Media The worst leg break in history of MMA (not for painted heart)

Can he come back from this injury?

  • Total voters
    69
Bojka said:
Does he have some kind of bone density problem? Not watching the video, but I have no idea how a femur breaks from MMA.

I could understand a car accident or falling from great height.
Click to expand...
It's real weird, like his bones are made of styrofoam.
 
BoxerMaurits said:
A compound distal femur fracture… I think this is the worst injury I’ve ever seen in any combat sports, holy shit.
I really doubt the kid can come back from this one. Looks like a career ending injury, you can literally hear his thigh bone break in half.

Prayers to Dylan Reischman

Swipe at your own risk:

Click to expand...


I wish this kid a speedy recovery. He's in for a decent little hospital stay and a load of pain meds.

I broke both femurs as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Shit is no joke. Very, very painful with lots and lots of rehab. It's been a little over 10 years and I'm still nowhere near where I was prior to the accident.
 
Bojka said:
Does he have some kind of bone density problem? Not watching the video, but I have no idea how a femur breaks from MMA.

I could understand a car accident or falling from great height.
Click to expand...
He's obviously still young and unexperienced. Tho, that injury will give 10+ years milleage. He will learn a lot. Hope he recovers.

Anyway, this is a grappling heavy related injury. You need to learn how to fall and put your body position properly, this is why Judo is so important.
 
ShotInTheTeeth said:
I wish this kid a speedy recovery. He's in for a decent little hospital stay and a load of pain meds.

I broke both femurs as a result of a motor vehicle accident. Shit is no joke. Very, very painful with lots and lots of rehab. It's been a little over 10 years and I'm still nowhere near where I was prior to the accident.
Click to expand...
Damn, that’s a life changing accident.
Are you able to do any sports now?
 
BoxerMaurits said:
Damn, that’s a life changing accident.
Are you able to do any sports now?
Click to expand...

Oh yeah I can play sports still. Just comes with a lot of soreness and frankly I'm nowhere near as good because of it.

It kinda caused me not to want to play hockey/baseball any longer because frankly it wasn't fun for me to play thanks to the soreness. I haven't played a game of hockey since the accident and have only gotten back out on the ice to skate around with a few of my buddies. Same with baseball. I was 23 when it happened to me so this kid should make a good recovery as long as he doesn't get hooked on the pain meds that he will likely be able to have access to. Dilaudid made me feel like I could run 1000 miles on two broken legs but I nipped that in the bud quickly so that I wouldn't become dependent on it.
 
ShotInTheTeeth said:
Oh yeah I can play sports still. Just comes with a lot of soreness and frankly I'm nowhere near as good because of it.

It kinda caused me not to want to play hockey/baseball any longer because frankly it wasn't fun for me to play thanks to the soreness. I haven't played a game of hockey since the accident and have only gotten back out on the ice to skate around with a few of my buddies. Same with baseball. I was 23 when it happened to me so this kid should make a good recovery as long as he doesn't get hooked on the pain meds that he will likely be able to have access to. Dilaudid made me feel like I could run 1000 miles on two broken legs but I nipped that in the bud quickly so that I wouldn't become dependent on it.
Click to expand...
I’m glad you’re doing fine nowadays bud. I’m sure there’s a bunch of examples from people where the recovery didn’t turn out that way.
I can imagine the hardest part of your recovery was to get back the confidence in both your legs, breaking them in half is no joke.

About 4 years ago I dislocated my knee in sparring, and I remember the first few trainings after recovering it was a bit scary to move around the way I used to, and to fully trust my knee again.

Here we see a 19-years-old @BoxerMaurits back in training for the first time after suffering a dislocated knee in sparring, with a knee-band for extra safety:D



I experienced that same “fear” about a year later when I trained for the first time without a knee-band, and it disappeared after like 4-5 training sessions.
Can’t imagine what it would’ve taken for you to get back some confidence in your body
 
BoxerMaurits said:
I’m glad you’re doing fine nowadays bud. I’m sure there’s a bunch of examples from people where the recovery didn’t turn out that way.
I can imagine the hardest part of your recovery was to get back the confidence in both your legs, breaking them in half is no joke.

About 4 years ago I dislocated my knee in sparring, and I remember the first few trainings after recovering it was a bit scary to move around the way I used to, and to fully trust my knee again.

Here we see a 19-years-old @BoxerMaurits back in training for the first time after suffering a dislocated knee in sparring, with a knee-band for extra safety:D



I experienced that same “fear” about a year later when I trained for the first time without a knee-band, and it disappeared after like 4-5 training sessions.
Can’t imagine what it would’ve taken for you to get back some confidence in your body
Click to expand...

Cool video of a young CroCop <Wink2>
 
I can see that there was a massive amount of tension there, but still very odd to me that this caused the femur to break rather than mangling the knee joint instead. Something might have been wrong with that bone to begin with. I am not a medical professional of course - maybe it happens more than we think.
 
You knew what I was gonna watch..
I didn't want to watch it..
I watched it..
and I regretted it.
 
TempleoftheDog said:
Well I came back from a VERY serious car crash when I was 19. I don’t want to paint myself as being special. The doctors did not expect me to live. But several operations later. I was competing again and trying my best. I was proud, of myself.

I don’t recall in recent time anybody that died from breaking their leg, though.
Click to expand...

I nearly lost a femur fracture once. Broke, lacerated the artery, leg was the size of an elephant leg. Gave him like 20 units of blood before surgery took him and saved him. Close call, not a good thing to happen at night
 
Femur is super strong, very unusual to break under “human” loads, normally only happens due to high impact collisions such as car crashes or high falls. I would have expected his knee to twist in all kinds of awful ways, but not the femur to snap. Really unfortunate.
 
StonedLemur said:
Yeah, they told my aunt she had 2 months to live and she lived for 2 years, and that was a couple of specialists.

Im gonna take your word for it? Nah
Click to expand...
Yeah I had a similar situation with my mom

but her femur didn’t snap in half like a overcooked breadstick
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Forum statistics

Threads
1,275,233
Messages
57,976,329
Members
175,889
Latest member
MEthzale

Share this page

Back
Top