Stoner out ?

The scaphoid is one of the smallest bones in your body. When you lift any weight the whole of that weight is transfered through the scalphoid,  which can be a tremendous amount for such a small bone, especially when you think of what some weight lifters can lift. When you brake the scaphoid you cannot even pick a pen up between your thumb and fore finger. The problem with healing a broken scaphoid is that the bone only has blood supply from one end. Hence if it is broken, then one side is not recieving blood to help it repair its self; so the healing process can be an age, particularly as there is a sparsity of muscles in this area to help buff the problem. It takes as long as it takes. Bone grafts can help but they are not guaranteed.

The problem with Stoner and his scaphoid is racing bikes for a living. All the  G force of braking and accelerating are transfered through his scaphoid,  the muscles in this area just arnt big enough to help the distribution of the forces, even though body weight and g force are  supported at some extent by the inner thighs ,it all happens through the scaphoid. Continuanly riding with a weakness in this area will only prolong his recovery, and in fact it will get worse if not left to totally recover.

He will be a huge miss If he does drop out through injury. But The way work is this year i just might apply for his ride. Shy bairns dont get noWT!! Jools

 

Roll on Qatar, but we must remember that it is a track that suits the Ducati. 

We also want more Laguna Seca type race battles this year.

 

Yes it is but maybe not on eurosport as it's delayed "live" coverage.

 

Cant' watch the BBC version. commentry makes me cringe.