In case you were wondering, from Wikipedia:
So, problem number 1 - this is an injury diagnosed by a French Gynecologist after cutting someone's foot off during the Napoleonic Wars. That's fucked.
Looks like it could be, at worst, a 4 month treatment/recovery period. Unless I'm reading that wrong.
The Lisfranc injury...is an injury of the foot in which one or more of the metatarsal bones are displaced from the tarsus. This type of injury is named after Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin (2 April 1790–13 May 1847), a French surgeon and gynecologist who first described the injury in 1815, after the War of the Sixth Coalition.
So, problem number 1 - this is an injury diagnosed by a French Gynecologist after cutting someone's foot off during the Napoleonic Wars. That's fucked.
Options include operative or non-operative treatment. If the dislocation is less than 2 mm, the fracture can be managed with casting for six weeks. The patient's injured limb cannot bear weight during this period. For severe Lisfranc injuries, open reduction with internal fixation (ORIF) and temporary screw or Kirschner wire (K-wire) fixation is the treatment of choice. The foot cannot be allowed to bear weight for a minimum of six weeks. Partial weight-bearing may then begin, with full weight bearing after an additional several weeks, depending on the specific injury. K-wires are typically removed after six weeks, before weight bearing, while screws are often removed after 12 weeks.
When a Lisfranc injury is characterized by significant displacement of the tarsometatarsal joint(s), nonoperative treatment often leads to severe loss of function and long-term disability secondary to chronic pain and sometimes to a planovalgus deformity. In cases with severe pain, loss of function, or progressive deformity that has failed to respond to nonoperative treatment, mid-tarsal and tarsometatarsal arthrodesis (operative fusion of the bones) may be indicated.
Looks like it could be, at worst, a 4 month treatment/recovery period. Unless I'm reading that wrong.