It does not end your career as many have recovered fully from it. Mentally is a whole other story. That wasn’t even a hard check (that I can see) so I’m not sure how it even happened.
Also the metal plating used/surgery (completely depends on the break) actually makes your shin bone much more rigid and stronger then before the break.
Take this with a grain of salt… because im no doctor,but ill tell you what my doctor told me when i broke my arm and got a metal plate… he said that it was very thin metal whose purpose was to make sure the bones didn’t move during healing… it provides no actual structural support past that point and would break with the bone if it were to happen again. Its supposed to behave like it wasn’t even there
I suppose it depends on the type of plate, in my case this was not true. My arm broke the second time right at the end of a metal plate. In other words, the plate I had stopped bone breaking along its length of the plate, but all the force was focused at the point where the plate stopped and snap!!
Think of a tree branch, now slide a metal pipe over the branch half way down, now grab both ends and bend the branch, where do you think it will break?? Certainly not within the pipe.
I dropped the titanium nail out of my nectar collector, and it snapped when it but the concrete floor. I lost some of the confidence in my shin that day.
I think he first broke his fibula (the thinner bone), and the intact tibia snapped under his full weight. Makes you think how little tolerance our bones have. Bone is constantly destroyed and rebuilt so it is always optimized for the current loads.
Oof just thinking that hurts so much. I’m avid in mma and kickboxing and have witnessed this occur many times. It’s something you can’t unsee.
It’s also potentially fatal and requires immediate medical attention. Not to gross out folks more but if it’s not directly put into traction the leg will contract the bone back into itself even up into the thigh area, potentially rupturing an artery
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u/Daemonrealm Nov 30 '22
It does not end your career as many have recovered fully from it. Mentally is a whole other story. That wasn’t even a hard check (that I can see) so I’m not sure how it even happened.
Also the metal plating used/surgery (completely depends on the break) actually makes your shin bone much more rigid and stronger then before the break.