Scaphoid or distal radius fracture are at the top of the differential for a "wrist fracture near the thumb" (and where LaMelo was pointing), but it's certainly possible that it's one of the other wrist bones and/or theres associated ligament injury that has made this more severe.

Saw this news and knew exactly where to come for in depth injury analysis

Sad to see everyone in sports getting injured, but at least Brian Sutterer's got a lot of vids to make.

Poor Lamelo, he is rookie of the year in my book😢

Don't forget, Lamelo came back in the game and was scoring with a broken wrist. Mad respect for Melo

These videos should be used as case studies to make anatomy or sports science classes more interesting and applicable.

Melo was still laying on the floor when Doc was finishing the edits for this video! 👀🤣👍

Being a Charlotte fan just means being in constant pain im basically numb to it now

Sheesh your quick with the vids

Not only am I impressed with your content, videos, technology setup...as a Family Med/Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine resident, I’m even more impressed that you post this quickly as a PM&R resident-majority of people here have no idea how busy residency is (watching medical shows doesn’t count)-so I tip my hat to you boss, your time management skills inspire me

Would you be able to do historical injuries from the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s?

been watching you for awhile now & im STILL amazed at your quickness

Great video thanks DR

I did that in gym class once. I wince at that clip because i know. Probably had a difference in severity, but i wasn't back to normal for about 4 months. Couldn't imagine having to play professional basketball. Hope he can get some stem cells shot in there to heal faster.... in all seriousness wishing the best. Bright future ahead

Such great videos, absolutely love the medical analysis

Amen I am Always glad to hear Dr.s as him

Thank you for the information, always!

Never heard of this doctor till now while searching for Lamelo injury. You sir have a new subscriber. Keep it up. Very enlightening

Excellent episode.

The consistency and speed of your videos are quite remarkable

Brian you are the best, I truly enjoy your analysis, very informative.👍🏼

Only coming here to get info on sports injuries - Thanks Doc-

Another great explanation doctor, thanks again 👍👏

Thanks for the quick response Doc!!

I just would like to say, that after you came to KZfaq.. there has been other doctors trying to do what you do. But ur the best !!!

Thanks Doctor Brian.

man has had a busy day with all these videos keep up the good work

Awesome vid, Doc.

There goes down Charlotte's playoff chances. Take your time to recover melo

Damn bruh uploading everyday, everybody getting injured

Glad to see you back in the office, Doc!

I had this same injury years ago. It took me 6 months to heal, hopes he has a speedy recovery man.

Great content

Doc, your background is dope can’t lie

I had the same injury when I was in the Army in 1997 and was in Germany. Went a day with it broken before I went to sick call, then had a neon green cast from armpit to fingertips for months. Ahhhhh, the memories.

Nice jersey you have there, in the background. 👍🏽🔥

As a student in Physical Therapy Dr. Brian's help me to understand all kinds of injuries in a simplify and understable way. Thanks Doc

Nice video, even better Book jersey on Mr. Bones

Thanks doc

as per, amazing content 👏

I broke my scaphoid in 8th grade from a FOOSH exactly like this one (falling backwards). Didn’t get it x-ray’d for 7-8 weeks and needed a bone graft to repair the decay that occurred along the fracture. This is one of the first vids where I knew about just about everything you were talking about bc of this experience.

Doc I like that your a big sport fan at heart!

Hey Doc you have inspired me to start my own KZfaq channel as far as sports and Medicine are concerned. Greetings all the way from Somalia .Thank you

You're really good at making any injury on any sport interesting, even if you don't watch or don't know about injuries :)

you are amazin doc, so fast

Great jersey in the background!!

My coach coached us to not put our hands down like Lamelo did here when falling back. Do you agree Brian?

Missed watching these videos hopefully someday I can study sports medicine

This guy deserves 1mill subs

Most underrated KZfaqr.

