Interesting legal sports story breaking

[happy_tiger]

An interesting legal situation will be breaking tomorrow and I wonder if this sort of thing may also occur in rugby league in the future

Luke Ball an AFL player for Collingwood in the first quarter of the game injures his knee and is sent back out by the medicos and then tears his ACL 17 minutes later

They are talking that post career he may have legal grounds to sue the medicos for sending him back out there

Just wondering what others opinions are and whether we will see the same occur with the pressure that players are under to get back on the field asap

 

[brk53y]

I snapped my acl exactly the same way. Got a knock in the back of the knee, went off and thought it was right, came back on and snapped it 2 minutes later. I wonder if it was his choice to go back on, maybe he thought he was ok?
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[happy_tiger]

I snapped my acl exactly the same way. Got a knock in the back of the knee, went off and thought it was right, came back on and snapped it 2 minutes later. I wonder if it was his choice to go back on, maybe he thought he was ok?
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Funny you mention that brk53y After I did mine it felt pretty good 10 minutes later and you can even move in a straight line pretty well Like in the AFL players situation the minute he tries to step around his opponent …

 

[Citizen_Tiger]

Clubs have a duty of care, which they've ignored for decades. Keep an eye on the Bracken case, if he's successful, RL players wont be carrying injuries into games, nor playing the weeks following a concusion

 

[Jazza]

I am not sure how true it is but apparently it can feel fine not long after initially rupturing it. My mate did his ACL and from memory he had to wait 3 months for his surgery, he seemed normal and could walk normally but any excessive exercise and the whole knee could of been destroyed.

Maybe a similar thing happened to Luke Ball.

 

[alex]

I remember something similar (not to such a huge extent as ACL) happening to Keith Galloway in a match at the SCG against the Bunnies a few years back… Went off with a problem to his foot/knee/leg, came back out and last one or two more hit ups.

 

[brk53y]

I am not sure how true it is but apparently it can feel fine not long after initially rupturing it. My mate did his ACL and from memory he had to wait 3 months for his surgery, he seemed normal and could walk normally but any excessive exercise and the whole knee could of been destroyed.

Maybe a similar thing happened to Luke Ball.

From personal experience it takes a week for the swelling to subside, then you can walk normally. I had to wait 12 months for surgery. Like you have said you can walk normally, but try to step side ways or walk on uneven ground and you end up a screaming heap on the floor. When you snap an acl you certainly know about it! As I said before when I did mine I thought it was ok, but the doc Said to me the initial blow only tore the acl, not snap it. It was the twisting and pivoting when I came back on that snapped it. Maybe this was the case with this bloke.
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