Injury-Duty Report: Josh Koscheck’s Broken Face:Fortunately the floor (the maxilla) of the eye-socket and the medial wall (the side closest to the nose; made up of the ethmoid and lacrimal bones) both sit directly above a sort of air-sac (the maxillary and ethmoid sinuses; figure G), and when the pressure becomes too great- BAM!

The doc should have known better, and Dana White needs to keep this type of thing from happening in the future.Well said Archie, as much of a douche as Kos is, that fight should have been stopped.Koscheck’s Eye Injury Forces Him On The Do Not Fly List,Breaking Down UFC 133: The Main Event Rashad Evans Vs Tito Ortiz. Eye-lid malpositioning, especially lower-lid retraction7. Sinus disease, especially sinusitis.Something simple like a valsalva maneuver (attempting to forcibly exhale while keeping the mouth and nose closed), which happens during simple actions like blowing your nose, sneezing, or baring down (like when you’re about to brace yourself before being hit), all of that pressure that normally would drain into the nasal cavity and out of your nose, has a new place to go- you guessed it, across the breaks in the orbit and around/behind the eye (figure H). The ring side doctor was thinking of calling the fight after the third round, but he obviously decided to let the fight go.We are now finding out it is in fact a broken orbital bone, and its bad. Infraorbital nerve dysfunction (if an orbital floor repair was done)6. Epistaxis (nosebleed) or cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage in medial wall repairs9.

Implant infection, migration, or extrusion8. We last saw Josh getting repeatedly left jabbed for 25 minutes, in front of a 23,152 Canadians in Montreal, by champion Georges St. Pierre. During the UFC Fight Club Q&A, Joe Rogan answers a fan's question about whether or not Josh Koscheck was faking an eye injury during his fight … Persistent diplopia (double vision)3. Infection that presents as orbital cellulitis5. For the short-term this is great for your eye, because now the blood vessels, nerves and muscles are not getting pinched off (which could obviously lead to all sorts of badness, including death of tissues). Since flying home to San Jose wasn’t possible, the UFC arranged for Koscheck and trainer Bob Cook to drive to Boston. “We’ll get it checked down there. Josh Koscheck had to deal with virtually no vision in his right eye during his UFC 124 main event performance against Georges St-Pierre, and now we know why. We last saw Josh getting repeatedly left jabbed for 25 minutes, in front of a 23,152 Canadians in Montreal, by champion Georges St. Pierre.From my fight experience, I know what a broken orbital bone looks like, and you can usually tell because the swelling starts QUICKLY! Josh is expected to undergo surgery Monday or Tuesday.“We’re going to have a much better sense of the injury when we get to the States,” Cook told Josh Gross of ESPN. According to his trainer Bob Cook, Kos suffered a broken orbital bone, “We’re going to have a much better sense of the injury when we get to the States,” Cook said. Aug 29, 2012 - Spirit was not the only thing Josh Koscheck broke at UFC 124. With continued trauma (punches, knees etc.) So bad, that when doctors reviewed the injury, they found an air pocket behind his eye, and let him know he shouldn’t be flying. Showing the world he’s keeping a sense of humor, Josh Koscheck tweeted this picture of the aftermath of his eye injury with the caption, “Enjoy this picture. Globe malpositioning (eye not in correct position)4. Right after round 1, you could tell Koscheck’s eye socket was smashed. Koscheck’s Eye Injury Forces Him On The Do Not Fly List Added on Dec 14, 2010 by John Petit in . Boom son.” Koscheck suffered a broken orbital and was driven to Boston, Massachusetts by his training partner, Bob Cook to have surgery. The bad news, this pressure-relief system doesn’t have an off-switch. Blindness2.