Mans is committed to KZfaq

That dbook jersey in the background is 🔥🔥

Was gonna subscribe but I already am you tube sucks at making my feed what I want to see I have learned a lot on how to avoid injury I train eccentric often now and my shoulders thank you

As an engineer! These presentations you present are so awesome. And I hope I can be a presenter just like you

Dude just hit a deep three,an and-1 and getting Freethrows even his wrist is fractured .Respect🥶

I had the scaphoid fracture with avascular necrosis. Brutal recovery, still hurts every day

You deserve more than 407k subs🙄

I had this but from skateboarding. I heelflipped a gap going as fast as i could. I broke my ulna, and dislocated my hand and compressed my wrist bones up into my hand so it was like a smooshed Z. I had to get my wrist stretched back out to reset my wrist, they decided to not do surgery that first healing process, then after the healing, they discovered bad damage to my ligaments or tendons in my wrist so my wrist bones started spreading apart, and i had excess bone growth scarring on my ulna causing pinching in my nerves and veins in my wrist. So i just underwent my second procedure where they cut and carved excess bone in my ulna, cutting a triangle out then putting in a screw to compress the bone, then they cut one of my 2 arm tendons that i guess i had where some people only have one going down there arm, i had 2, they told me they could use one of the 2 because its like a left over tendon or something idk. So they cut it, then drilled a hole through both wrist bones to then tie a knot loop through my 2 bones and pulled them together. So the shitty thing is.... now my wrist is WAY too tight.... so i get bad pain and discomfort every time im twist or bend my hand or wrist or do any sorta action with my hand. I went from being able to do push ups, throwing baseballs, playing basketball, digging with shovels and pick axes, to now i can't even do a push up, not even one. I can't even throw a ball without grabbing my wrist in discomfort. So unfortunately i have to undergo another surgery because im also developing a gangular cyst on my ulna, which is showing slight damage to the joint but thats not a big deal, they just need to loosen my wrist so i get range of motion back and create more space in my wrist so its not pinching my nerves. It has been a shitty last couple of years dealing with all these procedures and i was a general contractor, carpenter, landscaper, remodeling worker and i had to stop because i also tore my left ACL and that surgery didn't go well either and i lost my ability to lock my leg and engage/activate my quad or pull up my knee cap, so im going to have to under go another knee surgery as well.... Shit im just ranting but im not trying to complain i just felt like sharing a story lol. My bad lol

very good

Yo Brian! So I am a big wrestling fan and the NCAA wrestling national tournament just passed this weekend, and a wrestler named Spencer Lee came out and told the public that he was wrestling the whole tournament with both ACL'S torn in his knees. I know that pain and swelling will reduce after some time and you can still walk or run with a torn ACL. I just thought it would be cool if you checked out the interview and broke it all down! Preciate you and what you do! ✊🏾

Great analysis doctor. I experience a fractured scaphoid and it's something you need to take care because it takes long time to heal.

I’m sad for melo shit stupid he was going hard he’s still my rookie of the year 🙏🏾💪🏾

PLEASE make video on SPENCER LEE. Iowa wrestler that just won his 3rd National Championship and tore is ACL 8 days prior. And he actually doesn’t have one on the other side either. He’s an athletic spectacle and wants to make this years Olympic team in two weeks! Thanks! Love your content!

Love the Suns jersey in the background

We all need to do our part and share his page to get him to a mil plus subs

Fractured my wrist 2 years ago downhill longboarding. Took 6 weeks to get out of the cast and into a soft brace, but I swear even with exercises that thing took like 4-5 months to get to feeling about 90%+ right. Even now when I do pushups my wrist stills gets a little sore.

Love that jersey man 👍

Love your Booker jersey, Doc!

