The season ending injury was a dislocated hip and posterior wall fracture. While not totally uncommon, this is a serious injury normally seen in people that have had a bad car accident when their knee hits the dash of a vehicle and drives the femur into the hip, causing both the dislocation and normally a fracture or a break of some kind.
Tagovailoa did suffer an early complication when it was reported that he had a posterior wall fracture. Two days following the initial accident
Tua was operated on in Houston, Texas by Dr. Chip Routt, a specialist in Ortho surgery specializing in trauma and pelvic and or hip socket fractures. there were
no blood flow or cartilage issues as a result of the injury or the surgeries. Right before the 2020
NFL Combine Tua received an MRI that showed that he had none of these issues. This allowed him to intensify his rehab.
His doctor, Cain, stated that you could be more than happy with what was seen in the previous MRI alone The only hurdle left, as seen by his various doctors, is to get himself back into
playing shape which might take him a while