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Repost @chrisweidman ••• This is a followup $Repost @chrisweidman ••• This is a followup to the gruesome leg fracture suffered by UFC fighter Chris Weidman last Saturday night, I wanted to walk you through his x-rays that he made public (IMPORTANT***, because it’s his private health info not ours until then) on his social media.⠀Slide 1 • Both bones (the larger tibia and the smaller fibula) are fractured and displaced — where they aren’t touching or overlapped anymore. This will need to be straightened out, and in order to keep them in place, surgery will be necessary.⠀Slide 2-5 • The orthopedic surgeon inserted a rod in the tibia, called an intramedullary rod (“intra” = within and “medulla” = the hollow part of the center of the bone) to hold the bone together, with screws closer to the knee and ankle.⠀Chris mentioned that the skin was open above the fracture (this is called an Open or Compound Fracture) and is another reason to operate sooner to clean it out, and given antibiotics to prevent skin bacteria and environmental germs from infecting his leg.His open fracture was caused by him trying to take step on his broken leg (when he was amped on adrenaline in the fight). 🚨⠀You can see in his post-op xrays the cast, which he will be in for 6 weeks, where he will be non-weight bearing, in crutches, pain meds as needed, etc.⠀He appears to be recovering well. Interestingly, his bone will heal and the rod will stay, so his leg will likely be even stronger in the future. 🩺🦿😎⠀#ufc261 #ufclegbreak #ufc #weidman #theallamerican #recovery #chrisweidman #DoctorLarryTalksSports$

Warning, this is gruesome. 🚨During the UFC figh $Warning, this is gruesome. 🚨During the UFC fight last Saturday, Chris Weidman @chrisweidman suffered a leg fracture when he kicked Uriah Hall @uriahhall ⠀Dr. John Neely MD, a fellow ER doc and friend of mine, break it down for you.⠀2 bones in the leg, the tibia and fibula. His fracture wasn’t at the ankle or the knee, but more in the middle or the shaft of the bone. I didn’t see bone poke through the skin so it wasn’t compound.⠀If he came into my ER, I would have medicated his pain immediately and splinted his leg for stability, then gotten x-rays to evaluate the fracture. If significantly angulated, we may straighten it before more securely splinting it, and then called Ortho to schedule surgery. Many need to be admitted for surgery within a day or so for this fracture.⠀Brutal, but bones heal. 🦿 The amount of force he generated with the kick to snap his leg is impressive.⠀We wish him a speedy recovery. 🩺 Check out the full break down of this injury on the Channel, swipe up in stories! ⠀#UFC261 #chrisweidman #uriahhall #ufc #weidman #weidmanlegbreak$

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