Incoming freshman Michael Rose said an MRI scan revealed a bone bruise in his knee, and he hopes to return to full strength in a couple weeks after suffering the injury during a basketball game last weekend.
Rose said he was playing in a “rec league” game Sunday when he went up for a layup and landed awkwardly on the knee.
An initial doctor’s visit indicated no ligament tear. The MRI scan, conducted Tuesday, revealed a bone bruise, according to Rose.
Rose, a 6-foot, 230-pound linebacker out of Kansas City’s Rockhurst High School, signed with the Huskers earlier this month. He’s set to join the NU football program this summer.
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Hey Rose, just lift and run football drills buddy. We will be needing those knees healthy to allow you to run over those Big 10 teams!
Good to hear you are ok,
GBR!
How do you bruise a bone without coming into contact with another object?
“…landed awkwardly on the knee.”
Read that. That’s my point. I’ve never experienced or heard of getting a bruise from anything other than some type of trauma. Something hitting you or you hitting something.
The floor.
I recently got a bone bruise in my knee, just by awkwardly twisting my knee in a basketball game. They hurt like crazy, and take a long time to heal.
Your femur and tibia can “knock” into each other, bruising one or the other or both.
The word I meant to highlight was “on”…landed *on* the knee. But as others pointed out, I guess you don’t have to make contact to get a bone bruise.
Really??? The bb floor would be the immovable object sending a shock/force through the foot transferring the force through the tibia that impact the femur. The femur driven by his momentum and weight of his body force the bones into contact. Bone bruises are serious as they can prevent blood flow to the cartlidge which protects the bones from rubbing on one another and keep the joint protected and operating without pain from bone on bone contact. This was part of the knee injury that ended Terrell Davis’ NFL carreer. As long as there was no damage to the cartlidge and connective tissue, he should recover fine as long as the bruise is allowed to heal and blood supply is not a problem to the other tissue in the affected area.
T.D. tore both his ACL and MCL, much more than just a bruise.
Added to the ACL and MCL was a cartlidge tear compounded by the bone bruise. Lack of proper blood supply to the meniscus (sp?) kept it from healing properly. While the ligaments slowed him down, it was the lack of healing of the cartlidge due to the bone bruise that did him in. My son had the same injury and was treated by the same PT in Denver as T.D.
Great hearing he is ok! Lay down the basketball and just concentrate on your off season football workouts! GBR
My nine year old daughter hurt her shin last night playing soccer (indoor soccer). We iced it down. We did an MRI for Yori. She’s a 9 year recruit as an athlete recruit. Let’s hope she can pull through.
Don’t let her talk to Urban Meyer.
can she throw?
..hey Mike, …chill fella ….and enjoy your Senior year.
Good news on the mri Mike, get yourself healthy and ready to start knocking heads in come September. We are looking forward to seeing you play and kick some tail for Husker Nation.
GBR!