Another Ken Roczen Update: Latest Elbow Surgery

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TheGetFresh wrote:

Trans world just posted that Honda confirmed its a compounded fracture

ML512 wrote:

Update as of 4/19/17: Ken Roczen has dropped another slightly graphic but big update for his recovery. Not a lot of details on his end other...

Update as of 4/19/17: Ken Roczen has dropped another slightly graphic but big update for his recovery. Not a lot of details on his end other than it relates to his elbow. From the looks of things, he's had some sort of bone graph performed...which ties into somethings we've heard about the elbow taking some serious damage. Crossing our fingers for you Ken!

Elbow surgery took a bit longer than expected. Stoked we got it out of the way! Huuuge thank you to the doner! Very very thankful.

A post shared by Ken Roczen (@kenroczen94) on Apr 19, 2017 at 5:53pm PDT

Update as of 2/20/17: Ken is nearing the end of his surgery list and it's really stacking up. He just finished up number eight, has a ninth one on Wednesday and will need one more to get the external fixator out...that's ten total! Yikes... Check below for the latest from the man himself.

Went in for surgery #8 yesterday and the pain afterwards was absolutely miserable that anybody that looked at me I wanted to punch in the face, even my woman. Lol (sarcastically) Doc said it was a very difficult and challenging surgery because everything was so damaged. ( I never half ass things) haha and couldn't get it all done at once:-( Again, i believe in what he does and to be able to come back good I rather follow his lead and take our time. Having another surgery on Wednesday and I hope that ll be it. Might have to keep the exfix in for a few weeks and will have to get that taken out later too. #gritforglory Period. You can throw as meny rocks in my way as you want. My dad didn't raise a pussy to the injury

A post shared by Ken Roczen (@kenroczen94) on Feb 19, 2017 at 12:36pm PST

Update as of 1/27/17: Ken has updated us from Instagram once again as he goes in for his third surgery today. The latest update includes photos of what his arm looks like without the bandages on, it's quite graphic...

Link to multi view replay of the crash: http://www.vitalmx.com/videos/member/CRASH-Ken-Roczen-Injured-in-Anahei…

Surgery #3 today. Gonna hopefully slowly fix this bad boy up soon.

A photo posted by Ken Roczen (@kenroczen94) on Jan 27, 2017 at 8:08am PST

Update as of 1/24/17: Ken's latest update on IG after his first surgery is up. He's in good spirits, but mentions he's going to require at least four more surgeries, yikes! Get well soon Ken, check below for the quote from his latest post.

Got lucky with a lot of things the last few days but i got the luckiest with the people that r loving me And supporting me. Starting off with my amazing woman. Not just in times like this but on the daily. Also close friends and especially family and friends from Germany. Most important thing in life is be healthy and have great people around you. Even tho I am not healthy right now I feel like I achieved the rest. From Gf to friends to family to my amazing team @honda_powersports_us it makes all this shitty time only half as bad cause I got positive thoughts to hold on to. Got about 4 surgeries to go or so. All gonna be good. Or as @oswi_cbad and I say. IT LL BUFF OUT lol

A photo posted by Ken Roczen (@kenroczen94) on Jan 24, 2017 at 10:12am PST

Update as of 1/23/17: Ken Roczen has updated fans with his overall list of injuries, including a dislocated wrist and elbow, along with the compound fractured radius. It sounds like Ken is dealing with a lot of swelling and hasn't gone in for his initial surgery yet, as he's actually flying to Vail, Colorado to see a specialist of his choice to perform the first surgery.

Dislocated wrist, dislocated elbow and compounded radius. The first 30h absolutely sucked as none of the pain killers worked and it was really swollen. Gonna need few surgeries to get all this dialed. I have gotten so many messages and was so pleased to read all of them. I didn't message back as the circumstances right now are just a bit gnarly and it would probably take me a day to reply lol. Just know i saw them! Love all you! Gonna need a few days for further info.

A photo posted by Ken Roczen (@kenroczen94) on Jan 23, 2017 at 6:54am PST

Just got an update from the floor, from the sounds of it the Alpinestars Medic crew is signaling for a broken arm with Ken Roczen.

Edit: The HRC Honda team has confirmed a compound fracture in the lower left arm for Ken Roczen, he was transported to a local hospital to decide if immediate surgery is required or if they will weigh the options.

tek14 wrote:

I was more worried about hit he took with head to jump face. It could have been so much worse. Dungey and Pourcell broke their neck...

I was more worried about hit he took with head to jump face. It could have been so much worse. Dungey and Pourcell broke their neck way softer hits. Broken arm isn't career ending.

kkawboy14 wrote:

No news on a concussion? Man he hit his head hard!

burnside wrote:

You guys think the lapper came into play at all? He kind of squared off that corner a bit early. Just wondering if he was taking...

