Alexander Zverev Suffers Painful Ankle Injury vs Nadal - Doctor Explains
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- Alexander Zverev suffered a bad looking ankle injury during the French Open Semifinals against Rafael Nadal. In this video we'll review what happened and take a look at the important aspects of this injury.
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Another ankle injury, at this point I think I can take an exam on ankle anatomy.
Hahaha
Taking an exam has nothing to do with your leg tho?
@@ossifiedbunny1149 your comment has nothing to do with anything
You will Ace it
If play sport ankle injury is guaranteed needs to be mandatory to learn. I had two serious ankle injuries before
Finally a sport that I watch on this channel. Watched this match live and it really sucks. That match would easily have over 5 hours at the level Nadal and Zverev were playing.
I was just so upset cause now Nadal is gonna win his 22nd grand slam. He's not as tired as Ruud cause Zverev unfortunately had to surrender. Now Nadal is gonna have 22 grand slams and Đoković 20 which sucks. And I really wasn't expecting this type of pre-injury performance from Zverev cause he's just so inconsistent.
@@biros7775 its clay to be fair, Nadal probably woulda won anyway
@@GreenBeanTeam yeah but I think Zverev couldve won the second set
@@biros7775 Novak is a bum.
@@maxstappen1243 lost first set leading 6-2 tiebreak lead 5-3 second ens serving for 6-3. could be 2-0 1-1 or 0-2 it was that close
As a tennis fan, thank you for covering this
Doc. Always on top of anything injury and sports related. You’re the man.
I injured my ankle in a similar way to that, hurt like hell and couldn’t fully walk for 2 weeks, didn’t get back fully on the court for over a month. Hope Zverev can recover well
Tragic :/
Are you a professional tennis player?
same. I couldn’t walk for 5 weeks and took 2.5-3 months to fully recover.
I have/had chronic twisting ankles when playing football with friends, have had like 8 sprained ankle in each foot.. painfull af, retired at 25yo xd
Yep! Happened to me playing basketball. Screaming in pain for a couple of seconds and then not being able to play for almost a month
Appreciate your in-depth analysis. Zverev is my favourite player so this was awful to watch live and the most concerning thing to me was how he was crying out in agony, so thanks for clarifying that that didn’t necessarily determine the severity. Hoping we’ll know more from Zverev and he gets better soon.
He appeared in an instagram video today saying the injury is serious and that he will have more information to share about it soon.
it was really hard to watch him roll around the ground in pain, wasn't a good sight, i also think he could have taken that second set and possibly even win the match
He won't be well soon I had a similar injury on court and my roll wasn't as bad as his , this will take 2-3 months minimum longer if surgery is involved , his career is pretty much done at this point he will never be the same.
@@harryp3804 he's been one of my favourites to watch ever since that victory over Novak in the Nitto ATP finals, really really hope he makes a full recovery but i do agree bringing this kind of form back on a relatively weaker ankle will be very difficult, holding my fingers crossed at this point
Lucky he diddent break it like McGregor thank God I'm a Nadal fanatic but in my opinion he was playing well especially first set bsecond set was crazy but Nadal looked tired if this diddent happen and Zverev had won the tiebreak I've no dowt he would have went on to win the match and the tittle I wish him a speedy recovery💯💯🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏❤️
What a great self-secure, knowledgeable Dr. !!--Amazing, good, understandable explanation. Thanks
Great job BRIAN. Thank you!
So sad!Zverev actually had a chance!It was the best he ever played!I wish him a speedy recovery!
6 months
Hopefully!🤞
And he is BACK! Hope he does well
My daughters were very competitive athletes in their teens, and suffered various ankle and knee injuries. The 13 year old went over during a jazz leap, and everyone heard the tearing of ligaments. It was a Grade 3 sprain, and physio/rehab took a year to return to competitive level again. She would have had an easier healing process with a fracture.
Yup on point my minor ankle roll lasted well over a month and still wasn't in perfect shape even 6 months down the line...he's going to feel a niggles for the rest of his life his career is pretty much over at this point in the sense that he shall never be the same again.
