Patrick Mahomes tore his ACL on Sunday.
The Kansas City Chiefs’ superstar quarterback had surgery to repair it on Monday, with reports indicating Mahomes needed an LCL repair, too.
And many people thought that was highly unusual.
One surgeon spoke with People to explain why it wasn’t considered “malpractice” to do it so fast.
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Dr. Yair Kissin is the vice chairman of the department of orthopedic surgery at Hackensack University Medical Center.
He didn’t perform the surgery on Mahomes, but he broke it down.
“(Athletes) are on a different time schedule than every other human,” Kissin showed People. “They have a multimillion dollar contract, they have to get well as soon as possible. So it’s definitely not considered malpractice or wrong to do early surgery. Doing it as quickly as he had it done is actually pretty widely accepted because you don’t really allow that initial inflammatory response to happen.”
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Kissin explained that generally, surgery waits a week or two after the injury to allow swelling to subside.
For Mahomes, though, it happened quickly. And now the road to recovery begins.
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