Chicago Bulls all-star, Derrick Rose, is officially out for the rest of the season after tearing his ACL on Saturday’s game against the Sixers.
With roughly one minute left in the game, Rose came down hard on his left leg after sinking a shot and fell down in pain.
Watch video of the injury.
This is the last in a long list of injuries for Rose this season. He played a total of only 39 games this season due to his injuries.
Dr. Silverman Comments
This injury was predictable. Mr. Rose doesn’t have a stable leg to land on. In the video, he lands putting enormous stress on his left ankle. We all know he sprained his right ankle this year, and he also sprained his left ankle last year.
It’s this ankle instability that caused the ACL injury.
Rose comes down onto a flat surface and decelerates rapidly from full speed to 0. He doesn’t trust his left ankle so he juts his hip out and angles his knee inwards towards the center of his body. This maneuver creates artificial stability for the left ankle but places his ACL in its most vulnerable position. As he decelerates from the landing, the ACL tries to stop his leg bone from sliding forward on the knee but it’s just too much to take and POP—the ACL ruptures. This is the perfect example of a classic ACL rupture.
A growing group of healthcare providers are starting to acknowledge a greater incidence of ankle instability induced injuries. Hopefully, Rose meets one of them in the off-season. An ACL reconstruction takes 6 months to rehabilitate while an ankle ligament reconstruction takes less than 3 months.
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