Doctors give some positive thoughts and important things to note on Lions' running back David Montgomery's injury
The Detroit Lions are dealing with a lot of injuries right now. Some of them were expected coming out of the Lions' loss to the Bills, but nobody expected the loss of David Montgomery for any amount of time, but he will be out for an indefinite amount of time with an MCL injury. The […]
The Detroit Lions are dealing with a lot of injuries right now. Some of them were expected coming out of the Lions' loss to the Bills, but nobody expected the loss of David Montgomery for any amount of time, but he will be out for an indefinite amount of time with an MCL injury.
The first thing to note here is that nobody is saying the words "torn MCL." This is an MCL injury and that can cover a lot of different ground.
We spoke to Dr. Colin Looney of the Bone and Joint Institute about DeAndre Hopkins torn MCL this past summer and he talked about the multiple different types of MCL injuries including the length in which they could take to heal.
"MCL injuries definitely more favorable than most ligament injuries of the knee, and that's because most MCL heal on their own." Looney said. " It's a big, broad, flat ligament. It's got a lot of blood supply, and it tends to heal on its own, and even a grade three typically can heal on its own, and that's a complete tear. A grade one is a, you know, a small partial tear where there's no instability, there's not any sloppiness to the knee at all. A grade two has some mild opening. And the grade three is like you've seen it where they stress the knee from the side, and it really opens up like a hinge. And that's a grade three and that athlete has torn his MCL completely."
Looney went on to say that he would hold a player out for a week with a grade one, two to four weeks for a grade two and then grade three is six to eight weeks.
At this point, we don't know what the grade of the injury is, but we do know that nobody is saying the word "torn" and if they are, they didn't get that from the Lions. The Lions are getting a second opinion on this and you have to wonder if that second opinion is about the difference between a grade one and a grade two. If it were torn, it feels like we'd just know that already.
The other good thing is that the Twitter football docs are seeing a mild MCL injury here too.
Keep in mind that while these guys are experts on the subject, none of them are treating Montgomery.
So right now it seems set in stone that some time is going to be missed for Montgomery, but there should probably be some optimism that he could be back for the playoffs.
We'll find out soon enough what we're looking at when updates come in. Hold out hope.
Update: We now know the follow-up and that is that Montgomery will require surgery. His season is done per Dan Campbell.
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