@@harryp3804 not really- you can recover from this sort of sprain with proper rehab. Torn ligaments may not heal fully, but training surrounding muscles to prepare for strength, power, coordination…etc, he will be able to return back to his full capacity, and even beyond as he continues to train. Physio here.
@@harryp3804 Surely you had more than a minor ankle roll? I would think sprains are so common almost every athlete has had them at some point.
@@pbjbagel was probably minor compared to zerev , but I screamed same as him to be hoenst when it happened it definitely twisted quite a bit😭
I've had the same injury playing squash. Took a year before I was back to normal. Terrible injury.
And after a time frame that felt like infinity everyone’s favorite famous doctor is back posting :) good to see you on YT again it’s not the same without you man
And I went to look for your video doc and sure enough there it is! Love your channel I’ve learned to take care of my ankles due to this
Very insightful. Thank you for posting!
Excellent Presentation. Thanks.
Awesome video. Super crisp explanation and delivery. Marvellous.
Great explanation. Thank you.
Zverev is the man. Tremendous sportmanship making the effort to come back on court after the severe injury. I hope he returns to 100% soon---he seemed to be finding his highest level in this tournament and was outplaying Rafa in most of this match.
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@@otism4347 she was lying about that 😁😎👍
@@kingadjust5422 it is really slander what these people don't stop repeating!
@@otism4347 absolutely...he IS a domestic abuser. His formal girlfriends told what dick he is and one of the girls he hit
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Excellent explanation. Thank you very much.
Informative; thanks
Awesome explanations!
What I like about this channel is how versatile it can be. Yes, all injuries are related to sport, but with so many injuries that happen all the time, Brian can really focus on any of them and get some new audiences.
Keep up the good work
Well done. Thanks!
I was hoping you would do a video on this one. Glad it's not the typical mechanism for a high an ankle sprain.
Thanks to Brian, I analysed my son's ATFL injury and took him to a doctor. Brian makes me smarter every day.
I had a really similar injury when playing football (soccer). What made mine worse was a) the fact that I actually ran (put all my weight and momentum) on the injured ankle -- Zverev didn't seem to put all of it, but he did push on it to get back; b) the fact that, not being a tennis champion, I didn't actually get treatment till 5 hrs later, when the ankle had roughly reached the shape and size of an angry, purple pumpkin. I tore two ligaments (I don't remember which though!!), was immobilized for 6 weeks, I hobbled for about a year, and it took me 2 years to be able to run and play football again. Even today I have days when I wake up with my right ankle stiff and painful, and it takes me a few minutes to warm it up again !
I'm surprised you can still play football... After I had a really similar accident to yours my right ankle never felt the same. Since my right ankle weakened I found shooting to be extremely strange with my right. I could never use strength without it hurting. Nowadays after multiple more mild sprains to my right, it starts to hurt if I even stand too long.
@@bian7744 I had a a similar injury. Torn ATFL whilst playing squash. It took 2 years but eventually I was back to running half marathons and playing provincial tennis. But on cold mornings it still flares up. It's such a shitty injury
I was waiting for this as soon as I heard it happen. Hopefully be recovers quickly and gets back on track
Thanks! Very thoroughly explained.
Thank you so much for this in-depth and clear analysis doc. I wish him a quick recovery, he looks like a great guy.
Good stuff man. As a sports physio love the content you provide
Any guesses on if it's a grade 2 or 3 sprain based off the movement analysis?
You have a great voice and a talent for communication Dr.Sutterer!!
Thank you Dr.!
Hi Brian, tnx for the video. Havng sprained both ankles during my volleyball era, I know a thing or two about those injuries, and one thing here is very weird: Why didn't someone immediately bring ice and bandage? Wherever I looked and read on sport/medical sites, it was always said that as soon as you can put the ice and tightly wrap the ankle, the better, all in effort to mitigate the interior bleeding and inflammation.
Thank you..!!
