Dr. Alexis Colvin talks impact of Alex Smith’s leg injury
Alexis Colvin, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said a compound break is the more problematic of the two issues.
“It’s now, really, two injuries that he’s recovering from,” Colvin said, speaking generally about those types of injuries. “The broken bone, but also the muscle and the skin being injured around the leg.
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“If you don’t have blood flow to the leg and it’s been more than eight hours, you can have a likelihood of having to amputate the leg as high as 80-plus percent,” said Dr. Alexis Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital.
“But in his (case), everything was very timely. Everyone saw it. The injury had immediate attention to it. It’s pretty unlikely.”
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“We have the most data, and the literature say there’s a successful outcome after ACL reconstruction,” Anthony said. “While the biological therapies, such as stem cell, have a lot of promise, we have less data to show they will have the same success rate as an ACL reconstruction.”
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