Details on Newman's Injury

[theogt]

This little tidbit was buried in a Spags article, so some may have missed it. I'm not sure what the difference is between an "acute injury to the plantar fascia" and "plantar fasciitis." If any of the physicians here could comment on it, it'd be great.

Let's start with my "Mr. Indispensable," Terence Newman, and I will rest my case. The Cowboys were playing without their most significant defensive player, who was left behind at The Ranch to rest his strained heal, something the doctors are calling an acute injury to the plantar fascia, but not the more serious plantar fasciitis, which are two bad words to any athlete.

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[Bob Sacamano]

from MedicineNet.com

Acute: Of abrupt onset, in reference to a disease. Acute often also connotes an illness that is of short duration, rapidly progressive, and in need of urgent care.

"Acute" is a measure of the time scale of a disease and is in contrast to "subacute" and "chronic." "Subacute" indicates longer duration or less rapid change. "Chronic" indicates indefinite duration or virtually no change.

The time scale depends on the particular disease. For example, an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) may last a week while an acute sore throat may only last a day or two.

so from what I gather, acute means that it may not last long since it was idenfitified earlier

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Thanks, Sac. But I had a pretty good idea of what "acute" means.

well I have a pretty good idea of what you should do next

 

[ThreeSportStar80]

Newman just needs the rest, we all know he's an elite athlete with all world skills...