DETROIT LIONS REST PLAYERS WITH FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES: CA PODIATRIST

ACCORDING TO DR. ALIREZA KHOSROABABY, A CALIFORNIA PODIATRIST WHO PRACTICES AT THE FOOT AND ANKLE ALLIANCE, THE DETROIT LIONS HAVE BEEN THWARTED BY POOR MANAGEMENT, DRAFT PICKS THAT DISAPPOINTED AS WELL AS FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES.

WHILE MOST PLAYERS PRACTICE IN THE OFF-SEASON, SOME OF THE LIONS HAVE BEEN RESTING DUE TO THEIR FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES.  FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES ARE SOME OF THE MOST COMMON PROBLEMS AROUND THE NFL.  MOST OF THE INJURIES HAVE BEEN HEALING WELL DURING THE OFF-SEASON, BUT DETROIT LIONS COACHES AND DOCTORS AREN'T TAKING ANY CHANCES.

PLAYERS SUCH AS MIKEL LESHOURE HAVE BEEN INSTRUCTED TO TAKE IT EASY. LESHORE TORE HIS ACHILLES TENDON DURING LAST SPRING TRAINING AND HAD TO HAVE IT SURGICALLY REPAIRED.  HE IS RECOVERING WELL, BUT NOW HIS OTHER LEG IS BOTHERING HIM AS THE BODY COMPENSATES FOR THE INJURY BY PUTTING PRESSURE ON THE OTHER SIDE.

SAFETY LOUIS DELMAS AND LINEBACKER DOUG HOGUE AND STEPHEN TULLOCH ARE TAKING TIME OFF AS WELL.  DELMAS ROLLED HIS ANKLE AND SHOULD BE BACK ON THE FIELD SOON, ALONG WITH HOGUE AND YULLOCH.

FOOTBALL PLAYERS CAN GET FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES DUE TO RUNNING, SIDE TO SIDE CUTTING, OR FROM DIRECT TRAUMA FROM ANOTHER PLAYER DURING A TACKLE.

FOOTBALL PLAYERS (AND EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING RISKS:

1. INVERSION ANKLE SPRAINS CAN DAMAGE THE ANKLE LIGAMENTS, AND CAN ALSO BE ASSOCIATED WITH PERONEAL TENDON INJURIES AND FRACTURES,

2. ANKLE FRACTURES, METATARSAL FRACTURES, AND LISFRANC FRACTURES CAN SIDELINE ATHLETES AND SOMETIMES REQUIRE SURGERY.

3. CUTS AND BONE BRUISES MAY ALSO RESULT FROM HIGH IMPACT DURING TACKLING.

4. EXCESSIVE TRAINING CAN LEAD TO HEEL PAIN, ACHILLES TENDONITIS, SESAMOIDITIS. STRESS FRACTURES. POSTERIOR TIBIAL TENDONITIS IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS,

YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BE IN THE NFL TO SUFFER FOOT AND ANKLE INJURIES. ANYONE CAN INJURE THEMSELVES,  REMEMBER. ANY TYPE OF FOOT AND ANKLE PAIN IS NEVER NORMAL,  IT IS IMPORTANT TO SEEK ADVISE FROM A FOOT SPECIALIST SUCH AS A CHIROPODIST OR PODIATRIST SO YOU CAN HAVE YOUR FOOT EXAMINED AND GIVE YOU THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION,

PLEASE CALL ONE OF OUR CHIROPODISTS AT 416-465-8737 TO SPEAK TO ONE OF OUR FOOT SPECIALIST ABOUT YOUR FOOT AND/OR ANKLE NEEDS.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY YOU TORONTO CHIROPODIST AND TORONTO FOOT SPECIALIST, MARZ HARDY, D.Ch., B.Sc., PODIATRIC MEDICINE AND THE TEAM FROM ACADEMY FOOT AND ORTHOTIC CLINICS.

 

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