players are properly equipped "physically"?

[representing]

Originally Posted by just another ref

What do you think fractured means?

more of a crack in the bone rather than fully broken.

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by representing

more of a crack in the bone rather than fully broken.

A crack in the bone means it is fractured/broken.

[representing]

Originally Posted by zm1283

A crack in the bone means it is fractured/broken.

Medically spoken, though, from what I know (and I could be wrong), doctors only say broken when it is nearly broken all the way through the bone.

When someone told me the player broke his wrist I was imagining the x-ray showing a split or near-split in a bone or two. The way he played with that hand tonight, it was probably just a hair-line fractured or something like that. No cast or brace on his wrist, just taped below the wrist and close to the elbow (two different taped locations).

(I watch too much of the Discovery Health channel evidently)

[Adam]

"Fractured" equals "broken" and it's that way every time I hear it. Now, sometimes they specify "hairline fracture," which is different than a "standard" fracture.

I wouldn't expect a middle school player to be playing with even a hairline fracture, though. If he was playing, I doubt it was fractured. Most likely, it was a sprain.

How did you hear it was "broken?" It seems they were trying to make you feel worse about it.

[representing]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

"Fractured" equals "broken" and it's that way every time I hear it. Now, sometimes they specify "hairline fracture," which is different than a "standard" fracture.

I wouldn't expect a middle school player to be playing with even a hairline fracture, though. If he was playing, I doubt it was fractured. Most likely, it was a sprain.

How did you hear it was "broken?" It seems they were trying to make you feel worse about it.

That's what my mom said (the nurse in previously post), that it couldn't have been a fracture, but most likely a sprain if everything.

[Smitty]

Originally Posted by representing

Medically spoken, though, from what I know (and I could be wrong), doctors only say broken when it is nearly broken all the way through the bone.

When someone told me the player broke his wrist I was imagining the x-ray showing a split or near-split in a bone or two. The way he played with that hand tonight, it was probably just a hair-line fractured or something like that. No cast or brace on his wrist, just taped below the wrist and close to the elbow (two different taped locations).

(I watch too much of the Discovery Health channel evidently)

The chip on your shoulder is showing again. You think you know everything about everything and when people correct you, rather than humbly listen and learn you get argumentative. I am really glad I don't have to work with you as a partner.

[representing]

Originally Posted by Smitty

The chip on your shoulder is showing again. You think you know everything about everything and when people correct you, rather than humbly listen and learn you get argumentative. I am really glad I don't have to work with you as a partner.

Ah yes, I was wrong. My mom, a nurse, called me to ask about that player and I told her what happened. She corrected me.

P.S. I will listen and learn when we talk rules and plays on an officiating site. I don't know who on here might be a doctor, nurse, or somehow related to the medical field.

[fiasco]

Originally Posted by Smitty

The chip on your shoulder is showing again. You think you know everything about everything and when people correct you, rather than humbly listen and learn you get argumentative. I am really glad I don't have to work with you as a partner.

And with the way you constantly harp on people, I'm glad I don't have to work with you as a partner, either. Sheesh.