(10-11-2021, 02:59 PM)TXBamanut Wrote: In this case, it pretty much is. The two choices are degenerative chronic injuries vs injuries that happen because of contact, breaking it's not a chronic weakness that will keep happening regardless of contact or not.
The entire point about KP's injuries were that they were all contact things, NOT because he was breaking down.
Let's not quibble about semantics.
I don't think this is semantics. I think it's about the definition of "degenerative".
A contact injury is different from a degenerative condition. But they aren't opposites. Something that is degenerative is diseased tissue that, on a cellular level, deteriorates over time. I'm not a doctor, but I believe that tissue can become degenerative because of injury. But I don't think that's ever even been discussed regarding KP, until the last couple of pages of this thread.
The reason that KP and his peeps have always emphasized that his injuries were contact injuries is because folks have been concerened that he's fragile due to his frame. If he sprained things without contact then folks would point to his stature and frame. Also, once you've had an injury, you may be more injury prone, not because the tissue has develpoped a degenerative condition, but because the repaired parts are just not as strong and structurally sound as they used to be.
Anyway, there are people here that could explain this better than I, but I think I'm on the right track. Degenerative disease in tissue is different from being injury prone due to loss of strenght or structural integrity because of prior injury.
In short.
You guys keep using that word. I don't think that word means what you think it means.
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