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\"Dr.
Dr. Kenneth Hunt, a surgeon specializing in foot and ankle orthopedics and the medical director of the UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center in Denver\u2019s Stapleton neighborhood, talks to elite hockey player Tariq Hammond, while a real-time scan of Hammond’s ankle appears on a screen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tariq Hammond\u2019s career as an elite hockey player could have ended 3 minutes and 10 seconds into the third period of the biggest game of his career. Seventeen months later, the two men most responsible for getting him back on the ice meet in an exam room. One of them is Dr. Kenneth Hunt<\/a>, a surgeon specializing in foot and ankle orthopedics and the medical director of the UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center<\/a> in Denver\u2019s Stapleton neighborhood. The other is Hammond himself.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-2, 193-pound Hammond was, as the New York Times<\/em> described<\/a> him, the University of Denver\u2019s \u201cmost bruising defender.\u201d On April 8, 2017, with 16:50 left in the third period of the 2017 \u201cFrozen Four\u201d national championship final in Chicago, DU was up 3-1. Its most bruising defender was on the ice. The puck ricocheted into the corner to the left of the DU goalie. Hammond chased it down. A University of Minnesota Duluth player did too. They both went down, with Hammond sliding awkwardly into the boards first. The DU junior\u2019s right ankle bore the brunt. ESPN announcer Barry Melrose winced at the replay: \u201cOooh. That was ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

DU hung on to win its eighth national championship. Hammond came back out to the ice to celebrate, on crutches, his ankle in a boot. Considering the injury, this alone was heroic.<\/p>\n

\"Standing
Standing on force plates in the clinical motion and performance laboratory, Hammond observes real time how his weight is distributed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The doctors at Chicago\u2019s United Center had managed to shift Hammond\u2019s dislocated ankle back into place. They couldn\u2019t fix the broken talus<\/a> bone where the foot and ankle meet. That job would fall to Hunt 10 days later, when the swelling subsided enough to operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a highly severe injury, and the reason I say that is the bone was broken in several places, and the joints connecting that bone to other bones were dislocated,\u201d Hunt said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t just a fracture of the bone. It was a disruption of ligaments and joint linings and dislocations.\u201d It was, he added, the sort of high-energy injury he might see after a car, motorcycle or ski accident.<\/p>\n

To the OR<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The two-hour procedure involved screws, plates and other hardware to hold the various chunks and fragments of Hammond\u2019s talus in their proper places so they could heal. As soon as he could, Hammond started rehabilitation. It involved three to four hours a day in the gym and in the DU training room. Despite Hammond\u2019s ice time being limited to cold packs on his reconstructed ankle, his teammates chose him as their team captain. He was gunning for a return by the official start of training in August. Then came a worrisome scan result. \u201cOne of the fracture lines wasn\u2019t healing as well as we wanted it to,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n

There were two options. One was to let nature take its course, but that would take longer, and there was a risk that the fracture wouldn\u2019t close on its own. The other was to harvest bone from Hammond\u2019s hip, fill in the gap, and secure the fix with more screws. That would boost his chances of playing hockey during his senior season, which would boost his chances of pursuing a dream of his since he was a kid in Calgary: playing in the NHL one day. Hammond chose to do the surgery. It was a setback, but he was skating \u2013 if still a long way from playing hockey \u2013 a month or so later.<\/p>\n

\"Reflectors
Reflectors on Hammond\u2019s ankles and feet are tracked by eight cameras mounted high on the UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center\u2019s clinical motion and performance laboratory walls as he walks across force plates, part of a complex mix of technologies that combine to help diagnose problems related to and emanating from the feet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The season started without him, but on November 17 at DU\u2019s Magness Arena home ice, Hammond made his season debut against North Dakota. The ankle, still sore and yet to fully heal, was strong enough to play on. He played, trained, studied finance and marketing, and rehabbed the ankle through the rest of the season. DU made it to the NCAA quarterfinals in March. Just after that, Hammond, 24, flew to Binghamton, N.Y., for an amateur tryout with the American Hockey League affiliate of NHL\u2019s New Jersey Devils. He played in five games over two weekends in Binghamton, Syracuse and Utica, N.Y.; Hartford, Conn.; and Wilkes-Barre, Penn. Then it was up to the Devils organization whether or not to sign him to a minor-league contract. They did. His one-year deal starts in September.<\/p>\n

