00:00This is the Injury Report, presented by NYU Langone Health.
00:05Bad defense and bad ankles have been the Knicks' Achilles heel pretty much all season.
00:10So in today's Injury Report, we're talking with Dr. Bert-John Akbenar,
00:14sports orthopedic surgeon, over at NYU Langone to see if the Knicks' ankle injuries
00:19are just, I guess, a run of bad luck or something that can really affect their playoff run.
00:24Doc, thanks for hopping on with this, man.
00:26There's a lot riding on this season.
00:28There's a lot riding on these guys' ankles.
00:31Deuce McBride has missed time because of an ankle injury.
00:35But Jalen Brunson twisted his ankle a few times this season,
00:39and the latest was a non-contact injury, tripping over his own foot.
00:43I'm going to play that injury, and then we're going to kind of break that down and talk about it.
00:48Here it goes.
00:49All right, you see that there.
00:50He trips over his own foot.
00:51Then we fast-forward to Josh Hart, who had an ankle injury coming down on someone else's foot.
00:57So we'll play that, and then I'm going to ask you to break down the difference in the injuries.
01:02Here's Josh Hart here.
01:05He's got some bounce.
01:06Ah, went up for it.
01:07It's not going up.
01:08It's always coming down that hurt.
01:10So can you kind of break down these two injuries, the ankle injury for a non-contact,
01:17and then the ankle injury coming down on someone's foot?
01:20Is there a difference?
01:22So if you – first off, thanks for having me on.
01:25If you look at the videos and you replay them, you can see that the mechanism of the injury
01:30or how it happens is essentially the same, despite one being non-contact,
01:36tripping over his own foot, and the other one being he steps on someone else's foot.
01:40The foot still internally twists in, and the same ligaments and the same structures are stressed
01:48and injured and, you know, sprained at the end of the day, unfortunately.
01:53I'm sure at NYU Langone, you guys see a lot of patients or treat a lot of patients with ankle injuries.
02:01But let's say you have a patient that's not a professional athlete like Josh Hart or Jalen Brunson.
02:08How would you treat that patient with the same ankle injury?
02:13Sure.
02:14So for ankle sprains, typically the first line of treatment is non-operative, conservative measures.
02:20So we would do physical therapy and functional rehabilitation.
02:24What I often tell patients to start out is to regain the range of motion.
02:27And so I tell them to draw out the alphabet with their feet to really restore that ankle range of motion sideways,
02:35up and down and all around, and then combine it with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications.
02:41And these things typically get better for most people around six to eight weeks.
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