Did this to myself on a football pitch, 3 days before Zverev, second type, ATFL, CFL. Thank you for that video
Thanks you! Very well explained to a layman.
u r amazing i learnt a lot also i have a bad ankle from previous injuries and that’s realy cool to see the ligaments and how they get hert
Really good content
I'm sure i could hear 2 distinct cracking sounds before his body hit the ground. I hope it doesn't rule him out of Wimbledon, he was playing so great, tough match for both players.
I'm sure he will unfortunley ligaments dammage a couple of months and that's if it's not a serious problem
My favorite player so freaking sad seen it live and literally felt so bad for my boy Shacha
Nice explanation
Good job, Doc.
godspeed recovery for Zverev
Totally agree with the end about pain not being an indicator of significance-I remember during basketball tryouts I landed and my ankle sprained and I heard a pop. I thought I broke my ankle and that my season was over-turns out it was a grade 1 and I was back in a week!
Loved the video and overview. Very informative. Some of the comments are so misinformed, I had to laugh. I'm nursing my 2nd rolled ankle/fracture in 9 months. These guys have access to equipment/trainer/doctors that 99.99% of people don't. My suspicion is that he recovers in time, and will wear an ankle brace "on both" ankles for the rest of his career.
I injured myself similarly including fracturing the lateral malleolus. The bone break took about 6 weeks to recover but the ankle itself was about a year before it was fully recovered. Now I'm totally fine
Excellent video. Wish the doctors we call to testify at trial explained it this well :)
Depends how bad the ankle injury is, hopefully it’s not major. The major ones are very difficult and can be chronic
Dude dint you see the video ? It was pretty got damn bad he's out for 6 months minimum and it's sure as he'll gonna be cronic
@@harryp3804 goooooooodddddd
My heart goes out to Alexander Zverev. He's such a great player & this injury is a catastrophe.
College tennis player here!! Love this video, thanks so much
First time ive heard about a Big Injury, then came for ur Channel, and u DID NOT had a Video to it yet :D Rare
Would like to have heard you address some different scenarios from those ligament injuries on prognosis and convalescence short term and long-term.
Was it odd that it wasn’t immediately wrapped? He came out with nothing on it. Would even a small amount of time below heart immediately after injury not be bad? That free foot when he came back out made me nervous About swelling.
Yes great explanation. Let's hope it is not as bad as it looked (and sounded.)
I had an ankle injury where i tore two ligaments..Took me 6 months to go back to competitive sports, ankle is still swollen at hurts on impact..
Excellent explanation. Thank you. Poor Zverev. Such a shame.
I sprained my ankle on my right foot two years ago and i still have pain there. I don’t think my ankle will ever be the same again.
Wow, ironically I just got all 3 of those ligaments repaired. I am currently on my couch in a boot. It is crazy things like that happen.
So sorry for your injury get well soon
Ankle sprains are underrated in painful experiences. One wrong step can ruin you for months, While Im sitting here with my purple foot
The recovery from this sort of injury doesn't usually take much time. It's a common injury for different kind of sports. The pain is very high the first minutes, then it calms down and you feel way better.
I hope in a month he will be fully recovered.
I injured my ankle like this when I was 15 years old and it bothered me for three years I would keep re-injurying it on unlevel ground or when I was playing sports
@@Sussy-hotdog most of times it looks the same but you should consider that we all have different kind of body, weight, training.
Even more he will get the best doctors and team around him, and the recovery would be real quick. I'd be surprised for the opposite
@@MoholtSb guess what…. you’re gonna be surprised, because it’s not gonna be real quick. you’ll see and then you’ll know when they announce it
@@MoholtSb He tore ligaments, that takes way longer than a month to get fully back from
Unfortunately he revealed that he tore lateral ligaments of his foot and will be getting further advice from his doctors in Germany on a treatment plan. Hoping he can come back to full strength.
Doc, can you give some info on injury to the interosseous membrane as I have an athlete, who had Grade 2 Sprain but MRI also indicated IM tendonitis.
Sad but true. I wish Alexander (Sascha) Zverev a speedy recovery.