Reunion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

In this UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center exam room, Hammond is wearing a DU Hockey ballcap and athletic shirt and Binghamton Devils shorts (he\u2019s headed over to help out at DU coach David Carle\u2019s hockey camp after this appointment). He hasn\u2019t seen Hunt since November. He shares the good news about the contract; the doctor congratulates his patient. The conversation turns to the ankle.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still stiff in the morning or if he\u2019s been sitting a while, Hammond says. Hunt flexes it and says there\u2019s still slightly less range of motion than before the injury, but that the stiffness will improve with time as he keeps rehabbing \u2013 it\u2019s only been a year since the second surgery, after all. There\u2019s no hint of arthritis or bone spurs. Hunt dons a lead vest and drapes one over Hammond. A scan right there in the exam room shows a cluster of screws through ghostly bone. They\u2019ll stay put. \u201cI don\u2019t anticipate you needing any more surgery,\u201d Hunt says. \u201cI don\u2019t think the metal\u2019s ever going to bother you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the ankle could handle it, Hammond tells Hunt he has avoided running (he gets his cardio on the ice or on an exercise bike) and that has made some minor adjustments in the weight room, such as sliding a thin weight below his right heel to avoid over-flexing the ankle in the depths of a set of squats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe best I feel is when I skate,\u201d Hammond says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably a good thing for a hockey player,\u201d Hunt says.<\/p>\n

\"Reflectors
Reflectors on Hammond\u0092s ankles and feet are used to help diagnose problems related to and emanating from the feet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hunt walks Hammond down the hall to the UCHealth Foot and Ankle Center\u2019s latest addition: the clinical motion and performance laboratory. It\u2019s the only facility of its kind in the region, a 1,000-square-foot space dedicated to tracking and measuring dynamic motion and load profiles to assess problems and guide treatment of injuries or chronic conditions associated with (or emanating from) the symphony of 26 bones, 33 joints, more than 100 ligaments, tendons and muscles in the human foot.<\/p>\n

The kinetic chain<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Athletic trainer Danielle Lewis sticks white reflectors the size of cereal puffs to the knuckle above his second toes, the protrusion of his ankle bones, and heels. Eight cameras haloed with bright LEDs high on the walls will track the reflectors as cameras in front of and behind Hammond film his movement. Sara Andrews, the biomedical engineer who leads the clinical motion and performance lab, says some patients will spot reflectors all the way up to the hip. That\u2019s to monitor the influence of foot issues up through the body and vice-versa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can see very accurately their alignment, where they\u2019re putting pressure on their foot during various gait activities, and the ranges of motion on the joints,\u201d Hunt adds. \u201cAnd we can see the influence of the foot and ankle higher on the kinetic chain \u2013 how it impacts, or is impacted by, the knee and hip.\u201d<\/p>\n

On cue, Hammond walks across force plates set up in a vaguely hopscotch pattern and a mat like a hallway runner rug that records the pressure exerted as Hammond strides over it.<\/p>\n

Back in the exam room, Hunt walks though the results. Everything looks fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom an ankle standpoint, you\u2019re clear,\u201d he tells Hammond. Later, Hunt describes Hammond as having a great attitude, with a work ethic that was a big contributor to an outcome that has him back on track to play professional hockey.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s the type of patient that I love taking care of. He\u2019s motivated, he\u2019s very interested in returning to sport, he\u2019s passionate, but he also follows the rules,\u201d Hunt says. \u201cVery level head, very pragmatic, very intelligent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hammond says the New Jersey Devils\u2019 team doctors had been impressed with Hunt\u2019s work. He also appreciates Hunt\u2019s approach outside the OR.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s always up-front and honest with me,\u201d Hammond says. \u201cHe told me, \u2018There\u2019s going to be some things that are different.\u2019 That\u2019s tough to hear, but it helped me get where I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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