Dane Swan’s career-ending foot and ankle injury
It was with much sadness this year that Swan’s career came to an early end after suffering a Lisfranc injury to the mid foot, along with an ankle fracture. The injury was first described by Napoleon Bonaparte’s surgeon, Jacques Lisfranc de St Martin, who gave his name to the joints and injury of the mid foot. Trauma to the mid foot was common in the Napoleonic Wars, when horsemen…