AFL Player #20: Peter Wright

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Usually a dislocation would be put back in place and strapped, surgery would be if the damage is more severe and/or the shoulder keeps coming out coz ligaments are loose or something so they’d operate then to clean and stabilise the joint. If it’s his first dislocation then it could just be put back in, ice it for a week and then play strapped until it fully heals.

I’m sure people have played with broken collarbones before too… they’ve certainly played with broken legs, broken fingers and broken ribs. Surgery can pin it back together and then you get on with it even if it does rule him out, 4-6 weeks sounds more reasonable. As long as it’s just a bone fracture and not affecting the joints at either end (the more common one is the AC joint we’ve heard so much about, but that bone is jointed at both ends).
Not really the case anymore. Most shoulder dislocations tend to lead to surgery straight away these days.
 

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Oh well, good chance to give Voss and Baldwin a go, and maybe even Cox and Reid when they finally (please) get on the park.
 

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AFL Player #20: Peter Wright

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