All the physicians involved in this have said his pain can get worse ... but the condition won't, ... It's not like he's going to have a career-ending problem to his abdomen or groin and everything that happens is correctable with the surgery. So, to a point, yes, the pain may get worse. But he may be able to deal with the pain better, too, as we do more rehab and treatment.

All the physicians involved in this have said his pain can get worse, it may get better, but the condition won't. It's not like he's going to have a career-ending problem to his abdomen or groin and everything that happens is correctable with the surgery. So, to a point, yes, the pain may get worse, he may be able to deal with the pain better too as we do more rehab and treatment.

I just think it was just a freak thing. He fell on it and it just ruptured.

That's probably not a great term because there is no hernia. It's a condition where you have a lower abdominal strain and it becomes chronic, to a point where you start to have groin pains.

Everybody has agreed that it is now at the point where it can be classified as a sports hernia. It's a condition where you have a lower abdominal strain, and the lower abdominal strain becomes chronic to the point where you start to have groin pain.

It's almost 12 feet high. They had to be that big, because the gasoline had to be delivered by gravity after it was pumped up to the top. That was back before electricity.

They're something that you can play with. It is uncomfortable. Rest does not correct the problem. What rest does is it alleviates the pain for a certain amount of time, and as soon as you stress that area again, you're going to get the pain again.

After he looked at the tendon, he made a decision that Correll would not heal well enough to play this season without further surgery. He just thinks it was a freak thing. (Buckhalter) just hit that knee right on the same spot.

Eventually, he'll be OK. It just takes a little bit longer to rehab. ... If Correll wants to play again, we're going to rehab him to play again.

You have a lower abdominal strain and it becomes chronic, to the point where you start to have groin pains, ... At some point in that whole process, you treat the abdominal strain, until you decide it has become chronic and then you can classify it as a sports hernia.