Broken hand puts Henson out of action for up to six weeks

Gavin Henson has broken a bone in his left hand, and will not play rugby for between four and six weeks. He suffered the injury during the Ospreys' victory over Harlequins in the EDF Energy Cup last weekend. Henson fractured his fourth metacarpal and has been fitted with a cast. While he will be able to continue training, he will not be considered for selection until the injury has healed naturally.

Henson suffered the injury in the 64th minute of the match, when he drove into a ruck. "It appears that an opposition boot accidentally came into contact with his hand and Gavin can clearly be seen holding his left hand as he gets back to his feet," confirmed an Ospreys statement.

"Gavin was able to complete the game, albeit in some pain, and he was checked out immediately after the final whistle by our medical team who diagnosed a suspected fracture of the fourth metacarpal in his left hand. We then secured the earliest available appointment at the Vale Clinic for him to undergo an x-ray on Monday, where our initial fears were confirmed.

"Understandably, Gavin was keen not to rule himself out and wanted to have as much time as possible to prove his fitness ahead of the weekend, but having received the opinion of a second specialist, he has accepted that he has to allow the bone healing to occur naturally. He has now had his left hand set in a lightweight cast and, whilst he will be able to continue with his fitness training, it is expected that he will be unavailable for selection for a period of four to six weeks whilst the bone heals."

Ospreys' director of rugby, Kevin Hopkins, remarked: "Both Gavin and our medical staff have worked hard in an effort to get him on the pitch against Ulster this coming Friday, but in the end we have decided that Gavin's long term well being is best served by him getting the hand properly sorted over the next few weeks. This disappointment has however been softened by the timely return of James Hook, Ian Gough and Filo Tiatia to the squad for the important double header with Ulster."

Full article: http://sport.guardian.co.uk/rugbyunion/story/0,,2223168,00.html

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Broken leg may have ended Rutledge's year

The Southland rugby team's massive task of beating Auckland this weekend just got tougher, with hooker Jason Rutledge ruled out with a broken leg.

The Stags' 25-20 win over Taranaki in New Plymouth, its first win in the 2007 Air New Zealand Cup, came at a heavy cost.

Reserve rake David Hall also has a foot injury and is a doubtful starter against Auckland, while wing Mark Wells will be on the sideline after injuring ribs.

The Stags may have to face an unbeaten Auckland with a third-string hooker, with Marist's Matt Holloway coming into the squad.

A former New Zealand under-21 player, Holloway is contracted to Southland but missed the cut for the Stags squad this season.

A gutted Rutledge said yesterday he would be out for six to eight weeks, meaning the end of his season unless Southland reaches the playoffs.

"I have had my fair share of injuries and this is another year with another one. But I have to keep my chin up. I will be out for six weeks minimum and hopefully be back for the quarter-finals," he said.

Rutledge broke the fibula, or calf bone, a long slender bone on the side of the lower leg, after a player landed on his leg when he was tackled early in the game.

"I heard a crack and tried to play on, but it kept clicking so I called it a day."

The 29-year-old, who has played close to 70 games for Southland, was keen to make his mark after being given a starting berth ahead of Hall at the weekend.

Stags co-coach David Henderson was disappointed for Rutledge, son of All Black Leicester Rutledge.

"He has done a lot of hard work leading into this season, so it's pretty hard to swallow.

"That could be his season. He's pretty dark."

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/4163415a6439.html

Town wait on Williams

Ipswich Town are still waiting to find out the full extent of the ankle injury sustained by Gavin Williams during Saturday's pre-season clash with Panathinaikos.

The 27-year-old was carried off during the second half of the game at Portman Road, amid fears that he had broken his ankle.

However, Town physio Matt Byard told the club's official website: "The X-ray showed no bone injury to Gavin's left ankle but he has ligament damage.

"The ankle is very swollen and he will have an MRI scan later this week as soon as the swelling settles down.

"The result of the MRI scan will give us a much clearer idea of what the injury is and how long he will be out for." Williams has been with Town for just under two years, but he has made only 45 appearances due to a string of injury problems.

Source: http://www.sportbox.tv/football/news/story.php?id=250651

A broken wrist won't keep this hockey player/cop down

A little thing like a wrist broken in three places isn't going to get a good hockey player down. Or a good cop, for that matter.

Greeley Police Detective Mike Prill has been a cop for 21 years, but played hockey when he was growing up in Minnesota. Naturally, when the week's Colorado Police a Fire Games rolled around into Greeley last week, Prill signed up for the two types of hockey -- ice and in-line.

It was in in-line hockey where the good and the bad happened. The team from northern Colorado won the gold medal in in-line hockey, then silver in ice hockey. And Prill came out of it with a broken wrist.

"It was the in-line championship game, and one of the other team's players cut my legs out from under me," Prill said, shaking his head. "I went down on the floor, twisting my wrist under my hockey stick.

