Of course, she is trying to keep a stiff upper lip. Can you imagine how crushed and frightened she must have been! Just a contusion it will heal with a little rehab? The bone bruise might, but the Ulna nerve is the crucial matter here. Hey, she'll probably be raining threes on Ohio State Dec.1st and you can post "See HTHUSKY74, I told you, no big deal" I'll be looking for that post from you if it happens too!
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There really is no treatment for nerve damage. Initially, the first 48 hours, they will ice it and administer anti-inflammatories to keep the swelling and inflammation down and relieve the pressure on the nerve. They will indefinitely do therapy to loosen the joint and to try to keep further degeneration and atrophy from occurring. Bottom line is, unless the nerve is being "pinched" and can be moved to a better position surgically, there really isn't any direct treatment. The nerve simply must heal by itself. It is a crap shoot (as I think you are learning) and it could be a couple of weeks, couple of months, years, never... Remember, the nerve may "heal" to a reasonable level, but it is possible, if not likely, that it will never heal 100%. If she was Hasheem Thabeet slamming down dunk shots, that probably wouldn't matter. However, being a three point shooter she may have a very long period of adjustment to develop her shot again. If you talk to other people like me who have suffered nerve damage you will see that it is a very unpredictable scenario. She's a young otherwise healthy kid who appears to have the drive and desire to do what needs to be done. I think she will maximize her abilities and make the necessary adjustments to her shot (if any), but we won't know if they will be equal to before the injury until we get to that point. She may come back in X weeks and not be effective. Not because of pain, but because her circuitry has been damaged. (That's what is weird about this, typically there is no pain). However, she might return next season and be almost as good as new. Most of it is out of her control.
From your mouth to God's ears!
I assume the rehab the rehab available to KML and Tuck will be superior to that available to normal mortals, so hoping the bounce back will be quicker than usual.
Good call. Unfortunately. Strange though, she was playing really well, so it didn't seem to bother her....at least while she was playing.
Geno stated that he wanted to see how team would react to some adversity. Well, I guess he got his wish.
I see. I wasn't sure.
So now we know science can't help. I'm just going to pray for a speedy recovery.
Be careful what you wish for...
She actually said in an interview she didn't feel any pain when playing it was just after and sometimes before that she would be aware of it.
Thanks - and while there is that slim possibility for less than 100% recovery I suspect it is similar to other nerve impingement injuries where the 'less than 100%' is usually something like occasional numbness in fingers/toes, or phantom tingling. And those types of things shouldn't affect her ability to shoot efficiently. We talk about a shooter having a 'feel' but much of that deals with the whole body alignment and not with specific nerve endings.
