Comments on: Horne out with biceps tear

By: SOG knives

SOG knives — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:11:01 +0000

SOG knives…

Interesting ideas… I wonder how the Hollywood media would portray this?…

By: DanElmaleh

DanElmaleh — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:26:35 +0000

New segment on RAB: Paging DocClem

By: RobertGKramer

RobertGKramer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:01:54 +0000

Meant to thank Richocet.

By: Jamal G.

Jamal G. — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:00:01 +0000

LoL, DocClem as just become our go-to guy here at RAB when it comes to injuries. Hopefully you can have some type of analysis, whatever the depth, if you see it live and gather some info from the announcers. That was amazing man, thanks.

By: RobertGKramer

RobertGKramer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:59:57 +0000

Thank you for your insight as well!

By: RobertGKramer

RobertGKramer — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:58:58 +0000

Thank you for all of your valuable information!

By: rbizzler

rbizzler — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:50:42 +0000

PeteAbe is saying that Cash told the media that Horne would likely only miss one start. Not sure if I believe that he misses just one start, but it is good news none the less.

By: dan

dan — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:05:09 +0000

I’m still a little worried, even after reading webmd… i mean DocClem. The Yankees downplayed Ohlendorf’s back injury last year (I believe calling it a strain) and he missed like 2 months IIRC.

By: DocClem

DocClem — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:50:55 +0000

Jennings spoke with Mark Newman and clarified Horne’s injury. While Horne called it a “tear” Newman said that it’s actually just a “strain.” This is again very good news.

The term “strain” isn’t a very precise medical term. All “strains” and “muscle pulls” are actually tears in the muscle. So right now Jeter is said to have a quad strain – what it actually is, is a type 1 tear of the quad. Type 1 tears are the most minimal type. Athletes rarely use the word “tear” like Horne did – they almost always say “strain” so that was the confusion that Newman was trying to clear up.

So in everyday terms it sounds like Horne has a “pulled” or “strained” biceps muscle. The pain was so severe and went to his hands because the inflammation from the “strain” probably surrounded a nerve and irritated it.

Again great news. It definitely isn’t his biceps tendon. As Ricochet pointed out “biceps tears” often refer to the biceps tendon as the biceps muscle itself rarely outright “tears.” But both Horne and Newman were explicit in saying that the tendon is not involved. A biceps muscle strain isn’t that unusual and absolutely nothing to worry about.

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By: Ricochet

Ricochet — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:29:10 +0000

Not enough info to know what they are talking about. I hear a slight biceps tear and almost everyone in the medical field think the bicep tendon. One of them attaches to the shoulder and the other to the elbow and that would take months to come back from.

But because this is an area where players, coaches, announcers and reporters get it wrong all the time I’m not sure if thats what they are talking about.

Hopefully thats not the case and it’s actually a slight tear of the muscle, that he should be able to come back from anywhere from 10 days to a month, some people heal faster than others but as long as it’s taken care of there should be no long term problems from this injury.