- We've taken a look at soccer, football injuries.
You requested basketball so we're about to do it.
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Let's get started. Peewoop.
- [Announcer] They gotta stop
on that one. - Kobe.
- [Announcer] Can they get back-to-back stops?
Bryant, again, going- - Oh no, his Achilles.
What happens is the calf muscle starts riding high
because it's no longer attached to your calcaneus bone.
This actually, something similar happened
to Aaron Rogers not too long ago,
and I commented on that for TMZ Sports.
You see it, like if you zoom in on the calf when it happens,
you see the Achilles tendon pop.
It's one of the strongest tendons in the body.
And because of that, when it pops,
there's a lot of ricochet on the gastroc or calf muscle.
And I always find it interesting in basketball
when they say, "Oh, we need to make sure with an MRI
that it is in fact a tear."
That's one of those things, through a physical exam,
it's very clear whether or not to tear or not.
Like if you see the calf muscle sitting
at the top of your leg as opposed to in the middle,
you know that there's a tear.
You don't need the MRI to make that announcement.
You could say "There's a tear,
but we're gonna gauge severity with the MRI."
But they, for some reason, like to keep it a secret.
What what was actually interesting
about that Kobe Bryant injuries after that happened,
he returned back to shoot his free throws for that.
Really impressive, gotta give it to him. The toughness.
- [Announcer] 91-66, Oklahoma City.
- Oh, oh!
I get worried right away
with the Kobe Bryant Achilles tendon rupture situation here.
But let's see, Roberson ruptured his patellar tendon
in his left knee, January 2018,
while elevating to catch a lob on the backdoor cut.
He was progressing toward a return six weeks later,
but then had another setback suffering an avulsion fracture
in his knee after coming down from a jump.
Rupturing a patellar tendon for a basketball player
is really rough.
Frequently, basketball players will suffer
from patellar tendonitis, also known as jumper's knee.
'Cause remember,
every time you're making a powerful jump up,
that power is coming, yes, from the glutes,
but mostly from the quads.
And the way that the quad is attached to the lower bone
of your body is through the patellar tendon.
And that's where you're generating that torque
in order to be able to explode upwards.
And the fact that he had an avulsion fracture
is really scary.
Avulsion fracture means, literally,
it was bone ripped off the bone, ouch.
- [Announcer] Golden State, still looking at-
- Green passes it.
- [Announcer] Payton, right down the middle.
- Oh, oh! Did he snap the ulna and radius?
Oh no, this is gonna be so painful to watch.
- [Announcer] Swipe and he clipped him
on the side of the head.
- [Announcer 2] And the awkward landing at the end.
- Oh, oh! I think it's broken.
MRI on Warriors Guard Gary Payton II
showed slight ligament damage
along with his fractured left elbow.
When you're falling and you're hyperextending your elbow,
so remember this is flexion of the elbow,
this is extension.
It's not supposed to go past 180.
Once the body force is forcing it to go past this degree,
you're gonna get damage, either ligamentous or bony
and, in this case, it's both.
That means a serious recovery, but very recoverable
'cause both of those things heal.
- [Announcer] Chris Paul is gonna miss
approximately the next two months.
- Jam finger?
- [Announcer] Because of a fractured right thumb.
- Oh my God.
Look, I play basketball all the time
and I don't understand how pro basketball players
do not break every single one of their fingers
and jam every single one of their fingers every single day.
If I play more than two times a week,
I'm guaranteed jamming a finger.
'Cause you're constantly trying to go for a steal, a pass,
you're catching the ball, you're tired,
you're not as aware of your hand movements.
So I don't know how they don't hurt themselves more often.
The results of CP3's recent MRI
revealed a right thumb avulsion fracture
that will be evaluated in six to eight weeks.
Paul's return helped lead the Suns to the playoffs.
Now, avulsion fracture, as we said earlier,
is when bone is actually ripped out of bone.
So basically you have a very strong ligament
that attaches to the bone, it pulls on it,
and actually takes a piece of bone with it.
Derrick Rose stays getting hit going to the basket.
- [Announcer] You were calling out that-
- Oh, what happened? What happened? Grabs the knee.
- [Announcer] Rose came down bad on his left foot.
See him? Holding onto his knee.
- Left knee.
- [Announcer] holding onto his knee and down.
- Derrick Rose suffered a torn ACL in his left knee,
will miss the rest of the season.
