Chandler is the same doctor who performed surgery on Thomas' disolcated and broken left ankle suffered during his senior year at Compton's Dominguez High School. I won't need surgery on it. Wilson said Thomas may have suffered the injury during UNLV's 31-14 victory over Arkansas in the Las Vegas Bowl on Dec. 21. This was the first time he had seen the doctor since he re-injured it. They did some tests and an MRI and found that he was starting to get a little bit of a stress fracture in there.
Normal protocol is to immobilize it and rest it so it can heal.
Wilson said the injury was different from the one Thomas had limped on during the last half of the season. Thomas severely sprained the foot in the first half of UNLV's 20-19 loss at Colorado State. It's less than a month old. A stress fracture is a progressive thing. If you kept running and jumping on it, the bone eventually would break and surgery would be an option to repair it.