I was just told that Pardon broke his hand against Wake Forest and had surgery yesterday.
Anyone have confirmation?
Anyone have confirmation?
Pardon hand injury
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He definitely hurt it. In the postgame interview Collins said the medical staff would not let him return to the game. There was one shot of a woman looking at his right ring finger on the bench and him wincing in pain.
We might have been f'd anyway. If our last two 5th-year transfer centers are any indication, finding one that can contribute in major ways is pretty difficult.
I hear you, though I'd settle for one who could contribute in even a minor way. Benson, sadly, isn't close to being ready. And I love Skelly as a 4, but a full-time Big Ten center he is not. Pardon is a game-changer with his blocks and rebounding and put baks on offense, so this sucks big-time but is entirely predictable to anyone who has been rooting for this program for the last two decades.
I'm not a doctor, but I have broken a bone in one hand and dislocated a finger in the other. I recall it being about 6 weeks for the broken hand to heal up enough for me to return to contact sports. Not sure how surgery would affect that timeline, but if this news is accurate I would guess that we'll have Pardon back for most of the B1G slate.
Looks like it's wait until next year, again. First Rap, then Falzone and now Pardon, think that's to much to overcome.
Truer words were never spoken . . . . .
Well I think there is an important difference between broken bone in the hand vs in the finger, which someone above said they might have seen? Also by no means a doctor, but while 6 weeks sounds about right for a broken bone in the hand, I think it would be quite a bit less for a broken finger.
I once broke a bone in my left ring finger playing flag football (stepped on by a cleat) and I was back out there for a game 1 week later once the swelling had mostly come down. Granted that was the top joint in the finger - for a lower joint I would assume longer to set and heal. But simple finger breaks are not too bad, they heal pretty quickly. Maybe it's messy (like at the joint?) and is worse, but if he already had surgery and it's a broken finger rather this in his hand, I wouldn't be shocked if he's back out there within ~2-3 weeks.
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Yup, agreed. The ability to buddy tape a finger also helped a lot when recovering from the dislocated pinky I had.
So *if* this really did happen, and *if* it really was a finger injury on his non-shooting hand, I would guess that the net impact would not be catastrophic for the season.
We need Theo Epstein to exorcise the Curse. He's done it in Boston and Chicago. Maybe he'll look for the next big challenge, which is NU hoops.
To bring a title to the Cubs was difficult, but an NCAA bid to the Cats? Impossible.
BTW, an Iowa big man is reported to have a broken finger and will miss 3 weeks.
http://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...168383/tyler-cook-iowa-hawkeyes-broken-finger
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But if it was a break in the hand, kind of hard to rebound with one hand being a club.
If he can recover quickly, he picked the right game to break it. Only one game in the next two weeks.
Thanks this is good info. So my completely uninformed and undiagnosed guess of 2-3 weeks wasn't terribly off. I guess we'll see - hopefully it is a simple broken finger and not anything more complex or a broken bone in the hand.... And that the NU doc who did the surgery gave it 110%. Not having him for the Dayton game would be unfortunate, but it would be far more unfortunate if he's not back for conference season. Hope everything heals well Dererk.
I am far from a doctor, but I can only tell you about my personal experience. I broke a finger about 15 years ago while tubing behind a boat. As I was falling off the tube, my finger got stuck in the handle of the tube and dragged me for a short amount of time before it just snapped. I broke it so bad that I had to have surgery and six weeks of physical therapy, and it was probably 8-10 weeks before it was good to go. And to this day, I still can't even get close to straightening the finger all the way.
So, it all depends on the nature of the injury. And for the record, I still haven't seen anything confirmed anywhere, so I think we should probably just wait and see when there is some official news confirmed.
Think of the bender Theo would have to go on after getting that one done. Is Jed ready?
Again, the following is not in any way meant to comment on Pardon's injury. The most common finger injury requiring surgery is a fracture dislocation of the PIP joint(first joint in the finger). The articular surface of the middle phalanx is fractured and unless stabilized, the head of the proximal phalanx will sublux. This fracture has been problematic and rarely results in a normal functioning joint. Once early healing occurs , buddy taping may allow a return to play , especially if in the non-dominant hand.
The other common injury is the mallet fracture (drop finger, baseball finger etc) of the distal phalanx. This fracture involves the attachment of the extensor tendon and a portion of the articular surface of the distal phalanx. The bone fragment is usually very small and fixation is difficult.
Joint fractures in the finger almost always leave functional deficits
The other common injury is the mallet fracture (drop finger, baseball finger etc) of the distal phalanx. This fracture involves the attachment of the extensor tendon and a portion of the articular surface of the distal phalanx. The bone fragment is usually very small and fixation is difficult.
Joint fractures in the finger almost always leave functional deficits
Why a club? Why not a huge hand-like cast that extends his reach an extra 6 inches?
I basically sheared the first bone in my pinkie catching up a punt. By the time I bothered to have it xrayed 2 weeks later, it had fused. I now have a short pinkie, which limits my repertoire of rings.
Ash can cover for Derek for a while! No doubt! or Ben Johnson, if he still has a year left of eligibility!
Would be great if someone on WildcatReport or one of the other sites could... do some reporting.
That's the old journalism model.
The new journalism model is to throw out conjecture and then build immense commentary on that while forgetting what lit the fuse.