Doohan's foot injury?
Bob Mihalek
a photo of him wearing some sort of bone-stretching device to lengthen
the bone of his lower leg. The article also mentioned that he had
surgery done to straighten out some bent toes.
Bob Mihalek (mih...@cshl.org)
Mark Smith
Mick broke his leg mid-season in practice at the '92 Dutch TT. He was leading
the points by a mile and surely would have collected his first crown if not
for the complications that set in shortly after the op to fix the leg.
Basically, the Dutch docs screwed up, infection, swelling, etc, set in, then
they had to slice from knee to ankle to ease the ballooning. Muscle became
wasted, healing(?) with bone exposed occurred, skin grafts and then
suggestions of amputation lingered. Some said it looked like a shark attack.
The contraption screwed into his leg (carbon fibre, I believe), was to
straighten the bone. He's been hobbling around since the accident, and has
been using the well-documented handlebar-mounted lever in lieu of the rear
brake pedal due to the lack of mobility in the ankle. Not too sure about the
toes.
Doohan OK for '95!
Cheers
Dr Ivan D Reid, 猶R Facility, PSI
mih...@cshl.org (Bob Mihalek) writes...
>I was wondering when and how mick doohan injured his foot. I just saw
>a photo of him wearing some sort of bone-stretching device to lengthen
>the bone of his lower leg. The article also mentioned that he had
>surgery done to straighten out some bent toes.
It was a crash at Assen a few years ago -- 92? Doohan had made a
good start to the season with the then-new-and-secret big-bang motor, and
was well ahead in the championship. Unfortunately, the hospital that Doohan
was taken to had no expertise in sports medicine, and was treating him as a
"civilian" injury, postulating many months of recovery time. His crew had
to literally kidnap him to get him to Dr Costa, but some damage had already
been done. He was able to race, but not competitively, in the last few
races of the season, where he had a mathematical chance of still securing the
points to take the championship, but he couldn't do it and Rainey took No. 1.
The rushed recovery led to several complications, which had to be treated
over the next few off-seasons.
Ivan Reid, Paul Scherrer Institute, CH. re...@cvax.psi.ch
GSX600F, RG250WD. SI=2.66 "You Porsche. Me pass!" DoD #484
KotPT -- "for stupidity above and beyond the call of duty".
Adam Gladstone
Europe. (Hungary or Chech.) in 1993 when he was leading in hte points
over Rainey. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. I'm glad he finally won
it all in '94.
--
Adam Gladstone (gla...@io.org)
Work to ride. Ride to work.
Toronto, Canada
Henry Koplien
writes:
> I was wondering when and how mick doohan injured his foot. I just saw
> a photo of him wearing some sort of bone-stretching device to lengthen
> the bone of his lower leg. The article also mentioned that he had
> surgery done to straighten out some bent toes.
I don't know of any new injury. I would guess it is his old injury from
Assen (was it '93?). The *Wilhelmienen Krankenhuus* or how it is spelled
correctly seems no good choice.
Henry
KINGFACE
each toe were removed to relieve some pressure (for some reason after the
accident his toes clawed). He also underwent some surgery to give him
about 20% movement of his ankle.
edw...@imap1.asu.edu
that didn't complicate matters enough the local dutch doctors botched the
surgery, would allow the veteren gp doc (costa??) to perform the
operation and mick almost lost his right foot just above the ankle when a
serious infection resulted. he had the ankle operated on numerous times,
after that and at one point had the left ankle grafted to the right to
provide the proper blood circulation. after riding on it during the '93
season, he had another operation and the straightening/lengthening
contraption installed. i haven't heard of any other surgeries since then
and the ankle seems to be okay even though he's lost most of it's movement.
ed longwell