2023-09-24 13:49:08
Antoine Dupont on the pitch with the France team for the quarter-finals? After his operation this Friday to repair his maxillo-zygomatic fracture, the Blues playing master can and wants to attempt an express return. If medical experts prefer not to comment on a precise date for the comeback of the captain of the Blues, sources close to the XV of France speak of a resumption of training in ten days. And the Toulouse player could even, according to these same sources, return to competition within three or four weeks. Either for the quarter-finals or the semi-finals of the World Cup.
Did you say impossible? A study published in 2019 in The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, on the return of injuries of professional rugby players after facial fractures nevertheless pleads in its favor. In this analysis relayed by the very serious National Library of Medicine, experts inspected the cases of ten professional players who suffered a facial fracture followed by an accelerated rehabilitation protocol.
“The conventional period of 8 to 12 weeks for resuming contact sport is generally too long for professional players,” the specialists indicate to begin with. Coincidence of history, the average age of the players studied is 26.9 years, exactly that of the conductor of the XV of France.
18 days to resume contact
But what is the average length of absence for these players after a facial fracture? According to the study, the rugby players studied were able to resume jogging approximately after 10 days (9.9 to be precise), and specific non-contact training the next day. To participate in full contact training, you had to wait on average a little over 18 days. If Antoine Dupont sticks to this average, this would allow the French number 9 to find the group on the field just 3 or 4 days before a possible quarter-final.
Important clarification: the group of Japanese experts did not only study players with the same maxillo-zygomatic fracture as the Blues playing master. Some suffered fractures of the orbital wall and floor. There is also nothing to indicate that they had all been operated on with the installation of two plates, as was the case for Antoine Dupont. No data is also mentioned for an average date for resumption of competition.
Last significant information in this study: none of the ten players suffered other fractures or after-effects after an accelerated, even “premature” return. May Antoine Dupont be added to this list!
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