Prill had to sit on the bench for a few minutes, but then brought himself back into the action. "I thought I'd just sprained my wrist." Later, he'd learn a bone in the wrist was broken in three places. "But I went back in, because I couldn't let the other team think they'd beaten me."

He stayed in only a few minutes, until the other team started aiming its blows toward his left wrist.

So, Prill will be in a cast for a few weeks. But his team has a gold medal. A police detective, Prill won't be on the street for awhile anyway. He has two murder trials coming up, in which he is the advising officer.

Source: http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20070805/NEWS/108040117

Injured teen recovering: Gainesville 16-year-old had surgery for a broken vertebra

After the harrowing ordeal the Hildebrant family has been through this week, even the slightest sign -- a toe wiggle in this case -- can inspire hope.

Ben Hildebrant, the 16-year-old son of Loren and Sharon Hildebrant of Gainesville, is recovering in the intensive care unit of Atlanta Medical Center after a Thursday morning surgery to repair his fractured C-5 vertebra. Ben suffered the injury in a pool accident Tuesday.

"The surgery was amazing," said his father, the pastor at Flat Creek Baptist Church in Gainesville. "It took less than an hour, and they were able to fuse the broken bone and clean everything up.

"He's in a whole lot of pain right now, which is to be expected. But before he went into surgery he was able to move a toe on his right foot, and that was one of the things we've been looking for."

Loren added that the movement was minimal, and Ben hasn't been able to duplicate it, "but it was there."

Previously, Ben, a rising junior at West Hall High School, had shown no movement in his right leg. The long-term prognosis was still unclear Thursday as officials at Atlanta Medical Center are focused on the immediate care of the injury, Loren said.

"The doctors expect him to stay in ICU for another day or two, then move down to a regular room," he said. "After that, maybe in three or four days, we'll move to Shepherd Spinal Center. They'll get into more of the long-term rehabilitation there."

Loren said his son, who played on the offensive line for the Spartans, has continued to show a positive attitude and he's hoping to be able to walk onto the football field before the season is over, even though he realizes his playing days are finished.

"It's an incredibly long road ahead of us," Loren said. "And Ben and I have been very honest with each other.

"He realizes that that part of his life is over, and now we're going to find out what the next part of his life will be. His desire is to be a preacher, and we've talked about the fact that this is going to make a strong testimony one day ... it's going to give him the ability to empathize with people that have gone through very traumatic situations in life."

Among others, Ryan Bozarth, 17, and Emily Taylor, 15, pulled Hildebrant out of the water after he suffered the injury diving into Taylor's pool. Loren Hildebrant has credited the teens with saving his son's life.

Source: http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/news/stories/20070803/localnews/188413.shtml

Kepu out with broken collar bone

Counties-Manukau prop Sekope Kepu will be out of the Air NZ Cup rugby competition for several weeks with a broken collar bone.

Counties meet Canterbury in the second round of the cup at Mt Smart Stadium on Sunday.

Kepu was helped from the field after being injured against Auckland on Saturday.

"We are waiting on further medical assessments but we expect to have him out of action for around six weeks," Counties coach Kevin coach Kevin Putt said yesterday.

Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4147433a23437.html

Wirth likely done this season

MARION – Rob Wirth hasn't called it a season, but will be out at least another four weeks after a Friday CAT scan revealed a broken bone in his wrist.

Wirth, the Southern Illinois Miners' starting catcher for most of the season, will miss between four and six weeks after getting diagnosed with a broken hamate bone.

"I'm always optimistic, and I think we will make the playoffs. I plan on, hopefully, coming back," Wirth said as he watched Traverse City take batting practice prior to Friday's game. "Right now, I'm just trying to keep my legs in shape; trying to do anything I can to stay in good baseball shape, I guess. Right now I'm just trying to soak up this bad news."

A .298 hitter, Wirth played in 52 games before taking a cut against River City Monday at Rent One Park.

Wirth said he hurt the wrist holding the bat too hard or with an awkward swing that night. He scored 30 runs, third-best on the team, and was third on the squad in RBIs (31). Today he will be fitted with a cast, where his wrist will try to heal itself as the Miners try to get back into the wild card race.

Doctors told Wirth surgery was probably not his best option, because the bone did not shift when it broke, but the prognosis did little to lessen the blow.

"It's really a three-prong hit," Miners manager Mike Pinto said. "You're losing a guy in the middle of the order, who hit four for us most of the year. You're losing a .300 hitter and a guy who knows every one of your pitchers, knows the league and calls our games.

That's a big hit."

Pinto said the wrist would be re-examined in about three weeks.

Wirth, 26, wasn't sure if he would return to his hometown of Wonder Lake or stay with the team through its final five weeks of the regular season. Should the Miners make the postseason, the first round of the playoffs would fall in the sixth week of Wirth's rehabilitation.

