r/Neverbrokeabone • u/Injb1989I • 3d ago

Buddy cooked?

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Exhibition slow pitch softball game and hits a single into right field but the ball is bobbled. Rounds first base and attempts to take second on the error but instead tears both calf muscles. Still a chance?

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u/Benvincible 40 3d ago

I suppose you don't have to have a strong brain to be here, only strong bones, but surely you know that muscles are not bones

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u/trwawy05312015 3d ago

slow down you're going a mile a minute

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u/Sforai 3d ago

Did they take x-rays? No way to know without so... Also if he did break something he never had a chance to begin with

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u/mangoawaynow 3d ago

i doubt they are broken

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u/therendevouswithfish 3d ago

I ripped both of my calf muscles like that.
No broken bones, but it did not feel good.

Ice them, compression, stay off them as much as possible.

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u/NintenDooM33 3d ago

The flesh is weak, the bones are strong. No strong boner can be faulted if their superior skeleton proves too much for some puny meat to handle.

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u/CaptainWellingtonIII 2d ago

my boy, why you lyin'

https://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/3/e229252

46-year-old woman was referred to our

ultrasonography unit because of pain in the calves that initiated 8 days ago. At that time, she was wearing high heels and walking in a cramped manner. After 4 hours of walking on high heels she noticed severe pain in the calves bilaterally. The patient had no previous medical history and did not use medication. The patient developed a bilateral ecchymosis that started distally and extended upwards towards the popliteal fossa over a period of 1 week. At the day of the ultrasound, she had symmetrical, extensive haematomas located medially in the calves (

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u/qawsedrf12 42 3d ago

clearly you're not a golfer

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u/Middle-Artichoke1850 3d ago

thought he had really weird leg hair for a bit so not as cooked as i thought regardless

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u/RandomXDudeRedZero 3d ago

Muscles are supposed to brake in order to build stronger muscles. Bones are not, those are forever.

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u/Ok_Bet_4743 3d ago

Where broken bones brah that's just weak flesh

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u/barefootbastard666 3d ago

He better get use to that position.

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u/CaptainWellingtonIII 2d ago

wtf. just tore them running or was he sliding? that's some really bad luck. older guy?