Wow, Prust commitment is impressive but Girardi! Who here has had a hernia? I have and its very painful and I’m assuming he had it at least during the last few games of the caps series. So that means he played game five with a dislocated finger, hernia, and an ankle injury (it was gonna get x-rayed not sure what the results were)

i had a hernia…theyre all different, some are very painful and some arent at all

This. Team. Has. Balls.

  I have a fully torn labrum in my left shoulder…and depending where it is, it’s amazing he could play hockey, at all.

 The labrum is a piece of cartilage surrounding your shoulder joint that keeps it in place and allows you a wide range of motion with your arm. There are many degrees of tears. Mine was on the bottom, so I can still use my arm and have a full range of motion, but I can’t hold anything heavy with my arm stretched out. It doesn’t hurt normally, but if reach and try to move something heavy, I can feel it pop and click.

  As a hockey player, I’m going to guess any time of labrum damage puts limits on 3 important things. 1, you’re going to have trouble exerting a lot of pressure using your arms, like throwing a check and 2, your reach will be limited because as you reach more and more pressure is put on that cartilage. 3, you’ll lose some range of motion, depending on the severity of the tear. With a decent tear, as you move your arm around it will push out on that cartilage, and you can feel it popping, can hear it too.

  Surgery isn’t 100%, and the doctor said I can live with mine without repercussions as long as I remember not to do anything stupid. How Prust played hockey with even a slight tear is beyond me. I’d have his babies any day.