Corum was cleared to play in 2nd Half . . . nothing structurally wrong with knee
November 19th, 2022 at 7:53 PM ^
PRAISE GOD! GO BLUE!
November 19th, 2022 at 7:59 PM ^
Into the hyperbaric chamber. Take your homework, young man, and see you next Saturday.
In the end zone!
November 19th, 2022 at 8:57 PM ^
Sorry, but he doesn't have an indication for HBOT.
November 19th, 2022 at 10:28 PM ^
As though 3/4 of the patients we stuff in our chambers have real, evidence -based indications..
November 20th, 2022 at 12:12 AM ^
There's lots of reasonable evidence in the UHMS Indications Manual.
November 20th, 2022 at 12:00 PM ^
Read the primary literature. Outside of CO poisoning and decompression, the evidence is terrible. Especially for wound healing, orthopedic stuff, etc.
November 20th, 2022 at 1:13 PM ^
Are you familiar with the UHMS and the HBO Indications Manual? The whole point is to treat only indications that have reasonable evidence; the Manual exhaustively discusses and cites the best known literature with level-of-evidence based recommendations. Granted, it's not all Level 1, but much of medicine isn't.
November 20th, 2022 at 6:32 PM ^
Yes--I know one or two of the authors personally. Hyperbarics research is great, but the evidence supporting HBOT efficacy for much of how it is applied clinically is suspect in my opinion.
Edited to avoid doxxing myself too much.
November 19th, 2022 at 7:59 PM ^
I'm hoping Blake is fine but this language from JH was a bit unsettling:
"They have to go back in and we'll see where it is tomorrow, how it feels tomorrow," Harbaugh said.
Serious athletes play with pain and minor injuries all the time. We needed Blake big time in the second half. Fingers crossed that it was a temporary setback and he will be his amazing self next Saturday.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:01 PM ^
Hopefully just him screwing with Day.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:12 PM ^
I wouldn't read too much into it. Harbaugh sometime can be very stubborn. It seems like he didn't want to risk BC's health. According to other threads, there were other starters who were available if needed. Yet, in the critical 4th quarter, none of them played. Harbaugh does have ice in his veins, probably from coaching/playing in NFL where close games are a norm.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:32 PM ^
He probably also recognized that winning next week would earn us the division title no matter what happened to us today.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:48 PM ^
Losing today would have sucked. But I'd gladly take the loss if it gave us a better chance to win next Saturday.
November 19th, 2022 at 9:36 PM ^
I do think the 12-team playoff will be more fit to Harbaugh's mentality than the 4-team format. He's got that NFL thing in his DNA where he's focused on having a good team rather than an undefeated team, which I think moves from disadvantage to advantage if the playoff goes to 12.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:16 PM ^
Harbaugh is going to be as clear as mud with injury updates this week. Spoiler alert — he is playing.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:17 PM ^
I work with critically I'll trauma patients for a living and see a ton of orthopedic trauma. Sure an X-ray tells you there's nothing structurally wrong with bones but I'd feel a hell of a lot better giving him the green light to play after seeing the MRI they will do tomorrow
November 19th, 2022 at 9:56 PM ^
This 100%.
An xray will reveal bone fractures or injuries.
They definitely do not reveal any tendon or ligament/meniscus damage. The trainers did a manual Lachman's test on Corum, obviously this was a negative test but the manual method definitely isn't 100% reliable.
MRI is diagnostic test #2, which is beyond protocol for exact injuries like this.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:00 PM ^
OSU doesn’t have their top two RBs either. Wish we had a commanding passing attack to fall back on like them.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:01 PM ^
Seems reasonable to expect Edwards to play in seven days.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:11 PM ^
They have no run game even with their starters
November 19th, 2022 at 8:15 PM ^
Yeah, you didn’t watch their game today, the 3rd stringer is still a dude
November 19th, 2022 at 8:24 PM ^
Did not like seeing that. Yeah, it was MD - and play a lot with 8 DBs. But that freshman looked better than either Henderson or Williams have all year.
