2024-2025 Blues Multi-Purpose Thread.

[BlueMed]

Physically peak, that means about as healthy and in as good of shape as you can get. It's most definitely going to have an effect on recovery time. Muscle recovery especially.

Physically peak referring to cardiovascular fitness measured by VO2 max, physical strength, or body fat percentage? I'm not aware of any evidence that any of those metrics have been shown to improve recovery time of lower extremity fractures. Do you have any studies on this?

 

[Xerloris]

Physically peak referring to cardiovascular fitness measured by VO2 max, physical strength, or body fat percentage? I'm not aware of any evidence (and I highly doubt) that any of those metrics have been shown to improve recovery time of lower extremity fractures. Do you have any studies on this?

Are you only reading like 3 or 4 words of what I say?

 

[BlueMed]

Are you only reading like 3 or 4 words of what I say?

"Healthy" and "as good shape as you can get" are actually quite vague, which is why I asked what you meant specifically. There is no single metric or variable that defines what "healthy" or "good shape" means.

 

[ChicagoBlues]

"Healthy" and "as good shape as you can get" are actually quite vague, which is why I asked what you meant specifically. There is no single metric or variable that defines what "healthy" or "good shape" means.

I understand what Xerloris is saying, but I'm in my mid-50s and run circles around most 25 year olds.

A great attitude and lots of laughing go a long way.

 

[BlueMed]

There are lots of injuries deemed 'ankle fractures' that are much less serious than breaking your tibia and fibula. Jack Roslovic returned 6 weeks and 4 days after fracturing his ankle last season. I agree with you that most ankle fractures take much longer than 6 weeks to return to action. 6 weeks is very much optimistic given what we know and my guess is that we are talking about 8+ weeks.

But we don't know any of the details about his specific injury and there are scenarios where it was minor enough that he "only" has to stay off it for 4 weeks and then can begin strengthening the surrounding muscles while putting weight on it. We don't know whether it requires a surgery. 6 weeks in a boot/cast is pretty much the minimum following a surgery, but a small fracture that doesn't require surgery doesn't carry the same timelines.

My gut tells me that we probably don't see him until after Christmas, but the Blues have been cagey about using the term "will be re-evaluated in X time" for the last few years. Given how many times we've seen Blues returning right at the initial timeline, it appears that the Blues use that term to refer to the time they believe the player could be cleared to play.

Ankle fractures typically take between 6-12 weeks, so Roslovic coming back at 6 weeks doesn't mean he didn't have a breakage of his tibia/fibula. Recovery time usually depends on the size and extent of the breakage. It may have been a very mild one.