Discounts may include holiday promotions, tax exemption for non-profit organizations, sales and gift card promotions. ![]() What type of discounts does offer its customers? The online checkout engine at automatically adds the free shipping discount to your cart, and all you need to do is select FedEx Ground from the options list to get your free delivery. Every Fracture order over $100 comes with free shipping.In addition, there are usually lots of flat-rate discount codes available, and these can also be a good way to save $5-$10 off future orders. Fracture occasionally releases sitewide coupon codes for 10-30% off all prints.Pro members get a 15% discount on every order, and all you need to join is a copy of your tax identification form. If you are a professional photographer, then consider joining the Fracture Pro Discount Program.Join the "Fracture For Business" program to get 15% off any order over $1,000.Fracture also offers lots of discounts for Father's Day and other major holidays. Save 40% off the regular price of a storewide gift card at Fracture's annual Mother's Day Celebration Sale.Newsletter subscribers at Fracture get regular discount offers, holiday specials, and access to special bulk discounts. Get 10% off your first Fracture print by subscribing to the company's customer newsletter.Outliers like Adrian Peterson not withstanding, it usually takes two years for an athlete to recover from a major ligament injury, if at at all. ![]() Soft tissue injuries can take much longer to heal than fractures, and frequently do not produce a perfect recovery, with ongoing instability of the knee. In fact, many feel that a tibia fracture is potentially less devastating to an athlete’s career than a ligament injury, such as an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) or Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) tear. While Paul George will certainly miss the 2014-2015 basketball season, hopefully we will be able to return to a very high level of play. Of course, it takes much longer to complete the rehabilitation, with recovery of his range of motion, and strength. Without other complications, these fractures can heal solidly in four to six months. Fortunately, that is not usually the case. The gruesomeness of the images leads one to believe that these must be career-ending injuries. While this is a relatively rare injury, many of you will also recall Louisville Cardinal Basketball star Kevin Ware’s almost identical injury last April, during the NCAA March madness Midwest Regional Final. ![]() (note: these are not Paul George’s actual x-rays) To further stabilize the fracture, he probably also inserted additional screws above and below the break, right through the bone and the rod. Therefore, his surgeon made an incision just below the knee, made a small hole in the bone at the top of the tibia, and inserted a rod about the size of your little finger, the whole length of the tibia. The tibia is a very strong bone, but only the outside of the bone is strong the inside of our bones, where the marrow is, is actually quite soft. His surgery included cleaning the leg wounds, and then his surgeon inserted a titanium rod into the tibia. This increases the risk of infection, compared to a closed fracture. An open fracture means the bones penetrated the skin, and were exposed to the outside air. Paul sustained an open (also called compound) fracture of both his tibia and his fibula, and had emergent surgery to fix this. While I’m sure few people were actually watching the USA Basketball intrasquad scrimmage game live last week, many of you undoubtedly have now seen the horrific video footage of Indiana Pacers forward Paul George jam his foot into the base of the backboard stanchion, causing his tibia, or lower leg bone to snap and bend at a 90 degree angle. Paul George’s tibia fracture shows us a very rare, but devastating basketball injury. WARNING: This post contains VERY GRAPHIC IMAGES, please be advised
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