There is never long term risk of injury to a player that is currently injured. Healthcare practitioners that tell you that are just selling their services. MD after a name is just a sham.
No one knows your ailment better than yourself. I self diagnosed myself with diabetic neuropathy. The reason I knew this was because I felt numbness in my toes and occasional sharp shooting pain there. I cut my toe accidentally on a sharp rock while gardening outside and used triple antibiotic ointment and cleaned the wound. After a few weeks, the wound had changed color and smelled pretty bad. Did I let that stop me? Hell naw! I kept working my schedule shifts and rubbed dirt on it to show the toes who was boss of my body. A week later I woke up in the emergency room a little dazed and my coworkers surrounding my hospital bed. They said I passed out, so they called 911. The doctors removed all my toes in order to "save my life." Then this really nerdy doc in a white jacket (who looks like he has never played sports in his life) tells me that I need to make better lifestyle choices if I don't want more amputations (diet, medication and other. Whatever guy, I'm the boss of my body. And when my candle burns out, I know I will have won the debate of who gets to decide stuff for me...