Ruffin injured, Danny Adams to start tonight

[BradleyBrave]

What I am hearing now is that it was a tweak in practice yesterday and that now it may be a game-time decision. Certainly better than missing 4 games or whatever I initially heard, but something to keep an eye on. In a perfect world we can take control early tonight and give Daniel some rest.

[Da Coach]

I am breathing easier already.

[BradleyBrave]

I am breathing easier already.

I'm no official source of any of this, but I think BU Nation can breathe a small sigh of relief...at least right now. It doesn't sound serious, if anything.

[BradleyBrave]

Hold your breath again...Danny Adams is starting tonight.

[BUBraves06]

Hold your breath again...Danny Adams is starting tonight.

That sux, hopefully D Ruff is back a.s.a.p.

[MacabreMob]

I think if it is even a minor tweek, this may be a good idea. Best to rest the 'tweek' and get better in a week, instead of trying to play through it, make it worse, then have to miss 4-6 weeks.

[Roll with the Funches]

Anything to the groin can be very hard to overcome. Randle at Illinois had a minor injury to his groin, sat out for a couple weeks, then played in their opening game just in the first half and ended up tweaking it again, now he's "week to week". Hopefully Ruffin's injury is not similar to that, where it starts to feel fine then suddenly gets tweaked and retweaked.

The only small bit of good would be that it'd be better for BU to have this happen to a guard than a big, and it's still early too.

[Bravesfan]

Hold your breath again...Danny Adams is starting tonight.

Still not that big a deal for now. Les can do this since they are playing a D2 at home, though I can see SIUE giving Bradley a little trouble early on. They are an excellent D2 team, so we can't let our guard down. Still, I think we will be okay without Ruffin. Let's hope he gets well soon.

[BradleyBrave]

Mild tear of the secondary hip flexor muscle for Ruffin. Out tonight, Sunday in the air.

Personally, I will be suprised if he plays before the Chicago Tournament, or even in the tournament.

Could be worse....could be better.

http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/sma/sma_iliopsoa_sma.htm

[BradleyBrave]

Bradley reacted and came out the way they needed to in DR's absence. I have a feeling it's going to be a somewhat lengthy one, so BU will need efforts like tonight's without the sloppy 2nd half play.

[BUBraves06]

Bradley reacted and came out the way they needed to in DR's absence. I have a feeling it's going to be a somewhat lengthy one, so BU will need efforts like tonight's without the sloppy 2nd half play.

Danny played the way he's always played here, with everything he's got. While it sux that D Ruff is out, Danny really picked up the slack tonight. It may not show in the stats, but Danny did all the "little things" tonight to help us get the win.

[MacabreMob]

Mild tear of the secondary hip flexor muscle for Ruffin.

Great work on the visual aide.

Just wondering, of the 3 muscles pointed at in the diagram, which one is the "secondary"?

[dogsrus]

Mild tear of the secondary hip flexor muscle for Ruffin.

Great work on the visual aide.

Just wondering, of the 3 muscles pointed at in the diagram, which one is the "secondary"?

Most muscles have primary and secondary actions. The muscle shown in the pic is NOT a secondary hip flexor...its a primary.



The long muscle in the photo is the sartorious a long but weak muscle...its the only easily identifiable muscle from this picture.....the muscle that shows the tear could be the iliacus, psoas major often called the Iliopsoas (MAJOR hip flexor) because of the common insertion point and action, which is, as I stated, hip flexion.

These muscles aren't usually refered to as "secondary" when it comes to hip flexion. Secondary hip flexors are Quads, adductors.

It COULD be a psoas minor but MOST people don't even have one of those.

If they are saying its a secondary muscle he obviously had an MRI and they "dumb it down" by not lisiting the actual muscle torn (which could be just a few fibers) and are just calling it secondary.

To me, this is a GOOD thing because they are basically saying the muscle torn is NOT the major hip flexor and that it just assists in that action.

Without a cut-a-way photo its difficult from the pic. to tell just what muscle is in the diagram since the amny muscles overlap each other.

The picture gives you an idea of approx. the region but really doesn't clearly identify "secondary' hip flexors.

[BradleyBrave]

Mild tear of the secondary hip flexor muscle for Ruffin.

Great work on the visual aide.

Just wondering, of the 3 muscles pointed at in the diagram, which one is the "secondary"?

Must muscles have primary and secondary actions. The muscle shown in the pic is NOT a secondary hip flexor...its a primary.



The long muscle in the photo is the sartorious a long but weak muscle...its the only easily identifiable from this picture.....the muscle that shows the tear could be the iliacus, psoas major often called the Iliopsoas (MAJOR hip flexor) becaue of the common insertion point and action, which is, as I stated, hip flexion.

These muscles aren't usually refered to as "secondary" when it comes to hip flexion. Secondary hip flexors are Quads, adductors.

It COULD be a psoas minor but MOST people don't even have one of those.

If they are saying its a secondary muscle he obviously had an MRI and they "dumb it down" by not lisiting the actual muscle torn (which could be just a few fibers) and just calling it secondary.

To me, this is a GOOD thing because they are basically saying the muscle torn is NOT the major hip flexor and that it just assists in that action.

Without a cut-a-way photo its difficult from the pic. to tell just what muscle is in the diagram since the muscles overlap each other.

The picture gives you an idea of approx. the region but really doesn't clearly identify "secondary' hip flexors.

Good explanation dogs. I think that probably is what supports the 'day-to-day' status. I guess at this point I am curious to hear of others (preferably athletes) who have had this injury, their recovery times, and likelihood of lingering effects/reinjury. Any doctors in the house?

[OrangeandBlack74]

Good explanation dogs. I think that probably is what supports the 'day-to-day' status. I guess at this point I am curious to hear of others (preferably athletes) who have had this injury, their recovery times, and likelihood of lingering effects/reinjury. Any doctors in the house?

Not only are there doctors in the house, they're moderators on this board!!