November 20th, 2022 at 8:41 AM ^
Hayden is actually their 4th-stringer (after Henderson, Williams and Evan Pryor, who was lost to injury before the season).
November 19th, 2022 at 8:07 PM ^
So far, so good. Fingers crossed.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:13 PM ^
Even if we lost this one everything was still on the table next week. At least that's what I'm thinking to convince myself BC will be full-go in six and a half days.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:14 PM ^
Evaluated further = MRI which will actually indicate something other than “broken/unbroken” time will tell
November 19th, 2022 at 8:27 PM ^
On the bright side, Blake didn’t test positive on an anterior drawer or Lachman test or that would be an ACL guaranteed
Let’s hope those tests are sensitive in this case.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:18 PM ^
ET, WE NEED YOU!!
November 19th, 2022 at 8:26 PM ^
It definitely didn't look bad from a structural perspective live. So I think we can be cautiously optimistic.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:33 PM ^
Yeah because it’s normal for him to drop the ball mid-play while clutching his knee before he even reached the ground. What is wrong with you people?
November 19th, 2022 at 8:44 PM ^
Nobody is saying it didn’t hurt, jackass.
in fact, I once banged my knee on my desk and dropped my coffee. I am normally a warrior but that’s how bad it hurt . . .
November 19th, 2022 at 9:13 PM ^
It’s different because you’re an out of shape keyboard warrior and an anonymous internet tough guy, so what I really want to know how resilient you were when you banged your head on the desk bending over to pick up your “I’m the best” coffee mug pieces.
But I’m sure you can judge internal biomechanics on sight just like the poster, because you’ve got amazing bounce back from desk injuries .
November 19th, 2022 at 9:20 PM ^
You can’t tell that I am joking?
November 19th, 2022 at 10:20 PM ^
Thanks for being a dipshit
November 19th, 2022 at 11:36 PM ^
The irony of your first sentence made me laugh
November 19th, 2022 at 10:46 PM ^
But what were the MRI results ?
November 19th, 2022 at 9:56 PM ^
It hurts when you bang your knee!
November 19th, 2022 at 10:12 PM ^
I think what he's saying is that his knee didn't seem to bend in an awkward direction the way they tend to do when a ligament is torn.
It looked to me like he took a shot squarely on the kneecap, which can hurt like hell but doesn't necessarily mean ligament damage.
November 19th, 2022 at 9:42 PM ^
It might have scared him which added to the situation.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:33 PM ^
Harbaugh said in the post game radio interview Blake's knee was evaluated at half time, and thought it best not to let the knee bruise get any worse after the one play in second half. Even a deep knee bruise could be a problem. Cautiously optimistic here too. Let's just hope Blake recovers and he an Donovan are ready to go next Saturday with everyone else including Trevor, Mike, and Luke.
November 19th, 2022 at 8:41 PM ^
He got the Mr. Miyagi treatment.
November 19th, 2022 at 9:10 PM ^
Trending well, but not in the clear yet. And let’s be frank - best case is that he’s likely on a gimp leg and no where near 100% next week.
November 20th, 2022 at 8:51 AM ^
That’s a little overly pessimistic. Chase Brown had to be helped off a week ago; how’’d he look Saturday?
Not saying Corum will definitely be fine, but the range of outcomes probably goes beyond “nowhere near 100%.”
November 19th, 2022 at 9:33 PM ^
Had a similar injury (not that we know what it is exactly), but it was a knee bruise like they are saying. I will say it was painful, I had to lift my leg into my car by grabbing my pants and lifting it, it also swelled when I tried to jog on it. I was ready a week later at about 95%. Hopefully it is something similar
November 19th, 2022 at 9:53 PM ^
thanks … figured that but nice to see a real life update
November 20th, 2022 at 1:40 AM ^
75% is better than RB3 or RB4.
He may be in rough shape tomorrow but much better by Friday. Illinois RB couldn’t put weight on his leg a week ago and he damn near ran for 150.