warning signs for acute injuries such as ligament or muscle tears.
 

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