You guys think the lapper came into play at all? He kind of squared off that corner a bit early. Just wondering if he was taking a line more to the right for most of the races. Reminds me of RV's horrendous similar crash.

MBR wrote:

Didn't look like he was out at all, he moved his left arm right away and touched it just to confirm what he was feeling...his arm...

Didn't look like he was out at all, he moved his left arm right away and touched it just to confirm what he was feeling...his arm was broken.

brocsdad wrote:

The 450 class will definitely be boring unless someone finds speed to match Dungey. Though I felt this was going to happen to Ken at some...

The 450 class will definitely be boring unless someone finds speed to match Dungey. Though I felt this was going to happen to Ken at some point. Dungey is boring but he would have settled for 2nd or 3rd and came back next week.

wastedspace wrote:

[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/01/22/170678/s1200_IMG_4371.jpg[/img] Might be more then a broken arm. Look at the blood on his hip

Might be more then a broken arm. Look at the blood on his hip

ML512 wrote:

I'll dip in some info here that should hopefully help you understand what happened. At MEC, Ken overshot the first rhythm in this section, compressing the...

I'll dip in some info here that should hopefully help you understand what happened. At MEC, Ken overshot the first rhythm in this section, compressing the suspension heavily and causing it to pop weird for the next set, which he then cased after losing his pop, then endo-ing off the third...

Tonight, he landed a little deep off the first rhythm, into a rut, blowing the shock through the stroke right as the bike hit a very abrupt triple face (a few guys had similar bucks with the abruptness of this lip).

Another factor, in my opinion, on why the reaction was so severe is Ken typically likes softer settings (from what I've been told by both his prior teams) which could compound this reaction.

Lastly, the bike itself wouldn't have a "flaw" in my opinion. The linkage ratio on this bike has been modified to match up to a near equal value of the previous models (well within the range of what other manufactures use). Their shock travel/stroke length wasn't compromised with the change either.

ti473 wrote:

After watching that crash replay many times, this hypothetical scenario started playing in my head.. You're Kenny Roczen at A2, on that jump... as you're hitting...

After watching that crash replay many times, this hypothetical scenario started playing in my head..

You're Kenny Roczen at A2, on that jump... as you're hitting the eject button and are half way through the air, time suddenly freezes... The devil appears and says: "I will make you a deal. You can either break your arm and nothing else, or take your chances"

Do you take the deal or do you not?

Sure it could end up like Monster Cup where nothing happened and you're racing the next moto, but it could be much worse. This is also assuming if you take the arm deal it is nothing long term debilitating.

Now there are two way to answer that question. A) If you are actually Kenny, in his position of winning a supercross championship. Or B ) if you're you, Joe Schmoe, in the same exact crash situation, with the same injury outcome/risk.

Me personally, I take that deal in either situation... at least with that kind of crash.

brocsdad wrote:

The 450 class will definitely be boring unless someone finds speed to match Dungey. Though I felt this was going to happen to Ken at some...

The 450 class will definitely be boring unless someone finds speed to match Dungey. Though I felt this was going to happen to Ken at some point. Dungey is boring but he would have settled for 2nd or 3rd and came back next week.

bsharkey wrote:

and Anderson lost 25 points tonight also. good night for dungey on the fact he won and two main competitors lost big points

ti473 wrote:

After watching that crash replay many times, this hypothetical scenario started playing in my head.. You're Kenny Roczen at A2, on that jump... as you're hitting...

After watching that crash replay many times, this hypothetical scenario started playing in my head..

You're Kenny Roczen at A2, on that jump... as you're hitting the eject button and are half way through the air, time suddenly freezes... The devil appears and says: "I will make you a deal. You can either break your arm and nothing else, or take your chances"

Do you take the deal or do you not?

Sure it could end up like Monster Cup where nothing happened and you're racing the next moto, but it could be much worse. This is also assuming if you take the arm deal it is nothing long term debilitating.

Now there are two way to answer that question. A) If you are actually Kenny, in his position of winning a supercross championship. Or B ) if you're you, Joe Schmoe, in the same exact crash situation, with the same injury outcome/risk.

Me personally, I take that deal in either situation... at least with that kind of crash.

scooterwhipmoore wrote:

HaHa... I'm pretty sure Dungey cut a deal somewhere (probably pushing his bike to the pits when he ran out of gas in TX.) James Stewart...

HaHa... I'm pretty sure Dungey cut a deal somewhere (probably pushing his bike to the pits when he ran out of gas in TX.) James Stewart had his number in 2012 winning the firat 4 moto's aaaand POOOF crashes out, Tomac has him covered in 2015 winning (dominating) the first 5 moto's POOOF, and now Roczen has him covered and POOOF race 3 crash.

pilotdude wrote:

He has a dislocated elbow also.

gekko wrote:

Define compound fracture: medical : a broken bone in which a part of the bone sticks out through the skin.