A doc’s opinion of Svech’s torn ACL

All right, let's find out a little bit about Andrei Svechnikov's, not the injury, but the recovery, if you will. And for that, we bring in my friend, Dr. Salen Parekh, the official orthopedist of the Adam Gold Show. He doesn't know that, I just made him that, from Rothman Orthopedics in Princeton, New Jersey.

Doc, thank you so much for the time. I don't know if you've seen the video, but on Saturday, Andrei Svechnikov tore his right ACL. It was an innocent play, just looked like a little stumble on the ice. He actually came back and skated a couple more shifts because it was late in the period. He skated two more shifts in the second period and played the entire third period.

I've never seen anything like that. How do you play with a torn ACL? Well, you know, a lot of these harmless type of plays can lead to injuries. Think about Carson Wentz a few years ago, same kind of thing that, you know, diving over the goal line and ended up with that ACL tear. So it happens. And what ends up happening with these guys is there's so much adrenaline pumping that they can keep playing for a little while. And then, you know, the game's over, they swell up, the pain really starts setting in and they're more aware of the injury and then that's it.

Chance, he made it worse by playing in the third period? I don't think so. You know, the instability isn't going to be necessarily there for everybody. It won't be that bad. The fact that he played makes me think, yes, there's a lot of adrenaline, but he probably wasn't super unstable, so he's able to play.

But that's obviously not something you can do long term. No. Do you question whether or not he is human if he played in the third period with a torn ACL? Well, listen, we know all these pro athletes. They are superhuman, right?

These guys do things that mere mortals can't do. Dr. Salen Perec is joining us here. Fantasy Doctors Online, by the way, go check that out. He hasn't had the surgery yet. So first of all, how long until in normal cases you would have this surgery? So a lot of it depends on the theory of the surgeon taking care of him. And what I mean by that is there's some data to suggest work on early motion, try to get some of that swelling to calm down, and then do the surgery in a few weeks. And that's one school of thought. There's another school of thought that says, let's just do the surgery quickly, get him in and out, and on his way to recovery. The long-term results on either of those things is the same. So it really depends on the surgeon preference and quite honestly, partly the athlete as well.

All right. Now, what is the time frame for recovery for this type of injury now? It used to be you'd be out for longer than a year. Then Adrian Peterson, I think, came back in like eight weeks.

I'm joking, but it seemed like it. What is the time frame for recovery here? Yeah, you know, AP came back in six months, broke the timelines, and then had a monstrous year. The problem is when you have somebody like that, the expectation from everybody is that everybody should be able to do that, all pro athletes. But the reality is that when you still look at the NFL and you look at the NBA and Major League Baseball, it's nine to 11 months for these guys to get back. Hockey's a little bit different because the demands of the knee are a little bit different.

The fact that you're on a smooth surface where the friction is very little, it makes it a different situation. So for hockey, you normally see these guys get back in about six months. Really? They can start getting on the ice in about six months. Six months?

Start getting on the ice. So we're still talking a few, maybe another month or two before he's able to come back and play. So I guess in my brain, I had Andre coming back around Christmas of next year. That's probably still a pretty good timeline, no? That's still a pretty good timeline, absolutely. And you know, do you really try to rush him when it's not needed at that point? I think you give him his time, let him come back in December-ish timeline. I think that's reasonable.

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They do lose their stats in terms of scoring and assists. So, you know, Andre is such a strong player. You would think that he should be able to overly compensate for it and be as good as he is now. Connor McDavid, he has certainly suffered. He only has 120, like 129 points so far this year. Connor McDavid had an ACL injury like five years ago.

It has really hampered him. I hope Andre has the same recovery that Connor McDavid had. Dr. Salen Perec, I appreciate your time at Foot Doctor, Foot Doctor and Fantasy Doctors, Fantasy Doctors Online. You used to be Foot Doctor.

Yeah, when we first started with Foot Doctor and then the Fantasy Doctor grew and now we're just the Fantasy Doctors. Thanks, man. I appreciate your time. Thanks, Adam. You got it.

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