12 Weeks for a Dislocation?

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This is in no way a criticism and it is coming from someone without the medical knowledge to be able to understand. I am genuinely seeking information. But I've never heard of someone missing an entire season because of a dislocation. A few weeks, sure. But how is something worse not the problem if they think he'll miss that long? I've dislocated a shoulder before (not severely) and the doctor suggested (not required) me to sit a couple of weeks. I played with a guy who dislocated fingers that bent the complete opposite way and he was in a stint for a couple of weeks and still played. Has anyone heard any more details regarding why JJ will be out so long?
 
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Captain Awesome said:
This is in no way a criticism and it is coming from someone without the medical knowledge to be able to understand. I am genuinely seeking information. But I've never heard of someone missing an entire season because of a dislocation. A few weeks, sure. But how is something worse not the problem if they think he'll miss that long? I've dislocated a shoulder before (not severely) and the doctor suggested (not required) me to sit a couple of weeks. I played with a guy who dislocated fingers that bent the complete opposite way and he was in a stint for a couple of weeks and still played. Has anyone heard any more details regarding why JJ will be out so long?
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It will require surgery, likely ligament damage.
 
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That makes sense but I hadn't heard anyone say surgery was for sure necessary and in fact heard many say it wouldn't be.
 
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The wrist has a lot of little bones. Wrist and ankle dislocations cause lots of issues with these little bones, maybe even breaks.
 
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Captain Awesome said:
This is in no way a criticism and it is coming from someone without the medical knowledge to be able to understand. I am genuinely seeking information. But I've never heard of someone missing an entire season because of a dislocation. A few weeks, sure. But how is something worse not the problem if they think he'll miss that long? I've dislocated a shoulder before (not severely) and the doctor suggested (not required) me to sit a couple of weeks. I played with a guy who dislocated fingers that bent the complete opposite way and he was in a stint for a couple of weeks and still played. Has anyone heard any more details regarding why JJ will be out so long?
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Translation; "Hey JJ, get back out on the field, snowflake!"
 
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I got a feeling JJ is going to try to cast it and play in a couple weeks if he can get a Doc to clear him. He's just that kinda guy. Just a gut feeling.

That's probably a bad decision tho.
 
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Wrap it up and move him to safety . can't catch with a cast on but he loves to hit
 
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I was a paramedic for quite some time and now I'm a 2nd year med student so I'll throw my 2 cents in there...

Dislocations of the wrist can be quite serious. LOTS of tendons, nerves, arteries and veins travel through some insanely small spaces. The small bones of the wrist make it hard to diagnose a fracture within a few days of injury due to swelling, which may mask the fracture. Some bones, particularly the scaphoid (where old timers snort the snuff off the base of their thumb), require pin placemat because they receive less blood supply than other bones and can actually die. I don't know the extent of his injury but based on his supposed recovery timeline it sounds like a significant injury....

I know we have some attending MD's on this board so please correct me if anything doesn't sound right
 
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Vols_74 said:
I got a feeling JJ is going to try to cast it and play in a couple weeks if he can get a Doc to clear him. He's just that kinda guy. Just a gut feeling.

That's probably a bad decision tho.
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Only if they move him to safety.
 
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I think they said "up to" 12 weeks. It will probably depend on how extensive the damage is then how quickly he recovers.
 
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VOL 4 Life 83 said:
I was a paramedic for quite some time and now I'm a 2nd year med student so I'll throw my 2 cents in there...

Dislocations of the wrist can be quite serious. LOTS of tendons, nerves, arteries and veins travel through some insanely small spaces. The small bones of the wrist make it hard to diagnose a fracture within a few days of injury due to swelling, which may mask the fracture. Some bones, particularly the scaphoid (where old timers snort the snuff off the base of their thumb), require pin placemat because they receive less blood supply than other bones and can actually die. I don't know the extent of his injury but based on his supposed recovery timeline it sounds like a significant injury....

I know we have some attending MD's on this board so please correct me if anything doesn't sound right
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As a practicing MD and surgeon, this is absolutely wrong- he should be able to play through any type of wrist dislocation as it is not serious.
 
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Captain Awesome said:
This is in no way a criticism and it is coming from someone without the medical knowledge to be able to understand. I am genuinely seeking information. But I've never heard of someone missing an entire season because of a dislocation. A few weeks, sure. But how is something worse not the problem if they think he'll miss that long? I've dislocated a shoulder before (not severely) and the doctor suggested (not required) me to sit a couple of weeks. I played with a guy who dislocated fingers that bent the complete opposite way and he was in a stint for a couple of weeks and still played. Has anyone heard any more details regarding why JJ will be out so long?
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There's a lot of bones that make up the wrist is possibly why. It's unfortunately a lot of little bones making it up instead of a simple "one pops back into the other" like the shoulder joint.

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If the injury involves the Humerus bone, at least there's something funny about the whole thing.
 
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BleedingButch said:
As a practicing MD and surgeon, this is absolutely wrong- he should be able to play through any type of wrist dislocation as it is not serious.
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I hope this is your surgeon sarcasm showing. I agree a simple dislocation he could be able to play through for a short time after reduced, which is why I alluded to a broke bone. Carpal or distal radius fracture, surgery, 4-8 week recovery, rehabilitation...

Not completely out of the question it would take 12 weeks to recover. Maybe the reporting on a dislocated wrist is wrong and it was more of a fracture
 
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Captain Awesome said:
This is in no way a criticism and it is coming from someone without the medical knowledge to be able to understand. I am genuinely seeking information. But I've never heard of someone missing an entire season because of a dislocation. A few weeks, sure. But how is something worse not the problem if they think he'll miss that long? I've dislocated a shoulder before (not severely) and the doctor suggested (not required) me to sit a couple of weeks. I played with a guy who dislocated fingers that bent the complete opposite way and he was in a stint for a couple of weeks and still played. Has anyone heard any more details regarding why JJ will be out so long?
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Wow! Makes perfect sense.
You should change your name to Captain Obvious.....or maybe Doctor Obvious.
 
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