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Let’s make it clear for all the journalists out there: the ankle syndesmosis is a structure, not an injury. Being a physiotherapist who watches rugby regularly, one wonders why armchair medicos/commentators continue to try and give their “expert” opinion on a topic they have no expertise on.
What often results from such opinions being broadcast is a thousand health-related questions from your rugby-watching mates, who now feel the urge to run you through their entire past medical history.
Jeans are rolled up, shoes are off and often two tries have been missed on the box! Don’t even mention flat beers!
You can have a syndesmosis (in fact, you have two ankle sydesmoses) but the injury is a syndesmotic sprain or, commonly, high ankle sprain.
I let it go as a brief error in journalism when Rocky Elsom suffered the injury, but now it seems every report written regarding James Slipper cites it as the injury.
How hard is an online search to clarify your information? This hard probably.
Now, stop guessing whether a cruciate/MCL/hamstring has been torn. Learn the correct medical terms and let me watch the rugby without offering my mates free consultations.
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