Sounds like six weeks until he starts training. Should be about two months until he plays again. Minimum.
Damn, damn, damn. Well, I hope Schalke don't rush him back. Give him all the time he needs to recover as close to 100% as possible. Guess no surgery is needed?
I put the tweet from Schalke into Google Translate and it said "inner ligament". Not sure which one that means, but I'm guessing it's the MCL.
.@WMckennie hat beim Spiel #S04H96 eine Teilruptur des Innenbandes im rechten Knie erlitten. Er fällt ca. sechs Wochen aus und wird konservativ behandelt. Gute Besserung #Weston! pic.twitter.com/2Hd0Una8jH— FC Schalke 04 (@s04) January 22, 2018 Partial rupture of inner ligament, 6 weeks off, with conservative treatment
Not as bad as it was speculated to be. Unlucky play, but it's not like he's got a hamstring issue or something. He's in the hands of very smart people. Head up and keep churning!
The problem is the timing. With Goretzka leaving in the summer, this was the time for Wes to prove he could fill his shoes.
It's not the end of the world. He'll still have a month at the end of the season and he already was the first off the bench.
2 months is better than 9 months so... The only fear is that no surgery is always a worry that he may tear it again easily i.e. Ryan Tannehill.
If it is the MCL my ortho told me that is the only knee ligament that can reform / heal itself when I hurt mine. I think this means less of a risk of recurrence without surgery compared to a partially torn ACL.
http://torontosun.com/2017/08/14/to...-mcl/wcm/4d4fc826-1d25-4970-9575-a786d6ff6aab Sometimes I see a player's leg bend inward on contact and think that doesn't look natural at all. then they kind of continue playing and you wonder if they are making a small tear/sprain into a bigger one. You'd think there would be some different protocol for these types of injury where a replay will show approximately how much bend there is in the leg and the MD's would take the player off as a precaution. The substitution rules are making this kind of thing difficult.
That explains why MCL injuries tend to heal so much better. I know ACL's don't heal at all on their own due to blood flow, so essentially if you have a partial tear you just try to build up your quad and calf muscles to compensate.
The Hannover guy slipped on what looked like a divot if I remember correctly. Editing the replay down cuts that part out.
Hagglund took 10 weeks to play again, but was on the bench after eight. Same injury as Wes. That's more or less the timeline we should expect for him.