Ava Jones update?
- Thread starter twindman
- Start date
Amy Jones
Ava continues to work hard at physical, occupational and speech therapy and is showing improvement in all. She may even start back to school next week on a very modified schedule to allow her to acclimate and continue her therapy.
Creek is doing well and enjoying school and flag football. Hunter is taking a full schedule at Pitt State and doing fall conditioning for the track team.
I am getting stronger every day. The neck brace and picc line are gone and 20 out of 21 bones are healed. But unfortunately my right tibia has not healed and will require surgery before I can walk on it. So I will be confined to the wheelchair for a few more months.
Ava continues to work hard at physical, occupational and speech therapy and is showing improvement in all. She may even start back to school next week on a very modified schedule to allow her to acclimate and continue her therapy.
Creek is doing well and enjoying school and flag football. Hunter is taking a full schedule at Pitt State and doing fall conditioning for the track team.
I am getting stronger every day. The neck brace and picc line are gone and 20 out of 21 bones are healed. But unfortunately my right tibia has not healed and will require surgery before I can walk on it. So I will be confined to the wheelchair for a few more months.
Thanks Suter, please keep us up whenever you can.
Speaking to the university's Presidential Committee on Athletics on Thursday, Lisa told them that it is unlikely Ava Jones will play basketball again. I wish she had not said that publicly and I hope she is wrong.
Wish she would have shown a little optimism. You never know what will happen.
Might have been the context of how the question was asked, plus that's probably not exactly how Lisa worded her resonse.
Absolutely nothing wrong with what Bluder said. It is accurate. Bluder said it's unlikely. The odds of Ava playing basketball at a competitive level again are probably a billion to one. It's very hard to return from an injury involving one ligament, let alone all of them in both knees. When you tear all four ligaments, even with a successful repair there's going to be loss of range of motion and instability in the knee. Medical science has come a long way but likely not far enough.
Ava is going to have a long recovery just to be able to walk again let alone run or play sports competitively.
I do hope she comes to Iowa as Iowa will honor her scholarship. And I hope the coaching staff and athletic support staff take her under their wing and help her succeed and graduate. Perhaps the coaching staff will even mentor her to coach as they've done with other athletes who've been injured. She sounds like a great kid with a great attitude and I hope something good will come of such a terrible tragedy.
Don't believe there is any risk of cognitive deficiencies at this point. Those are things that would have likely presented by now. She came out of her coma alert and oriented and she has given interviews. Nothing in any of the articles mentioned any neurological deficits.
But she's probably facing limited mobility and chronic pain issues for the rest of her life. Increased risk of arthritis and osteoporosis. And if they had to put any hardware in her neck and/or back she'll likely need more surgeries later in life as many people experience pain issues down the road after having discs fused together.
There is a great risk and worry about permanent cognitive issues going forward. She is still undergoing speech and physical therapy as she tries to re-learn basic motor skills (walking, sitting up, speaking) and the longer those things take to come back the less likely they will come back to the level they were before the accident.
You do realize there is a difference between neurological issues and cognitive issues. She suffered a spinal injury so of course her body is going to need to relearn how to do things as neural pathways have to be reformed.
It would be a cognitive issue if she didn't understand words or couldn't respond to basic stimuli. Her brain function is fine, but her neurological function is impaired due to the injury. And it is possible that she could have permanent neurological deficits. However, physical and occupational therapy and neurological science has come along way in very short time so I'm optimistic for her recovery.
Similar threads