One rehab device is called a "Wobble Board": it's a circular piece of wood with a hemisphere of hard plastic on the bottom, curved side downward. In order to keep the edge of the circle off of the ground, you have to balance yourself. It works all kinds of muscles but I do it for ankle stability. I would imagine surfers and skateboarders would find this easy.
Interestingly, it's easier to do while on one foot in the middle of the board rather than two feet at the edge.
I've done this to my ankle before... I was told by the dock that I was better off breaking my ankle as ligament damage is a long road back
It's terrible. It took me 18 months before I could walk normally and about 2 years until I could really get back to competitive tennis and running.
When I was 25, I injured my left ankle coming down after blocking my friends shot in basketball. My posterior tibial tendon was streched just to the point of complete ruptrue, but was still intact. However, I couldn't walk on my pwn power for 18 months, had 6 cortisone shots in 1 year, battled tendonitis for 7 or 8 years, and never regained complete flexion of my left foot. I had initially walked-off my injury and felt the next day I'd be sore with a bit of a limp, but when I woke up to a black foot, I went immediately to the hospital. Sometimes what appears to be a routine injury can be something that last years or affects you the rest of your life!
Thanks very much for all the information ! I know from personal experience that the best healing can be achieved with some ice put directly on the spot in the first hours : when i neglected to do so, the recovery lasted many weeks !🤗
I hope Sascha Zverev can see your video : it's very useful ! 👍
I think of you after I saw that injury. Good job doctor
Please make a video about Cody Rhodes' torn pectoral tendon
Hey Brian, was wondering if you could do a video about a possible link between achilles tears after an acl tear, athletes like Klay and Tarik Cohen come to mind
same injury I faced one month b4. doctor advised me take few weeks bed rest.
So if surgery is not needed with a grade 3 tear, do the ligaments simply re-attach themselves in time? Will ligaments regenerate more ligament tissue or is there a "filler" like a callous when a bone fracture heals? Thanks for the video. Well done.
If it is a sprained ankle, normally, for professional athletes to recover, it should take up to 6-8 weeks of intense rehab. For broken ankles, depending on the severity and how well he responds post-op, it should take up to 3-4 months for him to recover 90% and another month to get in shape 100%. HOWEVER, this kind of injury leaves a permanent mark on the athlete. Even if it is minor or major, he will never be 100% recovered. There will always be that 1% that he needs to recover, mental of physical. He will surely have days when he senses some irregular pain in that injury area. And he will be proned to injuries like this for the rest of his career. The probability is slim but it is there. So, I wish him a speedy recovery and for the best results to come after a full recovery!
Agree with you. For those saying this may just be a minor injury, are not speaking from an athlete’s point of view. Several tennis players who have sustained injuries (including to the ankle and foot) returned to tour play but never regained their form. They simply were not the same players that they were before their injuries. Hope this is not the case for Zverev though. He has a career high world ranking of #3 right now and has improved so much.
@@ny4000 I am not an expert on this but I can say from the point of view where I had to stay with my father to help him in his rehab. And he broke his leg , double fracture, which is far worse. And he had to endure more than 14 months of rehab. He is also a bit overweight and had to do sports and physiotherapy to restore his movement as much as he can. And until this day, 3 years from the incident, he has to stay with a bump leg for the rest of his life. He still feels pain and sometimes has to take pain killers for it. And this is from the point of view of a person over the age of 50 years old. In the case of athletes, chances of an almost full recovery are very high, but things will never be the same after such injuries. If this happened once, it will happen again. Question is how bad it will be next time or when it will happen. Hopefully, for Zverev, it will happen after his career is over. Because he still has a lot of years ahead and tennis is a very solicitating sport for the body. Also, we can see on Nadal how injuries affected his career. But he still had to fight so much through his injuries to return to the best shape possible. And even now, he feels slight moments of pain.
@@iurietivladut7607 the irony in all this is that Nadal came into this tournament with a nagging foot injury that everyone was so worried about. But it was his opponent who wound up injuring his ankle. You just never know.
