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So those are the two first immediate triage things that need to be done, and fortunately, as I was standing right outside the Octagon, were done.” The next phase of getting him to the ambulance and the hospital is important because right then and there you have someone in horrific pain, you don’t want someone going into shock, and you need to start getting them some pain medication under a monitored setting. That was really the most important phase right there.
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Anthony Ruggeroli), it was lined up, and despite the fact that he was in horrific pain, his leg was maintained as rock solid as they could by holding it steady that there would be no further inadvertent injury. The most important thing in terms of minimizing damage or preventing any new damage once the injury occurred was how quickly he was attended to in the Octagon.
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And the third reason, is that although it is not perfectly lined up, nor did I attempt to get it perfectly lined up, it still has the potential to heal on its own.”Īnd even though the injury was severe, it could have been a lot worse, with two keys to it being manageable due to the bone not breaking the skin and the quick attention Silva received in the Octagon and on the way to the hospital, which is a Level 1 trauma center. If one were to fix the fibula, that might pull the tibia apart and in fact then act as a strut, keeping the bone from compressing. The second reason was, in terms of getting the leg to heal, the most important thing is to have compression where the bones meet.
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That could increase his risk of infection. And I did not want to expose the environment of the fracture to the environment of the operating room. If the separate bone were to have been fixed, it would have involved an incision at the site of the break. “First and foremost, the nature of the injury involved internal damage – stretching, stripping if you will, of the tissues around and attached to the bone. “There were several reasons not to do individual surgery or fixation of that bone,” said Sanders. The fibula was stabilized, but without a rod. In surgery, a titanium rod was inserted in Silva’s left tibia from below the knee joint to above the ankle, with three screws securing it. “There are other external factors that can affect a fracture healing, but in this case, not his age.” “His age does not play a role in the fracture healing,” he said. But as Sanders points out, whether 18, 28, or 38, Silva shouldn’t take any longer to get back on his feet. It’s the mark of a competitor and the best to ever strap on the gloves in a mixed martial arts fight, but after the injury, which took place when Silva threw a kick which Weidman checked, not many were optimistic about the Brazilian icon ever entering the Octagon again, especially considering that he is 38 years old and facing approximately a three to six month healing process before even rehabbing his leg. But the former middleweight champion and future Hall of Famer, wasn’t interested in such details before surgery. But the minute it occurred, I’m sitting there going ‘that’s fixable.’”Īnd after successful surgery Saturday night to repair Silva’s tibia and fibula in his left leg, the next step is healing, then rehabilitation. “I have been taking trauma calls at the hospital (University Medical Center) since I moved to Las Vegas in 1991,” said Sanders on a media teleconference Monday, “so when the injury occurred, seeing it, the only question I had in my mind was ‘how low down on the leg was the fracture?’ Because depending on the level of the fracture, influences my thinking as to what type of orthopedic device I’m going to need to fix it. So when one of those great fighters, Anderson Silva, fell to the canvas in pain after breaking his leg in his UFC 168 bout against Chris Weidman last Saturday, the UFC’s orthopedic surgeon wasn’t gasping or staring in shock. Steven Sanders is always thinking two steps ahead.