Doctors will use MRIs and CAT scans to determine what approach they'll have to take for the broken tibia.
The Arsenal star had surgery after fracturing the fibula and tibia in a challenge with Stoke City's Ryan Shawcross last weekend.
"Where his cartilage was taken, he now has bruising on top of his tibia, " boss Paul Simpson told BBC Radio Shropshire.
She then suffered a hairline fracture of her tibia just two days before the marathon at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
Basketball players are prone to stress fractures in the tibia, the larger of these two bones, and that can weaken them, he said.
His condition, patellar tendinitis, can be described as inflammation of the tendon that attaches the quadriceps (thigh muscle) to the tibia (shin bone).
"You can see in her right knee, especially on the medial side, she has no space left between her femur and her tibia, " he said.
The injury was a fractured tibia, Louisville trainer Fred Hina said.
Kaplan -- who also is not involved in Ware's care -- said it's also possible Ware had a benign bone tumor that weakened the tibia before his fall.
The Boston team investigated whether there was an association between the development of cataracts and lead levels in two bones - the tibia (shin bone) and the patella (kneecap).
Former Louisville running back Michael Bush broke his right leg in two places during a football game in 2006 and had surgery the following day to repair his tibia.
The researchers found that men with the highest tibia lead level were 2.7 times more likely to develop a cataract than those who recorded the lowest level of lead in this bone.
Ramsey underwent surgery to fix fractures to his tibia and fibula in his right leg after the challenge by Shawcross, who was sent off for the challenge and left the field in tears.
In a two-hour surgery, Ware's broken tibia was straightened and a rod was inserted into it, according to a statement from Kenneth Klein, senior associate athletic director for media relations at the university.
In a two-hour surgery, his bone was reset and a rod inserted into his tibia, according to a statement from Kenneth Klein, senior associate athletic director for media relations at the University of Louisville.
The time will allow the MCL ligament and tibia break to heal on its own, depending on its severity, according to Dr. Jeffrey Webb, a professor of orthopaedics and sports medicine specialist at the Emory Sports Medicine Center.
That, combined with the constant pounding Ware endured through an entire season of basketball, may have created small stress fractures in the tibia and fibula bones in his lower leg, causing his bone to snap when he took a bad step.
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Dr. Reed Estes, assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and team physician for the UAB football team, said Ware's injury "looks like a pretty bad break to both his tibia and fibula, " the two long bones in the lower leg.
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