Broke the styloid process of my radius snowboarding on Christmas. It’s been nearly 3 months and I’am about 85%. Wrist extension is giving me the most trouble which is probably the most important part of shooting. Wishing a speedy recovery to Lamelo

Loving the Suns Jersey in the background

A few years ago I had a very similar fall and broke my distal radius and it required surgery. Very tough injury but my wrist is very close to normal now as far as range of motion after rehab. Hope for a speedy recovery for Melo

this is exactly how i broke my arm when i was 14 i tripped while playing basketball and i tried to break my fall but instead i broke both bones in my left forearm and it also went out of shape , it wasnt straight and that same night in the ER they had to straighten the arm out and then i had metal plates and screws placed it to make sure my bones were gonna regrow properly

i had this injury twice in a year. it was awful. i had 7 casts and then after i re-broke the bone for the second time in a year i had surgery.... finally. so difficult to heal.

Can someone give me the long story short version of this video? I don’t have time to watch it right now. I just want to know what the best case scenario and worst case scenario for Lamelo is .. in terms of his injury. and also what the most likely injury he suffered was with the healing time frame . Would be much appreciated 🙏

That was an awkward fall. All he had to do was bend his knees and let his butt take most of the impact. I hope Melo comes back stronger than ever!

One of the bright spots of this season was watching Lamelo come into his own! Devonte Graham is low-key smiling though, no matter how twisted that sounds. He lost his starting job and a lot of minutes to the young buck. I really hope he mends well and comes back as good as he left. I've had that exact same break myself and it took 2 surgeries to get it right with 9 months being in a cast. The scaphoid was my worst wrist injury because it was the bottom half of the scaphoid that didn't heal and it never got the proper amount of blood flow. Hence the long healing process. Hopefully the 2nd opinion Lamelo is getting is better than the first. You better believe that this is Lavar pushing for that! Great video Doc!

What i always wanna know the most is how long the injury will take to recover so it’d be nice if you could give some insight on that early in your vids. Otherwise amazing content

How would you break fall properly without falling on your wrist? I broke my wrist & had to go through 1 year recovery. Scaphoid Lunnade SL ligaments tear

You should do a video with skateboarding injuries

Had the same fracture in fall and was out for over 2 months when i got back the season stopped and we didnt have any games after i got back

is it still a foosh is an object falls on your outstretched hand. same mechanism just backwards right? i broke my ulnar and radius like that

Had a fracture in my left hand needed 2 surgeries for it had a metal rod and a few screws. I really hope and pray his is no where near as bad

Crazy how I know what he talking about guess human anatomy wasn’t a waste of time 💀

I had same fracute and my doc didnt realized it on x ray so i keeped playing true pain for 3 months, when the season ends i went to doc again and i needed surgery and now after 2 years i had 2 surgerys and lifelong deformity, i cant do the pushups or smtg similar and my career is basically over

I just had the same injury last night. Same fall too. They didn't say it required surgery tho, they just put a cast on it.

I’ve fractured my scaphoid before from FOOSH mechanism when playing basketball on a similar play. Had to have my thumb casted along with my forearm, so it’d be interesting to see how that could possibly impact LaMelo’s shooting hand if that’s the bone affected.

I’ve had a very similar injury one of the worst pains ever to me

I fractured my scaphoid playing basketball in 10th grade. I can say from experience that if you're going to injure your wrist, don't break the scaphoid! Doctors initially said that it would take 2 months to heal , but in the end it took 5. Then I needed 6 month of rehab.

Had exact injury when I got blocked going for a lay up.All weight onto my wrist. All I remember was getting up and seeing my deformed wrist.

How does a nurse get involved in sports med?

Whewww.... injuries here and there...!!!

I would love some videos on ways to properly fall, or anything that players do incorrectly or instinctively from a doctors perspective.

That Book Valley Jersey is FIRE

I have fallen like this from riding an euc (like an ebike), i tell ya it really hurts and take aLOT of time to heal. Took like 4 months to even do pushups and lift weights like chest presses. Always wore a wrist guard since then

This man just came to the league🙄

I fractured my wrist in that exact same way except I fell off the top bunk of a bunk bed and fractured both my wrist in 3 places in both wrist

Could you do Silas Wamantiguikas(sorry idk how to spell it) ACL tear?

Can you do a video on how to fall? For athletes and non athletes?

Feel this pain

Drawing that arrow w the mouse was especially clean handling.