Marcelo accidently breaks guy's leg

well that was horrific

That’s a really bad injury. Tough red but Marcelo didn’t exactly avoid the obvious collision. That guy will be lucky to play soccer again. Likely tibia/fibula fracture in addition to multi ligamentous knee injury.

Injury was worse than I thought. Complete knee dislocation. One of the worst injuries in all of sport (obviously). The location of the neurovascular bundle behind the knee means 25% have a popliteal artery injury and 25% have a peroneal nerve injury (and potentially permanent foot drop).

Also the fact that it looks so bad in the X-ray is horrific because it means the team’s medical crew didn’t reduce the dislocation, which is needed ASAP to reduce the risk of neurovascular compromise.

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Tug on the leg until it straightens out, basically.

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Damn. I don't know if I'd make that call on the field.

You can, but it’s temporary. You’ll put them in a splint until they go to surgery. It’s a multiligamentous repair from the orthopod, plus vascular if there’s a popliteal injury.

Is that actually his XR or just a stock google image knee dislocation? Without question one of the few true orthopaedic emergencies. There are a lot of people who think they’ve had a “knee dislocation” when really it’s just a patellar dislocation. Aside from the fact that you have to shred every ligament holding the knee to dislocate it like this, the real concern is vascular. Amputation is not an infrequent sequelae after this injury. And if you avoid that, you are stuck with a severe multiligamentous knee injury with a low chance of ever being close to the same.