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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: Cincydawg on November 17, 2019, 06:46:46 PM
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I was reading a bit about hip injuries on line of the sort he may have experienced. I removed the wife's surgical bandage today and she has about a 10 inch incision, so I'm more than normally interested, and I think Tua by all accounts is a very fine young man. It seems possible he will miss the 2020 season entirely. Obviously, I hope for a full recovery. I know Nick Chubb had a "career ender" knee injury, and look at him now.
I watched the replays about 50 times as they showed it over and over, I couldn't really see contact leading to injury. I can't imagine the pain of a hip dislocation. Wishing him the best possible outcome.
https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/tua-tagovailoa-injury-surgeons-expert-insight-on-dislocated-hip-status-surgery-rehab-future-outlook/ (https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/tua-tagovailoa-injury-surgeons-expert-insight-on-dislocated-hip-status-surgery-rehab-future-outlook/)
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i assume he fell knees-first in a way that he wasn't expecting so much of the weight of the defender(s) on his backside. The femur head ripped out of the joint through the rear. So if you were standing, the femur would be jammed up into the hip, but since his legs were oriented how they are when you're sitting in a chair, it sheared out behind.
There's been comparisons to Bo Jackson, obviously, which would have been okay (if I understand correctly), except that they (or he) popped it back into the joint soon after. Now, they have the sense enough to diagnose before they'd do something like that. The severed vein/artery in Jackson was just left to bleed out into his body for a time.
The medical staff was probably just limited to their era, and Dr. James Andrews surmised Jackson dislocated it because of the extraordinary force he created while running. That's all true, I'm sure, but so, too, was Jackson's reputation and toughness. He knew something was very wrong/different/unique with his injury, and didn't make it clearly known. The medical staff, as competent as they could be, still saw Jackson as a super man, as we all did.
Tua will be carefully diagnosed, studied, and fixed.