SUP INJURIES Pablo Codesido
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Slater’s injury: metatarsals and something else. The WSL (World Surf League) championship this year in J-Bay (South Africa) brought us again, another moving news. If a shark recently attacked Mick Fanning, this year his majesty Kelly Slater suffered a serious foot injury in a free surf session that will leave him out of the water for a few months. The sequence, like the whole process of your injury can easily be followed on the internet. The wave, a magnificent right is surfed by perhaps the most masterful of all time, pure class, but when the final impact occurs, under the foam, Slater appears injured, with a pain that makes it impossible to walk, crawling to the shore as it could, difficult and dangerous situation. And it is that the sea does not distinguish from kings… From the first moment, a certain severity was predicted, foot very swollen and painful, with certain deformity. The medical services of the championship after a first evaluation and a simple radiography warn the fracture of two metatarsals of the foot, namely the third and fourth. They seem very displaced, and several questions begin to emerge: immobilization, surgery, how long ...? Very adequately, the injury is evaluated in the second instance by traumatologists (my guild, that’s what we’re doing ...). There is a slight anomaly in the simple radiography also at the base of the first metatarsals and after carrying out new tests, Lisfranc lesion is also evidenced. Kelly is going to need surgery. And indeed, several plates and screws to stabilize this injury. Several months will keep Kelly out of the water. 114