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What is Patrick Sandoval’s injury like? Sounds awful (lumbar spine stress reaction).

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Will Carroll's avatar

It depends on the location. A stress reaction is like the start of a stress fracture, so they caught it very early. If it's out on the process, it's almost not an issue aside from why is it stressed? Cam Newton played with a full lumbar process fx a couple years ago.

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Thanks! What does “out on the process” mean?

The early reports were that he could be out for the year, but it sounds like that’s more unlikely than so?

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Will Carroll's avatar

Sorry -- here's a good video on it. Depends on a lot of factors. Hope to have more on Monday: https://study.com/academy/lesson/spinous-process-function-fracture-treatment.html

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