![]() ![]() Brazil’s run in the FIBA World Cup may have ended differently had Neymar not suffered a fractured vertebrae in his back. Sixers rookie Joel Embiid may miss the entire 2014-15 season managing a stress fracture in his foot. Indiana Pacers guard Paul George suffered an open fracture of both his tibia and fibula. The last few months the sports world has been filled with various types of fractures. Numerous other classifications exist including linear, transverse, and spiral fractures, each with their own set of complications. Bone can splinter into multiple pieces in a break known as a comminuted fracture or it can be an avulsion fracture that happens when a muscle or ligament pulls away a tiny piece of the involved bone. The break can be a greenstick fracture that occurs frequently in adolescents and involves an incomplete break similar to the snapping of a green tree branch. The injury analyst in me is constantly asking, “Well what kind of break are we talking about here? More details please!” I ask only because all bone fractures are not created equal and vary in mechanism of injury, amount of damage, and necessary treatment and intervention.Ī bone fracture can be open, in which the bone pierces the surrounding tissue, or closed and isolated to the bone. But now, years later, the saying drives me crazy for an entirely different reason. I’ve never liked the old saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones…” As a kid that was picked on growing up, I found it largely inaccurate. It was a lot bigger than that.Breaking Down Danny Woodhead’s Ankle Fracture ![]() I don’t really look at as part of my football career. But for me, it was always more about the rest of my life going forward. It felt so good to pursue this impossible thing, to chase that one more time. At that point, I’d already played a lot of football wasn’t worried about anything like a legacy. ![]() Like I said, football was the vehicle, but coming back was not so much a career accomplishment as a life thing. The crazy thing is that last fall, what it required to return to football really helped me turn a corner and got me to the point where I am now, which is really pain-free. When I put my Oofos on, I felt better and they helped me recover. They helped me go harder in my next physical therapy session and in my next workout. It helped, so it became a part of my regimen. “Last May, I was still dealing with a ton of soreness and pushing my leg harder and harder trying to get back out onto the field. Nothing’s changed on that front,” Smith says, noting he began advocating for the brand in the locker room during his days in Kansas City. I have to wear a brace for a lot of things and Oofos are part of my regimen because they’re helping me. “I really don’t have a lot of limitations. I wouldn’t go back and change anything.”Īnd where exactly is that? Fully retired from the NFL and, amazingly, living a pain-free life. Having said all that, to have done it and lived it, was such an amazing experience. As much as I was pouring into it and pursuing it, I didn’t really think it was realistic. It didn’t seem possible and the vast majority of the world was telling me that. I wouldn’t have believed you in a million years. I would’ve called you crazy if you told me I was going to come back, make the team, start six games and go 5-1 to help us win the division. “If people actually knew how bleak it looked and my mindset at times … there was no way. When I was stuck in a wheelchair or in a hospital bed and cutting off my leg was on the table, I never thought that was going to happen,” Smith says. “I’m so thankful I got to just try, let alone actually get back out on the field and play and win games. That loss was the final one of Smith’s NFL career: he went on to win his final five starts for Washington, guiding them to a division title and playoff berth despite ending the 2020 season on the sidelines due to a right calf strain. Four weeks after he made it back on an NFL field in relief of an injured Kyle Allen against the LA Rams in Week 5, the 2020 Comeback Player of the Year started a game again just three days shy of the two-year anniversary of his leg injury, completing 38 of 55 passes for 390 yards, all career highs, in a narrow defeat to the Detroit Lions. ![]()
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