00:00J.J. McCarthy suffered what's called a hip pointer after taking a hard hit against the
00:04Eagles. What happens inside the body when it occurs and how serious can this type of
00:08injury be?
00:09A hip pointer is basically a bruise of the front of what's called your pelvis or your
00:14iliac wing. So usually that's when people take a shot from a helmet or something like
00:18that or a knee pad right in that area. So you can kind of think of it for all intents
00:22and purposes as like the worst bruise of your life. What it really is is around our bones,
00:27bones are covered by something called periosteum. It just means some of the soft tissue around
00:31it. And even if the bone doesn't break, the tissue around it can be injured and bleed and
00:37cause pain. So that's really at its heart what a hip pointer is, contusion or hit to some
00:41of that soft tissue around the bone.
00:44One of the biggest factors here is turnaround. McCarthy suffered this injury on Sunday and
00:49is preparing to play just four days later against Washington. How much does that shortened
00:53recovery window matter with a hip pointer?
00:55The normal timeline, like if you were to look up online, it's probably like one to
00:59three weeks, probably closer to the one week side, but typically longer than four days.
01:04You know, he's got a short week. We're unlucky with that with the Thursday night game is doable
01:08because the injury is safe. It's really a player comfort and pain thing. So it's not that he won't
01:14be able to physically do some of those things, but he has less time for that inflammation and blood to
01:18go down. He will be in more pain than if he was able to give it a few more days
01:22to cool off.
01:23So what the body is doing is it's helping dissipate or reduce the amount of inflammation
01:27and some of even that blood in that area. That way he can get back to feeling the way he
01:31would.
01:32A few more days would be, let's say, advantageous, but if he feels up to it and he has a
01:36great
01:37medical staff that feel like he's up to it, then I'm sure he is.
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