@@ny4000 optimist mofos like you always keep hoping even in the face of hard facts and experiences presented to you... I've rolled my ankle too playing tennis the OP is bang on it never fully goes away zerev is never going to be the same again especially with his weak mental mind frame.
It depends on how bad the sprain is - a bad sprain can take even longer than bone to repair and rehab to competitiveness again.
What can you do with a torn pec? Cody rhodes just wrestled with one but it looked pretty rough
What length of recovery time is there for injuries of this type for tennis players? I know it depends, but best guess.
Hes fkd m8
Curious too. If you could breakdown the average recovery time for grade 1, 2 and 3 would be great
These ankle rolls seem to run common in sports as well as on this channel!! I wish him a speedy recovery
ive had so many ankle sprains but a few weeks ago i experienced my first high ankle sprain and omg its so much worse
I got a high one on my left and a low one on my right that were mild fortunately within a week or so of each other while hiking . Hit rocks on tall grass 😮 luckily they were mild
I thought you only did MMA, so glad you covered this.
Doc faster than a speeding bullet
Sprained both ankles during my basketball career. From experience, for about 1-2 minutes I’ve never had more severe pain. Him crying was an absolute common reaction to a severe ankle sprain and I felt his pain. So unfortunate as he was playing Rafa as tough as anyone, even better than Djokovic. He really is a talented man but he was playing the greatest French open champion ever. Barring injury he wil win it eventually. Plus, a lesson out of Nadal’s playbook, he showed tremendous class.
reminded me of the anthony davis injury at first of course , im curious the differences between the two will be
I’ve just had atfl and cfl reconstruction today. Could be the same!
I had a interior ankle sprain playing football two linemen fell on my lower leg
To avoid toe pain I landed on heel which caused me 30 degree inversion. Suspecting syndesmosis, CFL and ATFL tear.
this is horrific. Sasha has worked so hard god bless
This happen to me while playing basketball. My foot (from spectators) appeared to go near 90 degrees from the rest of my leg. Got an X-ray the next day and had to use crutches for a few, then I limbed for the next few weeks.
I can’t go into a dead sprint anymore as it feels like my bones/ ligaments in my ankle shift downward which makes me trip, even though I didn’t catch my foot/leg on anything.
I think there is a miracle ointment that would reconstruct everything in your ankle joint within a month or a month and a half , it is worth a try ..
I mean along with mild stretches and mild exercises , you would be running like a rabbit in no time ..besides i think some shoes are a death trap to the ankle joint .
It is good to have all this information about his injury. He found out in ten minutes!!!!!! They x-ray, pain medicine, fly him to Germany for the BEST treatment and Drs. right away. While insignificant people like myself who have worked and served for thirty years can't even see a Dr. Hummm.
German tennis player Sabine Lisiki also sprained her ankle badly many years ago, she never fully recovered I think, always have chronic injuries.
Yh it finished her
you will do a follow up when they know more with the MRI im sure they will do one or ultrasound. ? or no
Could you please make a video on the Mueller-Weiss syndrome affecting nadal
I wonder if the peroneal tendons were stretched / strained also.
That happened to me in my last year on tennis and I tried to play in the end of year tournaments and got murdered because I couldn't run or really put pace on my serves
ouch... can't watch anymore...
I think Suitable snicker with nails at the bottom would make a difference on Clay surfaces,,,
It's usually a hard court injury, that one. The red clay allows players to slide, which reduces the chances of going over on your ankle.
We've probably all done it at some time or other. It's rather painful, whether a light sprain, or a full blown rupture. I think basketball boots were designed to reduce the chances, as well.
No doubt we will hear how bad it was.
They closed the roof which affected the clay conditions
i love the biodigital anatomy tool. whenever it comes up its time to learn :)
I’ve seen a few people already mention it, but the torn pec by Cody Rhodes looked absolutely nasty. Maybe do a breakdown of that injury, if wrestling is a good idea, etc.
Where did the WWE clip go? I didn’t get a chance to click it
seems he brokes also the fibula in that torsion just before the contact with the ground
Can you explain Nadal's foot problem detailed?