LOS ANGELES, CA – Golfer Tiger Woods, who suffered a car accident near Los Angeles on Tuesday, underwent “long” surgery for injuries to his foot, ankle, tibia and fibula. right, reported his communications team on his official Twitter account.
“(Woods) has undergone lengthy surgery on his lower right leg and ankle after being taken to hospital,” Woods’ team said in a statement on the social network.
In this paper, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Medical Director and Acting Executive Director Anish Mahajan explained that Woods “suffered significant orthopedic injuries to his lower right limb that were treated during an emergency surgery by specialists. in orthopedic traumatology “.
According to Mahajan, comminute open fractures, when the bone breaks into two or more fragments, which affected both the upper and lower tibia and the bones of the Woods fibula “stabilized by inserting a rod in the tibia “.
“Additional injuries to the bones of the foot and ankle were stabilized with a combination of screws and pins. Muscle trauma and soft tissue in the leg required surgical release of the muscle cover to relieve pressure due to inflammation, ”Mahajan detailed.
Following the medical analysis, Woods’ team said the golfer is currently “awake, receptive and recovering in his hospital room.”
Woods suffered a traffic accident in the early hours of the morning – at approximately 07:00 local time (15.00 GMT on Tuesday) in Rancho Palos Verdes, a small town near Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva explained that all indications are that Woods was traveling “at high speed” down a steep, downhill slope, although investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
“It was going at a relatively higher speed than normal. Because it is downhill, inclined and also curves, this area has a high frequency of accidents. It is not uncommon,” Villanueva said at a press conference on Tuesday.
Woods, 45, was in the area to play the annual Genesis Invitational golf tournament at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades, near Santa Monica, Los Angeles, according to TMZ magazine.
Woods is one of the most successful golfers of all time, with a record 683 weeks at number one in the world, most recently from March 2013 to May 2014.
The Cypress, California-born golfer has won the Augusta Masters on five occasions; three the U.S. Open; and three more at the British Open, among other titles on his list.
The crash, which only involved Woods ’vehicle, occurred Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 7:12 a.m. between Rolling Hills Estates and Rancho Palos Verdes. The car crossed lanes, crashed into a sidewalk, a tree and then overturned several times.
The athlete was the only person in the car, who suffered serious injuries.
The airbags were deployed and the interior of the car remained basically intact and this “gave him a mattress to survive the crash,” said Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Weather in Villanueva.
Both legs were seriously injured, added county fire chief Daryl Osby.
Initially, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office said on Twitter that Eldrick “Tiger” Woods was removed by paramedics and firefighters from the wreckage of the act and taken by ambulance to a hospital.
Initially, his manager, Mark Steinberg, said in a statement that the athlete was being operated on for leg injuries. “Tiger Woods had a car accident this morning in California, where he suffered multiple leg injuries.”
He added that “we thank you for your privacy and support.”
Scenes taken from a helicopter showed the car sideways with the front badly damaged and remnants of parts around.
The crash will be investigated by officers from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office at Lomita Station. The results are expected to take several weeks.
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Woods was in Los Angeles over the weekend to host the Genesis Invitational tournament in Riviera, where he presented the trophy. He would spend Monday and Tuesday filming with Discovery-owned GOLFTV, with whom he has a sponsorship deal. A tweet on Monday showed him in a smiling cart with David Spade.
According to Golf Digest, also owned by Discovery, the TV session consisted of lessons on the course for celebrities such as Spade and Dwyane Wade. He didn’t play.
The 15-time senior champion last played in the December 20 PNC Championship with his 11-year-old son, Charlie. He had a fifth surgery on his back, a microdiscectomy, two days before Christmas and gave no indication of when he would return. The Masters is April 8-11 and when asked if he would be there during the CBS broadcast, Woods replied, “God, I hope so.”
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This is the third time Woods has been involved in a car investigation. The most notorious was the morning after Thanksgiving in 2009, when his SUV hit a fire hydrant and crashed into a tree.
This was the beginning of shocking revelations that he had been cheating on his wife with several women. Woods lost significant corporate sponsorship, went to a rehab clinic in Mississippi and did not return to golf for five months.
In May 2017, Florida police found him asleep behind the wheel of a clumsily parked car on the side of the road. He was arrested on a DUI charge and later said he had an unexpected reaction to prescription drugs for his back pain.
Woods later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and registered with a clinic for help with prescription drugs and a sleep disorder.