Every single person who has split their leg like that has come out and said they thought they had shin splints but after the fact it's diagnosed as stress fractures leading to the break.
When you train low kicks hard to condition the shin bone after never having done it before, stress fractures appear. If you do not let them rest and heal all the way they never heal. It's basically really bad shin splints but the fractures are not superficial like splints they penetrate deep into the bone. Shin splints are caused by impacts on hard surfaces being too much for the shins and they get very very minor stress fractures that go in all different directions. With low kick training they inspected the break of widman and his stress fractures were all in one direction, the direction in which he had been training low kicks and check. So there is a direct link to over training of hard kicks and these stress fractures. It only take one misplaced check to start the process. It can easily be mistaken as regular shin splints. Every person I've seen with this break has said they had shin splints before it broke. But infact they were deep deep stress fractures from overtraining and not enough recovery.
I was interested to see why it kept happening and this is the Theory of a lot of experts in the field like surgeons for sport injuries etc. The forces your hips make in that low kick style is huge and easily enough to start a cycle to stress fractures. Then when fight night comes and they take the brakes off and they go all out power wise…..we see the shin finally let go from the stress fractures. It's never fun to watch but something I think should be looked into. Maybe we bring in some pads for the shins to protect them from these injuries and preventing the bone on bone contact? Doesn't need to be much just enough so it doesn't stress the shin bone to the point of failure.
Try tearing a quad tendon…
Why can't we see these gruesome injuries lol
Jared is great. Very intelligent as well
Every single person who has split their leg like that has come out and said they thought they had shin splints but after the fact it's diagnosed as stress fractures leading to the break.
When you train low kicks hard to condition the shin bone after never having done it before, stress fractures appear. If you do not let them rest and heal all the way they never heal. It's basically really bad shin splints but the fractures are not superficial like splints they penetrate deep into the bone. Shin splints are caused by impacts on hard surfaces being too much for the shins and they get very very minor stress fractures that go in all different directions. With low kick training they inspected the break of widman and his stress fractures were all in one direction, the direction in which he had been training low kicks and check. So there is a direct link to over training of hard kicks and these stress fractures. It only take one misplaced check to start the process. It can easily be mistaken as regular shin splints. Every person I've seen with this break has said they had shin splints before it broke. But infact they were deep deep stress fractures from overtraining and not enough recovery.
I was interested to see why it kept happening and this is the Theory of a lot of experts in the field like surgeons for sport injuries etc. The forces your hips make in that low kick style is huge and easily enough to start a cycle to stress fractures. Then when fight night comes and they take the brakes off and they go all out power wise…..we see the shin finally let go from the stress fractures. It's never fun to watch but something I think should be looked into. Maybe we bring in some pads for the shins to protect them from these injuries and preventing the bone on bone contact? Doesn't need to be much just enough so it doesn't stress the shin bone to the point of failure.
Just my 2 cents
UFC is barbaric, it should be outlawed. I mean whats next? Lions eating people for entertainment. Anyone who enjoys this is very sick.