PODIATRIST DISCUSSES KANSAS CITY QUARTER BACK'S TURF TOE

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Patrick Mahomes' injury report for the remainder of the post-season included his well-documented concussion but also a left turf toe injury he had suffered earlier in the same playoff victory over Cleveland. Mahomes recovered from the concussion. No such luck with the turf toe. On Wednesday, he had the injury surgically repaired, which is rarely a necessity, perhaps because the diagnosis is so generic, synonymous with the mechanism of the injury rather than severity of the tissue actually damaged. 

 

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Dr. Robert Clemency

 

Usually, the damage is not severe enough to require victims to go under the knife, according to Rob Clemency, DPM, a podiatrist with Community Care Network in Munster and Schererville. “They typically do well with conservative treatment,” he said. Prior to arriving in Northwest Indiana, Clemency was the podiatrist for the Notre Dame athletic department. “People fail to appreciate, when you are talking about professional athletes, you are talking about a difference in milliseconds,” he said in reference to success or failure. “Little things matter a great deal, not only physically but mentally.” Upon recovery from the surgery, which usually requires 12-16 weeks, Dr. Clemency expects Mahomes to have recovered those milliseconds and his confidence.

 

Source: John Doherty, NWI Times [2/15/21]


Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News


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