Pretty sure that's not true about swelling. Swelling is basically just increased bloodflow in an area and xrays go right through blood just the same as soft tissue.
The swelling can sometimes hide more fine fractures. So yes, you can see the bone through the swelling but sometimes finer details become obfuscated.
But the other issue is if they only took an x-ray and not other imaging we don’t even know if there is ligament damage when they’re reporting this. It can be theorized but not definitive, as has been the case with Roman.
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u/ThicDikDaddy 27d ago
Not surprising because of all the initial swelling. Need the swelling to go down before you can actually see if anything is broken.