Injury 2021 Injury Updates Thread

The Butters tackle was bad luck but the Duursma one was late and he followed through after X had kicked the ball. Not even a free kick paid downfield :rolleyes:
 

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If anyone would get him right in 5, it would be the combination of Butters and Dr. Hutchinson. He's brutal on the rehab front. He'll be straight out of that moonboot and walking around even if it's causing huge pain to Zak to walk unassisted. He basically gives 24 hours of rest, then it's straight into moving it and doing basic mobilization exercises. He'll be taking a few steps on it a day after the surgery. He wont allow it to be immobilized for longer than that because it just hurts long term mobility.
Is Hutchy the orthopod looking after Zak? If so, he's in good hands.
 

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Riley Bonner (hamstring) – 4-6 weeks

Zak Butters (ankle) – Indefinite

Xavier Duursma (knee) – Indefinite

Tyson Goldsack (knee) – 4-6 weeks

Jake Pasini (shoulder) – 10-12 weeks

Tom Rockliff (concussion) – Test


Gee, I wonder if they've just forgotten to update Bonner's timeline. He's already clocked three weeks. I was hoping another 3-4 at most.
 
Is Hutchy the orthopod looking after Zak? If so, he's in good hands.

He is the club surgeon so pretty certain it would be, especially since they went to sportsmed.
 
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He is the club surgeon so pretty certain it would be, especially since they went to sportsmed.
Sportsmed??????
JFC I hope not.
Their reputation in the medical profession is atrocious.
Get as far away from them as is humanly possible.

Know two people who went in there for regulation minor knee surgery. Both ended up with life treatening blood clots that required months of rehab and blood thinning medication. RAH staff (my wife was an anaesthetic nurse there) say specialists they talk to recoil in horror when you mention the name Sportsmed!
 
Sportsmed??????
JFC I hope not.
Their reputation in the medical profession is atrocious.
Get as far away from them as is humanly possible.

Know two people who went in there for regulation minor knee surgery. Both ended up with life treatening blood clots that required months of rehab and blood thinning medication. RAH staff (my wife was an anaesthetic nurse there) say specialists they talk to recoil in horror when you mention the name Sportsmed!

Think you'll find almost all surgery done on AFL Footballers, SANFL footballers and professional athletes both male and female in SA, is done at Sportsmed.

Even bodybuilders who need to repair pectorals etc. Go there.

There was a looming bogeyman about staph infections there as there were a few in a short period of time but that was like 10 to 15 years ago.

I've had surgery there and the missus has had two ankle surgeries there and a mate of mine had a shoulder reco there too. All great experiences and great results and follow ups.

Each to their own I guess. Surgeons good enough for million dollar athletes, good enough for me personally.
 

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Jeez. The rehab for a sore body doesn't sound like fun.
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Think you'll find almost all surgery done on AFL Footballers, SANFL footballers and professional athletes both male and female in SA, is done at Sportsmed.

Even bodybuilders who need to repair pectorals etc. Go there.

There was a looming bogeyman about staph infections there as there were a few in a short period of time but that was like 10 to 15 years ago.

I've had surgery there and the missus has had two ankle surgeries there and a mate of mine had a shoulder reco there too. All great experiences and great results and follow ups.

Each to their own I guess. Surgeons good enough for million dollar athletes, good enough for me personally.

Ah, Sportsmed. Wandered in there 1997 or so looking for their database server that was occasionally going offline. No one knew where it was. Found it lurking in a closed office cupboard blowing a Parliament-house load of hot air onto itself. Where it had been for, oh, at least four years - very solid brand of non-x86 hardware I knew well that sadly isn’t around anymore. I changed a backup tape. Suspect the admin person tasked with changing tapes had left some time back and the archaic backup procedures of the time didn’t care what media they overwrote each night.

Next time, a decade later, I turn up as a patient whining about pain in the hips. They scan, call double early onset arthritis and ask what extreme contact sport I’d indulged in. Two short ignominious years at North Haven A3 reserves doesn’t count does it lol? They tell me to give up all running. Change of model of sneakers from Kayano to Nimbus and more than a decade on I’m still running 8km 3-4 times a week on the road at 5:00-5:30 minutes/km, BAC permitting ;)

Certainly hope, no, all nonsense and ancient anecdote aside, I trust our lads are in good hands. As with anywhere it depends on who you get and, sometimes generalists presented with poorly defined cases struggle more than the specialists presented with more serious but better defined challenges.


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Riley Bonner (hamstring) – 4-6 weeks

Zak Butters (ankle) – Indefinite

Xavier Duursma (knee) – Indefinite

Tyson Goldsack (knee) – 4-6 weeks

Jake Pasini (shoulder) – 10-12 weeks

Tom Rockliff (concussion) – Test

Its been updated since then ....


Injury list

Riley Bonner – hamstring (3-4 weeks)


Zak Butters – ankle (TBC)

Xavier Duursma – knee (12-14 weeks)

Orazio Fantasia – ankle (assess)

Tyson Goldsack – knee (3-4 weeks)

Todd Marshall – ankle (assess)

Jake Pasini – shoulder (10-11 weeks)

Connor Rozee – corked thigh (assess)
 
Think you'll find almost all surgery done on AFL Footballers, SANFL footballers and professional athletes both male and female in SA, is done at Sportsmed.

Even bodybuilders who need to repair pectorals etc. Go there.

There was a looming bogeyman about staph infections there as there were a few in a short period of time but that was like 10 to 15 years ago.

I've had surgery there and the missus has had two ankle surgeries there and a mate of mine had a shoulder reco there too. All great experiences and great results and follow ups.

Each to their own I guess. Surgeons good enough for million dollar athletes, good enough for me personally.

Yeah I’ve never heard a bad word about Sportsmed until the post you are responding to. In Darwin all doctors referred you there for sports injuries. The NT mantra “If you’re in pain get on a plane” usually meant you’d end up at Stepney.
 
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