injuryupdate
22-05-2005, 02:54 PM
Details on this injury (sustained playing NSWRL first division with the Tigers) have appeared in the Telegraph. Apparently he has had severe compartment syndrome and has needed 10 operations over the course of a month, the last one including skin grafts.
Sounds like a shocker of a compartment syndrome, and one which will end his rugby league career on the spot (although he should walk OK again). No tibialis anterior = unable to run fast enough to play professional sport.
This is a similar injury to that suffered by Jamie Lawson when playing for the Swans about 10 years ago, and he never played again.
Another victim of this terrible complication was ex-St Kilda player Dean Greig, playing local Aussie Rules after his AFL career ended. His foot and ankle needed amputation after all the operations he went through.
Not enough research has been done on ways to prevent catastrophic complications of compartment syndrome after fractured tibia. It seems to occur in somewhere between 1-5% of cases.
Sounds like a shocker of a compartment syndrome, and one which will end his rugby league career on the spot (although he should walk OK again). No tibialis anterior = unable to run fast enough to play professional sport.
This is a similar injury to that suffered by Jamie Lawson when playing for the Swans about 10 years ago, and he never played again.
Another victim of this terrible complication was ex-St Kilda player Dean Greig, playing local Aussie Rules after his AFL career ended. His foot and ankle needed amputation after all the operations he went through.
Not enough research has been done on ways to prevent catastrophic complications of compartment syndrome after fractured tibia. It seems to occur in somewhere between 1-5% of cases.