10-03-2018, 08:02 AM
(10-02-2018, 09:13 AM)Tomkat Wrote: Anyone know what the surgery involved? Bones? Ligaments? Both?
(10-02-2018, 10:10 AM)Daddy-O Wrote: Not 100% sure but heard a doctor quoted it was similar to the Odell Beckam injury last year. According to the doctor it is an injury you can come back from. But who really knows, I'm sure all injuries are unique in their own way.
(10-02-2018, 06:58 PM)BoomerFan Wrote: Stuff heals stronger than it was before it was broken. Maybe he'll eventually be super-durable.
People used to say Matt Stafford was made of glass. He got past it.
Professional non ortho trained opinion....
after finally being able to watch the game yesterday, Eifert has a fracture dislocation of his ankle. judging by the way his ankle remained deformed he has major disruption of his ligament structure of the ankle, the fracture portion is, relatively speaking, the trivial part. Like Boomer stated, sometime bones heal back stronger.....but ligaments, unless they are replaced,....NEVER do. Unlike knee's there really isn't a way to "replace" an ankle ligment, cadaver or bovine prosthetics don't apply. Ligaments must be rearranged, usually by sacrificing a local tendon. (btw, ligaments attach bone to bone, tendons muscle to bone)
Beckham had little ligament damage...his was more of a bone injury, thus can heal back close to 100%.
Unlike knees which have a mechanism designed to bend in only on plane--flexing and extending. surgery can stiffen the collateral ligaments without replacing them so they will have a minimum of laxity. Ankle are designed to bend in two planes--flex/extend and evert/invert. If you stiffen the lateral ligaments there will a limitation of his range of motion...He will be running on a clay foot.
Tyler's ankle will never be 100%, and considering the strains imposed by a professional athlete, esp one that has he strains of pivoting and cutting and being twisted in a pile up or tackle.....His best option is to call it a career.
