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According to the interwebs, a high ankle sprain, or ankle syndesmosis injury; "if at any point during treatment an X-ray shows a diastasis, surgery will probably be recommended."
Surgery for a syndesmosis injury is designed to reduce the separation between the tibia and fibula. If there are no barriers keeping the tibia and fibula apart, the surgeon may simply need to place screws through the two bones to hold them together while the ligaments heal.
In summary, sounds like Booth may have a diastasis of tibia and fibula due to a severe sprain or tear of the syndesmotic ligaments...sounds shitty.
We have not been told the specifics of Booth's injury (ie, does he have complete syndesmotic ligament tears or not...if he does it is a grade 3 injury, if he doesn't it is a grade 2) nor the specifics of the surgical treatment (was it an arthroscopic procedure with cleaning up torn ligamentous debris or was it an open procedure with screw fixation). Without this knowledge it is hard to know what his recovery course might be expected to be.
Having said that, either way, expecting him back in 8 weeks is very very optimistic and expecting him to be out 12 to 24 weeks (and it could be longer) would be a more realistic way to plan. If I was Booth I would be parroting Kessler and saying I won't be back until the injury is perfectly healed as if he comes back too soon he risks long term complications and perhaps even the end of his career.
The only plausible reason I can think of that MG would tell the media that Booth might be back in 8 weeks is to use that possibility as a reason for whatever player personnel decisions he makes from now till the trade deadline, and to give the Canuck faithful some hope (at least those that believe that Booth's presence would make a difference).
Waffle wrote:We have not been told the specifics of Booth's injury (ie, does he have complete syndesmotic ligament tears or not...if he does it is a grade 3 injury, if he doesn't it is a grade 2) nor the specifics of the surgical treatment (was it an arthroscopic procedure with cleaning up torn ligamentous debris or was it an open procedure with screw fixation). Without this knowledge it is hard to know what his recovery course might be expected to be.
Having said that, either way, expecting him back in 8 weeks is very very optimistic and expecting him to be out 12 to 24 weeks (and it could be longer) would be a more realistic way to plan. If I was Booth I would be parroting Kessler and saying I won't be back until the injury is perfectly healed as if he comes back too soon he risks long term complications and perhaps even the end of his career.
The only plausible reason I can think of that MG would tell the media that Booth might be back in 8 weeks is to use that possibility as a reason for whatever player personnel decisions he makes from now till the trade deadline, and to give the Canuck faithful some hope (at least those that believe that Booth's presence would make a difference).
No way he gets flown out of Vancouver for arthroscopic surgery. Definitely more of a major surgery methinks. I would say he's out a minimum 3 months, but likely more given the scope of the injury. Canucks will have to be DEEP into the playoffs for Booth to play hockey again this year.