Maybe not as bad as it looked for Milton.... "Early indication was its a dislocated knee, which cut off blood circulation. They did pop his knee back in place and doctors are with him. No confirmation of surgery, but he is at the hospital." If he gets out of that with just a dislo and no surgery, he got lucky. The loss of blood circulation is the worst part.
I’ve never heard of a knee “dislocation”. Sometimes lay phraseology makes things sound less severe. Your leg doesn’t bend that way without significant structural damage. Whether it’s bony or ligamentous is the real question. Imaging/surgery will reveal the extent of damage.
Yes, it's a thing. Knee dislocations are traumatic injuries characterized by a high rate of vascular injury and seen in high and low energy injuries treatment is generally emergent reduction and assessment of limb perfusion high energy is usually from MVC, crush injury, fall from a height, or dashboard injury resulting in axial load to a flexed knee low energy may be from an athletic injury, routine walking, or morbidly obese ultra-low injury hyperextension injury leads to anterior dislocations posteriorly directed force across the proximal tibia (dashboard injuries) leads to posterior dislocations fractures-present in 60% of dislocations soft tissue injuries, patellar tendon rupture, periarticular avulsion, displaced menisci Prognosis complications frequent and rarely does knee return to a pre-injury state I did see one article this am suggesting a leg fracture also occurred but that may just have been because it looked so misshapen. He did have surgery.
That's what happened to Teddy Bridgewater. Players in view were puking at the sight. Takes a lot to dislocate a knee.
My point is there is more significant tissue damage, not just a stretch then back in place like the word dislocation conjures up. Medically, the terms used will be related to the actual damaged tissue, I.e. ACL and MCL tears, femur or tibia fracture, etc. If the surgeons involved end up using the word dislocation for a knee injury, it will include other descriptors, and will only be used for simplicity, not accuracy. And, the other point is that it is as bad as it looked. The word dislocation makes it sound like it’s “not that bad”. This injury is very bad. I’m in cold rain ringing a bell for Salvation Army right now. I’ll try to find something from a medical site to include later.
I agree with you that it is very bad. 85% who have vascular discontinuation for more than 5 hours result in amputation. What I posted came from an Ortho website...it does paint a serious picture. Can't imagine Milton will ever completely recover.
