Christian Craig Out For the Rest of the MX Series

Well shit. 

Thank you deathcross. 

Bad news all around with that. Heal up man.

Sounds like bad workmanship, and follow up, from the first surgeon.

He says this..."“I feel like I did everything right, didn’t do anything – I didn’t go ride early, and I did what the doctor told me,” he added. 

And then says this next paragraph...

“We’re on week three now, trying to heal up and we are doing it proper, taking our time on this one, and plan to make these last three playoffs."

Sounds a little contradictory. 

Man, Every rider is starting a podcast or vlog these days. Not gonna have time to do anything else lol

Non unions are a mother fucker. Wishing him the best

Bummer. No Husky OEM team in 450 class. 
is RJ an answer or is he too valuable to the 250 team. 

He is saying the the process has restarted, he is essentially got knocked back to recovery day 1 because the screws/plates backed out

Too valuable to the 250. They can win motos and even potentially overalls with him on that bike.

He's not going to have enough points for the smx playoffs here shortly. 

Broken hardware and fractures that don't heal as expected happens exponentially more often to these guys than it does the general public or other pro athletes. I do not get it. They either need to stop listening to their buddies on where to get things fixed or they need to actually follow instructions on limitations afterwards. Craig and barcia both out for longer than expected right now because of issues with hardware.... this is not normal. 

Will Mookie be back on the bike anytime soon ? What a wasted summer for Husky and Gas Gas in the 450 class. 

He should be fine for the LCQs, he is currently in 17th

I dont think anyone from 18-21 is racing any motocross

22nd Ty - likely to pass him

23rd - Bloss Out

24th Lorenzo - likely to pass him

25th - Savatgy out

26th - Drake- likely to pass him

27th - Cooper out

28th/29th - Out

30th - Marchbanks - likely to pass him

of the not seeded - Romain Pape is one of the few with potential to pass him, and when you factor in some of the other factory riders coming back, it's less likely.

Looking like he will be 20-22 in seeding 

It was coffee for a little while it seemed.

8th place won’t be the same without him. 

Seems to be something there, right? I know bodies reject plates and screws sometimes, but it does seem to be more common in moto athletes. Didn't Craig go to that ortho in Colorado all the top guys go to? I'm no expert but it seems that doc has a good reputation, so the issues seem to be coming from somewhere else.

It's difficult to COMPLETELY stick to the recovery plan. Simple, yes...but difficult. I have some hardware and have never had issues, and I definitely pushed the limits during recovery. I have a buddy with femur hardware and YEARS later his body is rejecting it. He was super strict on recovery when it happened.

Not sure if he's friends with people like Lemieux, Brady, Marino, McCaffrey, Edelman or not but he went to The Steadman Clinic in Vail to get it fixed. 

If you're breaking hardware before the bone it stabilizes is even healed, it means you're stressing the hell out of that hardware. I think the issue is that these guys go so hard with training most of their life that their idea of backing it down and taking it easy isn't the same thing as what they are actually supposed to be doing. Just a theory. Other pro sports have trainers and team doctors babysitting these guys every move so it's very regimented. Don't get the impression that's the case with moto but maybe I'm wrong. 

I'm sure they're great, but he lives in California, right? There's more to it than just having the superstar surgeon (or more likely their fellow) do the work. 

I hear from patients all the time about how they went to Mayo or Cleveland clinic for XYZ procedure because nobody local would help them out. All I hear is you signed up for an experimental procedure at a location dedicated to research (experimentation) and nobody does that locally because it's not been established that it's actually a beneficial thing to do. 

Again, not knocking any surgeon or clinic, and I suspect the issues all these guys have with hardware is more on them, but there's more to it than just going to the clinic with name recognition and thinking you're good to go. 

He lives in central Florida these days but not important...

You sound like you are a healthcare pro...I'm not so definitely defer to your experience in these matters. 

I just feel bad for these guys. Most high level sports the rehab and recovery is so good these days that guys are coming back much faster than they used to. These mx guys obviously have great work ethic so I'm sure they are capable of doing whatever it takes, but sometimes that's being very strict and regimented and taking it slow. I wonder how much a lot of them are getting in terms of guidance and accountability on all of this? I don't know.... I'm just rambling.... but these guys break orthopedic hardware like no other....

I had a non union in my foot that turned in almost losing my lower leg. Infection and broken hardware , I had one of the top orthopedic surgeons in the area fix it after it did not heal the first time ( He is   currently  head of Orthopedics in a major Boston Hospital ). and it did not work. But it was on a bone that got very little blood flow . 3rd time was the charm, well so far.....  

I think that its more common in Pro's because they have more extensive follow up visits. I had been cleared 2 times to ride . Both times after doing all the PT, using any device they said to use etc. First time was a regular orthopedic surgeon , second time was a sports specialized orthopedic surgeon  who only worked on top Athletes or people that had big issues. He worked on Red Sox players, Olympic Skiers', etc. The process I went through with him and his team was much more extensive than a regular Orthopedic and PT   . Much more extensive PT and more imaging of the injured area.  So in my opinion a higher chance of finding an issue.  And still with all of that extra stuff, the specialized machines to help healing along, extra X rays to check , I still had the area end up not being totally healed and some hardware failed . If not for the major infection I might not have noticed the slight cracks that were there until I had another crash.  

Cracked bones do not always result in pain or other indicators until another impact or time goes by.

That really stinks he's having trouble. Hope his fix goes smoother than mine did.

Head of or top of or fancy titles = has many other interests beyond the operating room and spends less time involved in patient care or operating. People have a hard time understanding that medicine isn't like a lot of the world where superior talent in the main thing is what leads you to the top. It's not that at all. Clinical skill is almost entirely independent of how high you climb the ladder in medicine. If your heart and soul is into being the best you can be at the daily grind of clinical work, you don't end up the head of anything. Only your patients know your name. So often I hear these credentials thrown out there and they do not mean what you think they mean. 

Some people have horrible luck, some fractures won't heal, some hardware will break. Take any individual case and you may not be able to draw any conclusions about anything. Everything may have been done perfectly. But when a certain population of people starts having bad luck far more often than others, it's probably not without explanation. 

Stem cells brooooooo come on. Fly to Panama

Screws don't back out on their own. Be honest with yourself. Maybe he got that screw backer outer virus going around?

They're everywhere. Athletes, comics, actors. Anyone can buys microphones and set up a pseudo studio. Just because you can doesn't mean you should start a podcast. One of my favorite podcast is called "Who are these podcasts?" They review and tear apart shitty podcasts 

bugger to hear....

Well CC ....u have a lovely family so spending more time with them is some sort of compensation.

heal up quick.

Seems sus.

He said he did everything right. 

Then says he will be more careful this time.

Bam said he woke up and it was sore. Pulp said he herd he crashed his mountain bike.

As someone who has a lot of plates and screws still in my bones, my opinion is that Christian is older and to think he’s just gonna heal in the same time frame as a teenager is ridiculous. Simple as that. The older you get, the longer it takes to heal. 

I don't think that's altogether true. You just don't hear about it in the nobodies of the world. I suppose someone could do a study to see if it's true but could take years to produce any kind of results and then that study would be scrutinized to pieces. Anytime you have surgery of any kind you sign an acknowledgement of everything that can go wrong including sometimes not healing. No procedure is 100% successful 100% of the time.