Will Giants LB Micah McFadden need foot surgery? | The Injury Report - video Dailymotion

New York Post

Watch Will Giants LB Micah McFadden need foot surgery? | The Injury Report - New York Post on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00This is the Injury Report, presented by NYU Langone Health.

00:05Giants linebacker Michael McFadden avoided the worst-case scenario

00:09when x-rays on Sunday ruled out the initial fear of a broken leg.

00:13You guys saw the play against the commanders,

00:15but he has been ruled out for a significant amount of time.

00:18In today's Injury Report, we're talking with Dr. Daniel Kaplan,

00:22legend, the greatest sports orthopedic surgeon.

00:25Are there any alternative treatments, I guess, that are non-surgical

00:29that could have been considered?

00:31And what's the risk that surgery doesn't get him back to playing

00:35like Michael McFadden, you know?

00:38Yeah, and like you said, it's hard.

00:39He's an explosive player, and all of that explosion starts

00:42with pushing off from the foot.

00:44So if that's not working, he's not going to be the type of player he was.

00:47In terms of the types of treatments, again, it kind of depends a little bit

00:50on what the nature of his specific injury is.

00:53When we have more information, I can give you a better answer.

00:56If it's that type of high ankle sprain, you know,

00:58there are non-operative treatments.

01:00It all comes down to, like most things, stability.

01:03So if some people have that same injury,

01:06but their bones are held together by some of the other soft tissue restraints,

01:10then you can treat that non-operatively

01:12and probably come back a lot sooner, closer to like four to six weeks.

01:15But if he has the type of injury where so much of what's holding the bones together

01:20is torn that he needs surgery,

01:22then it's the type of thing where only surgery could fix that.

01:24Okay, that brings us to our next question

01:27because that is Micah McFadden, pro NFL linebacker.

01:33Again, we don't know the exact diagnosis,

01:35but if a non-pro athlete was referred to your office,

01:39the greatest surgeon in NYU Langone history,

01:42with the same situation and type of injury,

01:45how would you handle it being the legend that you are,

01:48and what advice would you give to that patient?

01:50Just letting you know I'm recording all of this

01:53and putting it on every website that's ever existed.

01:55And LinkedIn. Throw it up on LinkedIn as well.

01:59I would treat them the same.

02:00So at NYU, of course, we treat everyone like our high elite level athletes,

02:05but it really comes down to that stability.

02:07So if someone comes in with this injury and on special x-rays where we literally,

02:11it's called a stress x-ray,

02:12where you push their foot in a certain direction

02:15to see if those bones move under an x-ray.

02:17If they do move, then I would fix that,

02:21whether they're a weekend warrior or elite athlete.

02:23But if it's stable, then that's the type of thing you can treat with a boot

02:26after non-operatively.

02:28So it always comes down to the patient and the severity of the injury

02:31more so necessarily than the level that they're trying to get back to.

02:36All right.

02:37All right.

Will Giants LB Micah McFadden need foot surgery? | The Injury Report

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended