re: How Did They Reduce Tua’s Hip Dislocation At The Stadium?

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If childbirth was worse than dislocating your hip, I suspect that you would see a lot less people with 3+ children

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She had natural childbirth, no epidural. I can only assume you don't have kids if you don't know what that would look like.

Have your pelvic bones slowly push themselves apart while an 8 lb baby is pushing it's way out of your body for about 6-12-18 hours.

No, but this doctor said a lot depended on how bad the fracture is. Is it just a crack or two, or is it badly fractured with multiple cracks and splinters of bone...that will determine a lot.

There is an eyelet that passes through the hip socket which carries the nerves to the legs. It's the worst case scenario when those nerves are badly damaged from a dislocation, hopefully Tua's doesn't involve nerve damage.

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A lot of people said they could hear Tua’s screams reverberating down the tunnel after they took him into a room

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For real? Dang.

I had frozen shoulder once, the result of an impingement that just snowballed in inflammation. Not the same condition, obviously, but I remember the doc saying that they had to put me to sleep because the process to break apart the fused soft tissue was so loud and so painful that you just can’t be awake for it.

They ended up having to do some scope work, too, but they didn’t know that until they got a better look.

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You sound as if you have attained some real wisdom and compassion in your life.

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I assume that’s sarcasm? I didn’t throw a party. Literally just wrote I didn’t lose much sleep. I assume when you are on a gurney writhing in pain your first thought is to hold a vigil for the drunk who just caused it. I felt no animosity. I just didn’t lose sleep over his owie.

ETA: I regularly prayed for the guy so maybe take your judgement to another thread.

Classic allis technique

Modified technique:


The cool kids favor the Rochester these days I hear.

With a posterior acetabular fracture the joint is unstable and would go in and out relatively easily. A dislocation without a fracture is much more difficult to reduce.
From what I could see on the TV, his hip joint didn’t not appear to be dislocated. The femur would be internally rotated if it was dislocated posteriorly, and that did not appear to be the case on the field. But, depending on how bad the acetabular fracture was, it could have been dislocated posteriorly (thru the acetabulum) and not had the internal rotation of the femur...which is likely the case.

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Just reading that makes me queasy. I can’t wrap my head around this happening to him. What a nightmare.

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I can vouch that a dislocated hip hurts like hell. Did mine in a dirt bike accident when I was 14 years old

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I was present twice when knees were dislocated.

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I've seen one knee dislocated. Junior year of high school on a Thursday practice...Still shiver just thinking about it.

I grew too tall too fast. I was 6’1” by the 8th grade and am still that hight. That and sitting with my lower legs tucked under my hamstrings, most of the time, caused my kneecaps to settle too high in the joint.

Until I had surgery on both, my kneecaps would dislocate with quick side-to-side movement. This caused my leg to bend with my calf touching my hamstring. I’d take what ever leg was not dislocated, and push the dislocated one straight. The pain was so intense, I’d almost pass out. Then, after sliding back into joint, I’d get immediate relief.

It still would swell and hurt like hell, but the most painful part was the moment it (they) would dislocate, and the moment it slide back into alignment.