Armando Allen question

[KPENN]

Has anyone heard or know if it's true that he has a degenerative bone disease??

 

[phork]

By all accounts it was 2 torn hip flexors.

 

[irish1958]

A torn hip flexor, especially of the psoas, is very difficult to diagnose and often missed for a very long time or never diagnosed at all.

 

[KPENN]

I ask cause I had seen that his football career was over because of it. I had never heard anything about that being the injury

 

[AdmiralBackhand]

His college career is done. He was invited to the combine last I checked. Unless there is something new on the wire.

 

[BGIF]

My understanding goes with phork and Irish1958. Hip flexors on both sides that "old" injuries prehaps going back to HS. I'm not aware of bone disease. Google search didn't turn up a story on him with that condition.


Notre Dame Fighting Irish running back Armando Allen had surgery on his hip that will finish his season. - ESPN Chicago

Armando Allen's season overEmail Print Comments8 By Wes Morgan
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Nov 42010
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- Notre Dame senior running back Armando Allen's college career appears to be over.

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Allen had surgery to repair a hip flexor Thursday morning in Tennessee, coach Brian Kelly said at his news conference later in the day. Recovery from the first of what appears to be two necessary operations is expected to take between "three and four months."

"[Allen] had only one of the hips repaired," Kelly said during his only meeting with reporters during the Irish's bye week. "He's going to have to have another one. There was a lot of things in there that showed that maybe this was an injury he's had for many, many years." ...

 

[BGIF]

His college career is done. He was invited to the combine last I checked. Unless there is something new on the wire.

I think I read something before the bowls that he was hoping to able to compete at the Combine but it was doubtful he would have time to get in competitive shape that quickly.