"I'm just going to hang around, try to help the catcher, help these guys get to the playoffs, and see what happens," Wirth said.

Source: http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2007/07/28/sports/20995141.txt

Persistent Carrier Discovers Seriously Injured Man

Plainview Carrier Russell Huber must have a detective's sense for those in trouble - and not long ago, he proved it. Huber had been off on a recent Friday and Saturday, but when he returned to work on Monday, he noticed an elderly customer had not taken in his mail from either day. "He's an older gentleman, who usually waits for me at the door," said Huber.

Huber was concerned. "I banged on the door," he said. "I waited a couple of minutes. He didn't come... so I went and delivered one of the three relays I do from that park point."

When he got back he noticed the mail still in the box. He banged on the door and went around back, hollered and - reluctantly - set off to deliver another relay. When he returned, the mail was still in the box, so he went to a neighbor's house and called 911.

The police eventually broke into the house and found the man laying at the foot of a stairway in a pool of blood, incoherent, a gash in his head. However, no one knew how to contact his relatives, but Huber remembered that he had a sister in Florida, but couldn't recall her married name. It troubled him the man might not receive treatment without a next-of-kin to approve it.

But on his way home later, he recalled the man having a brother in Las Vegas. Despite being "computer-challenged," he found him in an on-line phone directory, called and left a message.

Family from Queens contacted him the next day, having heard from the brother in Las Vegas and thanked Huber, informing him that their brother had been stabilized. They told him he had sustained numerous injuries in his fall: a broken shoulder, collar bone, and several ribs. Huber, though, downplays his role, saying, "Basically, it was observation, nothing more to it than watching."

Yet, he explains his joy when the police opened the man's door and found him. "I'm glad he was alive. It was wonderful to see him breathing!"

Source: http://www.antonnews.com/plainviewoldbethpageherald/2007/07/27/news/postal.html

Phillies lose All-Star Utley to broken bone in his hand

Phillies All-Star second baseman Chase Utley broke his right hand when he was hit by a pitch during Thursday's 7-6 loss to the Washington Nationals.

Utley was hit in the fifth inning by Washington's John Lannan, who was making his major-league debut. Utley finished the game, going 2-for-4, but X-rays afterward showed he broke his fourth metacarpal. He'll be placed on the disabled list today.

"As breaks go, it's not that bad of a break," Utley said. "It's definitely disappointing."

Utley, batting .336 with 17 homers and 82 RBI, didn't think he'd be sidelined for a month.

"I think it will be sooner than that," he said.

Utley's hand was swollen as he spoke with reporters after the game. "It's definitely sore," he said.

Source: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/SPT0401/707270351/1072/SPT

Moss Rose Injury Update

With the season yet to kick off, the Silkmen already have some injury problems in the squad.

Dave Morley has been under the knife to remove a piece of bone from his knee, whilst Jamie Tolley has also had surgery, on a ruptured wrist tendon.

Both are expected to return to action in October.

Meanwhile Andy Teague remains out after his broken leg at Stockport in November and Nick Blackman has a knee problem which will sideline him until september.

Meanwhile Terry dunfield and Matt Baker look set to continue their trial spells.

Source: http://www.macclesfield.vitalfootball.co.uk/article.asp?a=74796

Tips for Recovering from an Injury

Recovering from an injury, whether it is a work related injury, a sports injury, or just a bad fall, can be a long and difficult process, but it is important to take the steps needed to make sure that the injury does not do any permanent damage. An injury will always be a temporary setback at the time, but an injury that is not treated well or treated properly can become an ongoing problem.

The first thing to do when an injury occurs, of course, is to seek medical advice. A serious injury, such as a broken bone or serious wound, will need immediate medical attention, and this type of injury should be seen by a doctor as soon as possible. It may be necessary to visit the emergency room in the event of such a serious injury.

In this case it is essential to have the injury treated right away and to carefully follow the advice of the medical professional you see. The doctor you see will make the determination as to whether you need to be hospitalized or if you can be sent home for rehabilitation and recuperation.

If you are sent for rehabilitation it is important to follow the instructions you receive as exactly as possible. The exercises used to recover from an injury have been developed over the years, and following those exercises will help you get back to your regular routine much more quickly.

Even less serious injuries can require some serious rehabilitation, and it is again important to follow the instructions of a medical professional when recovering from such an injury. On the job injuries are among the most common, and in this case it is important to keep your employer abreast of the progress of your injury recovery. Even if the injury did not take place on the job, it is important to keep your employer informed as you go through the injury recovery and rehabilitation process. Doing so will help to protect your job as well as your health.

Recovering from a broken bone, torn cartilage, muscle sprain or other common injury is not always an easy or a fast process. As we get older, our bones seem to heal more slowly, and the possibility of a bone break or fracture often increases with age. The best way to recover from any such problem is to carefully follow the advice of your doctor, and not to try to rush the recovery too much.

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