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Air cast on the lower leg. Didn’t look good. Real shame, I love that kid so much.
Get well soon Deejay!!
Get well soon Deejay!!
This is upsetting a fire burns in Deejays heart.Hopefully it’s just a broken bone. Great Cane.
Exactly...a bone will heal much faster than those ligaments,tendons and muscled involved in a grade 3 sprain....here’s hoping for a speedy recovery for one of my favorite Canes ever one that came to us via Ga.A clean break of the bone is better than a grade 3 sprain. I had a grade 3 sprain when I was in my early 20s and it never healed right.
A clean break of the bone is better than a grade 3 sprain. I had a grade 3 sprain when I was in my early 20s and it never healed right.
Couple doctors I follow on Twitter (I know...try not to laugh. But I promise you these guys are legit) have basically said the same. If it's a true Grade 3, sometimes surgery is actually necessary. So while we're usually trained to think sprain > break, that's not always the case. Let's hope he doesn't need surgery and recovers quickly. I think it goes without saying he'll be out for the year.
You know your ORTHOPEDICS my friend. My father is an ORTHOPEDICS SURGEON and said the same thing.A clean break of the bone is better than a grade 3 sprain. I had a grade 3 sprain when I was in my early 20s and it never healed right.
You know your ORTHOPEDICS my friend. My father is an ORTHOPEDICS SURGEON and said the same thing.
Totally understand, with your maladies and your unfortunate misfortunes. My ankles and knees are shot from playing junior hockey. Still feeling the affects. Just hang IN there.I've broken my left thumb; broken, dislocated, and separated my right shoulder; broken fingers, and broken a couple toes- none of them hurt near as bad as when I got a grade 3 sprain of my ankle with partially torn ligaments. I've never had a gunshot wound, but I imagine it must feel about the same as when your foot does a 270. I was doing a 3 mile run in the Marines with a fully loaded rucksack through the woods and my right foot got wedged between two tree roots as I was sprinting down hill. About every three or four years after that initial sprain, I'd be walking around and step on a pebble or something insignificant and my ankle would totally give out and I'd be back on crutches again for weeks. Once those ligaments are torn/stretched they don't really go back to normal (same with my shoulder separation, but it's easier to avoid reinjury there). The gimpy ankle also led to degenerative arthritis and what I call "crunchy ankle"- you could hear the grinding when I moved my foot. About 15 years after the initial injury, I planned on having full invasive ankle surgery (I think they were going to put in cadaver parts). I decided to try the PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) injections as a last ditch effort to avoid surgery- the orthopedic surgeon said it was usually less than 50% successful but it was worth a try. Getting a needle jabbed into your ankle bones isn't fun, but it actually worked. With a bone break, the bone actually heals stronger because of the calcium build up in the broken area. So unfortunately I think DJ's grade 3 sprain is really bad news but maybe he will be one of the few lucky ones whose ligaments return to normal.
Sometimes bad sprains can take a long time to heal. When I tore an ankle ligament in college they told me that sometimes fractures healed faster because some ligaments have a poorer blood supply. That was a long time ago; maybe today’s treatments are better.Great to hear only a sprain