Joba Chamberlain’s ankle injury was a compound fracture, and the amount of blood he lost was life threatening. Here’s best wished for a speedy recovery.
Joba Chamberlain’s ankle injury was a compound fracture, and the amount of blood he lost was life threatening. Here’s best wished for a speedy recovery.
This post has drifted too far down the page to be noticed but: neither of those reports was true. Joba’s ankle is not fractured, and he didn’t lose a huge amount of blood.
James » According to this article, bone broke through the skin. That’s pretty much the definition of a compound fracture. Maybe this one should be called a compound dislocation.
No, the bone didn’t break. It’s only a fracture if the bone breaks. (That’s what ‘fracture’ means!)