When he tried to return in 2013-2014,
he tore his meniscus in his other knee.
He returned once again the following season.
But knee injuries continue to impact his availability
and his production.
It's not uncommon that when rehabbing one part of the body
that you get an injury and another part of the body.
As you're trying to be protective
of the previously injured body part,
your biomechanics and your body mechanics
change ever so slightly,
putting on a different layer of force
on the opposite side of the body.
So frequently, if a patient will present with neck pain,
as an example, I'll find that their real issue starts
from their shoulder because they have a rotator cuff issue,
therefore they're not able to fully move
and utilize their shoulder.
So as a result, they're using their trap
to raise up their shoulder and their arm
thereby wearing that trap down, making it very spasm,
and, as a result, that area is very tight,
causes a lot of pain.
But treatment needs to be focused on the underlying problem,
not just where the symptoms are.
Very tricky with the body like that.
Look, these are some serious injuries.
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All right, let's get back to the injuries.
- During this game, I think Steve gets busted in his nose.
- Oh did Derek Fisher hit him in the with the forehead?
- And Steve goes, looks at me, walks up to me and he's like,
"Hey Channing, like, what's it look like?"
And I was like, "Oh."
And he just goes crunch.
- Oh, don't do that.
- [Announcer] Try to rearrange his nose.
- And just like basically puts it back into place.
- That's brutal that he full-on broke his nose
and then repositioned it himself.
He's like a UFC fighter in there.
But no, I don't recommend anyone do that on their own.
Let doctors do it
because there's also the danger of forming something known
as a septal hematoma that could be really problematic
if you let it build up over the course of a game.
So yeah, seek medical care in those instances.
- [Announcer] Don't wanna allow him to get it going
off of your mistakes defensively.
- Oh my God!
He fell on his head, his shoulder blade, the back.
"It's not just the impact of the fall," Curry said,
"My whole right side took the brunt of the force
and my head.
It's basically like a bruise
all the way up and down your body
that you've just got to deal with."
Well, he is very lucky that it's just a bruise
and nothing more
because that could have easily been multiple broken ribs,
which makes it very difficult to breathe
while being pain-free, potentially elbow issues.
Very, very lucky in that scenario.
- [Announcer] The 20th pick in the 2014 Draft.
Jordan Bell.
- Oh!
- [Announcer] Took a tough fall again.
- Did he fall on his coccyx?
- [Announcer] A few games ago, the same spot.
- He was taken to UC Davis Medical Center
where he spent the night and underwent tests
that determined he had suffered what the team is calling
a lumbar spinal contusion.
Anytime you're falling that hard on the vertebrae,
you're potentially risking a vertebral fracture.
Compression fractures are notoriously long lasting
when it comes to the pain
and sometimes even opioid medications don't help.
And we sometimes even go to a medication called calcitonin,
which comes in the form of a nasal spray
to control some of the pain related
to compression fractures.
- [Announcer] Love his energy on both ends of the floor.
- Is that Rondo?
- [Announcer] Foul on Arenas.
- Oh, is he... - [Announcer] Three fouls
on Arenas and Daniels now shaken up on the play.
- He looks out of it.
The Celtics forward will miss at least a month
to nurse a bruised spinal cord.
During recovery, he was traded to the Kings, released,
and then resigned with the Celtics later that year
where he eventually returned to the court.
So a bruised spinal cord is interesting
because the spinal cord rests inside of the vertebrae
that protect the spinal cord.
But now the spinal cord shoots out nerves
through the different segments of the vertebrae
to give sensation, to give motor control.
Now if you have an awkward bending of the neck,
and this happens quite frequently
with auto accidents or in sports,
it can cause bruising of the spinal cord,
which creates bleeding, swelling.
And when there's bleeding and swelling,
nerves don't function optimally.
During that period of time,
your body may not be able to move normally,
you might have weakness,
you might have tingling, awkward sensations.
In fact, a lot of times when we have spinal cord injuries
to that extent or even worse,
we don't know what the prognosis is gonna be
until some time goes on
and that swelling starts being reduced
and we're able to start doing some rehab on patients
because the initial period does not give us a clear picture
of exactly what's gonna happen.
The nervous system is tricky like that.
Okay, the Lakers.
- [Announcer] Russell, what a move! Oh, DeAngelo Russell.
- Oh, what happened? Anthony Davis.
- [Announcer] Great finish. - Oh!
Looks like you got a pinky in the eye.
