DE Nick Bosa "Smaller Bear" NO POLITICS

Originally posted by okdkid:
Doctors.

spoke with Dr. Ken Jung, a consultant to the Rams who is a foot and ankle surgeon at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles, today a day after the 49ers discussed Bosa's ankle injury.

General manager John Lynch said Bosa didn't have a "full-blown" high ankle sprain, but his injury had "components" of such an injury. Kyle Shanahan said the rookie edge rusher had a "minor high ankle sprain, but there's no such thing as a minor high ankle sprain because we know those are a much bigger deal than low ones."

Confused? Fortunately, this made sense to Jung, who said low and high ankle sprains, the latter of which are more severe, aren't mutually exclusive.

"You can have components of one and the other," Jung said.

Jung, obviously, doesn't have access to Bosa's medical file, but he had an educated opinion about what could have happened to his ankle based on what the 49ers have said.

High ankle sprains involve damage to a complex of ligaments located above the ankle joint known as the syndesmosis. It stabilizes the tibia and fibula, the two bones of the lower leg.

"They could be speaking to that - maybe some of the ligaments of that syndesmosis are injured, but not all of them to the point that his ankle's unstable and it warrants surgery," Jung said.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
here's a doctor..

General manager John Lynch said Bosa didn't have a "full-blown" high ankle sprain, but his injury had "components" of such an injury. Kyle Shanahan said the rookie edge rusher had a "minor high ankle sprain, but there's no such thing as a minor high ankle sprain because we know those are a much bigger deal than low ones."

Originally posted by genus49:
Chao said Andrew Luck will be ready for week 1. Andrew Luck is going to miss the whole season.

Clearly he doesn't know what he's talking about.

Originally posted by okdkid:
So a high ankle sprain it is. Thank you for this.

Confused? Fortunately, this made sense to Jung, who said low and high ankle sprains, the latter of which are more severe, aren't mutually exclusive.
"You can have components of one and the other," Jung said.

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:
So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

Originally posted by okdkid:

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:
So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

It's a low grade high ankle sprain.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Originally posted by okdkid:

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:

So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

It's a low grade high ankle sprain.

Lets just go with a Medium ankle sprain.

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:

So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:

So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

And that my friend is where we're at lol.

Originally posted by NinerBuff:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:

So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

And that my friend is where we're at lol.

It's not reddish orange, it's orangish red... duhhh

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by okdkid:

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Yup a guy who doesn't have access to his MRI and didn't even see it actually happen can give proper timelines on a recovery....

Haha "a guy" lol

He's a doctor, elite reputation, excellent track record of accuracy and was the Chargers lead doc for years. He has zero agenda or narrative to push. Just facts.

Bosa may play week one, but he will not be 100% with that verified high ankle.

I know exactly who he is...I follow him on twitter and have listened to him on podcasts.

HE DOES NOT have access to his file/MRI something he likes to put out there all the time when discussing injuries. Again did he have Garrett missing a month, Johnson not missing any game days, or Jamaal Charles missing only a week (all with "high ankle sprains")

He can make an educated guess, which is fine. He didn't see the injury nor does he have all the info needed to make anything other than that though. That's my pt.

Originally posted by okdkid:

Originally posted by Bay2Bay9erAllday:

So, it's a low grade high ankle sprain + high grade low ankle sprain?

It's a low grade high ankle sprain.