I mean, orbital trauma is really dangerous.
You can have all sorts of issues pop up here.
Something as simple as a corneal abrasion
to just a subconjunctival hemorrhage
to true like orbital rupture.
- [Announcer] Anthony Davis was wheeled out on a wheelchair.
I believe he is headed to the locker room right now.
- Oh my God, on a wheelchair. Didn't look that bad.
- [Announcer] It didn't look good.
He had a towel over his head as they were wheeling him away.
- Concussion! Concussion!
I thought the NFL season was over.
Now I understand that concussions can happen
in other sports.
- Are they saying this was a concussion?
- I ain't seen nothing yesterday
that made me say concussion, concussion.
Now I dunno if-
- How many times, we need a counter
for every time he says concussion.
- Let me be the adult in the room.
- Go ahead.
- Concussions are serious.
- I hope he's okay. - I know they are.
- The thing is concussions are serious,
but the way that they occur is you get a substantial hit
that causes your head to go back and forth
and that's not what we witnessed.
There was concern
that the Lakers star suffered a concussion,
but ended up being cleared to play in the teams Game 6 win
over Golden State to close out the series.
Yeah, I don't know if I would've called that a concussion.
I mean, again, I'm not the team's doctor there
and I didn't evaluate him.
But just based on mechanism of injury,
I'm a little bit suspicious.
- [Narrator] Keep your eyes on sportscaster Bob Rathbun.
- Oh, what happens?
- [Narrator] The play-by-play announcer
for the Atlanta Hawks basketball team
slumps in his chair then starts convulsing
while his co-anchor keeps going,
unaware of the emergency.
- Remember different things cause seizures
in different patients.
The first thing that comes into my mind
based on how that happened
and based on the age of the patient,
I would worry about an ischemic stroke happening
where you're getting a blockage in the arteries
that supply blood to the brain.
When you don't get enough blood or circulation to the brain,
you don't get enough oxygen to the brain,
and that can start causing damage leading to symptoms
of a seizure or what we know as FAST.
Here's an acronym that we frequently discuss
in the hospital.
- [Narrator] Rathbun's rep sent Inside Edition a statement
saying the 68-year-old announcer, quote,
"Briefly lost consciousness on the court.
Emergency medical professionals on-site
quickly treated Rathbun for dehydration."
- What? Come on.
Dehydration leading to seizure-like movements.
Look, could dehydration been a causative factor here?
Sure, but if I was a doctor in the hospital
and I just wrote as the diagnosis dehydration
for situation with that level of severity,
I think that my seniors and colleagues would question me.
I just put it that way.
- [Announcer] LeBron, nice cut and fake.
And that's gonna be a foul.
- Is that an ankle?
- [Announcer] Is holding his right lower foot area.
- You know what's weird about LeBron James shoes?
I find them to be making them lower and lower
without having good ankle support.
And as someone who injures their ankles quite often,
I wanna know what the science behind that is.
Because I know good heel lockdown can reduce ankle injuries.
But man, when you roll your ankle
and you have nothing up there to protect you, it's rough.
The 19-time All-Star told reporters
after he first came back, he tore a tendon in his foot.
Doctors recommended surgery,
but he sought out another opinion
from the LeBron James of feet
who determined he could return after a period of rest.
I know he said he tore and doctors recommended the surgery,
but like it's not very clear what he tore.
It looks like a tweak, but I guess there could be a tear.
Did the tear already exist and he made it worse?
Hard to know.
- [Announcer] At 3:30 this morning,
Michael Jordan woke up with flu-like symptoms.
He had a stomachache and a headache,
and he couldn't go back to sleep.
He threw up all night. - Wow.
- [Announcer] It was reported earlier,
he missed a shoot around.
But he was in bed all day and continued to throw up.
- If I was all the other players,
I would stay away from Michael as much as possible
so he doesn't spread the virus to me.
- [Announcer] A pump fake freezes the defense.
The jumper? Net.
He gets there and sits back
and they put the ice bag on his neck.
He won't even take the Gatorade.
- [Dr. Mike] So sick and suffering from flu-like symptoms
that at times he's staggered,
a dehydrated and exhausted Michael Jordan
wills himself to 38 points against the Utah Jazz
in a pivotal Game 5,
adding to his legend as a clutch performer
and relentless competitor.
That was truly special.
To be able to have muscular control and perform,
not get injured is nothing short of a miracle.
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