FOX5 Exclusive: NFL Player Found Unconscious Oakland Raiders Player In Fair Condition POSTED: 4:38 pm PDT June 16, 2008 UPDATED: 5:32 pm PDT June 16, 2008 LAS VEGAS -- NFL wide receiver Javon Walker was found unconscious on East Flamingo Road and Koval Lane Monday morning, Metro police said. The Oakland Raiders player was taken to Sunrise Medical Center?s Trauma unit, where he was listed in fair condition late Monday afternoon, hospital officials said. Police said Walker had an orbital fracture. They said they are not sure how he received the fracture. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Walker was seen Saturday night at Tryst at the Wynn spraying the crowd with some of the 15 bottles of Dom Perignon Rose champagne he ordered. http://www.fox5vegas.com/news/166245...020306162008#-
looks like the season is over for the Raiders before it even began, eh Jeaux? hopefully Walker is okay though.
Eye-Socket Fracture (Fracture Of The Orbit) By Harvard Health Publications Posted: Mon., Jul. 31, 2006 , 9:08 pm EDT What Is It? The eye socket is a bony cup that surrounds and protects the eye. The rim of the socket is made of fairly thick bones, while the floor of the socket is paper thin in many places. A fracture is a broken bone in the eye socket involving the rim, the floor or both. * Orbital rim fracture ? These are caused by a direct impact to the face, most commonly by an automobile dashboard or steering wheel during a car crash. Because a great deal of force is required to cause these fractures, they often occur with extensive injuries to other facial bones, and sometimes injuries to the brain. Even if the damage is limited to the eye area, there may be additional injuries to the eye itself, such as the optic nerve (responsible for vision), the eye muscles, the nerves that provide sensation in the forehead and cheek, the sinuses around the eye and the tear duct. There are two types of orbital rim fractures. A zygomatic fracture involves the lower edge of the eye rim, which is part of the cheekbone. A frontal bone fracture or frontal sinus fracture involves the upper edge of the eye rim, which is part of the forehead's frontal bone. * Indirect orbital floor fracture ("blowout fracture") ? This occurs when the bony rim of the eye remains intact, but the paper-thin floor of the eye socket cracks or ruptures. This can cause a small hole in the floor of the eye socket that can trap parts of the eye muscles and surrounding structures. The injured eye may not move normally in its socket, which can cause double vision. Most blowout fractures are caused by an impact to the front of the eye from something bigger than the eye opening, such as a baseball, a fist or an automobile dashboard. * Direct orbital floor fracture ? If an orbital rim fracture extends into nearby parts of the eye socket floor, both the rim and the socket floor are fractured. Approximately 2.5 million traumatic eye injuries, including eye socket fractures, occur each year in the United States. About 85% of these injuries happen by accident, during contact sports, at work, in car crashes or while performing home repair projects. About 15% are caused by violent assaults. Men suffer from traumatic eye injuries about four times more often than women do. The average age of the injured person is about 30. The source of the injury is usually a blunt object ? baseball, hammer, rock, piece of lumber ? and the most frequent place of injury is the home. At one time, eye injuries were common in motor vehicle accidents, usually when a victim's face struck the dashboard. Such eye injuries have decreased dramatically because more cars have airbags, and most states have laws mandating the use of seat belts. Symptoms Symptoms vary, depending on the location and severity of the fracture, but can include: * A black eye, with swelling and black and blue discoloration around the injured eye; possible redness and areas of bleeding on the white of the eye and on the inner lining of the eyelids * Double vision, decreased vision or blurry vision * Difficulty looking up, down, right or left * Abnormal position of the eye (either bulging out of its socket or sunken in) * Numbness in the forehead, eyelids, cheek, upper lip or upper teeth on the same side as the injured eye, possibly related to nerve damage caused by the fracture * A puffy accumulation of air under the skin near the eye, usually a sign that the fracture has broken through the wall of a sinus cavity, particularly the maxillary sinus, an air filled chamber located inside the cheek below the eye * Swelling and deformity of the cheek or forehead, with an obvious dent over the area of broken bone * An abnormally flat looking cheek, and possibly severe pain in the cheek when you attempt to open your mouth Diagnosis If you are conscious and able to answer questions after your injury, your doctor will review your symptoms and ask how your eye injury occurred. He or she will examine your eye, and will gently touch and press on your cheek and forehead to check if these areas are distorted. The doctor also will check for: * Whether you can look upward, downward or sideways ? If your doctor suspects that one of your eye muscles has become trapped in the fracture site, he or she may grasp the tendon of your eye muscle and attempt to rotate the eye by hand. * Changes in vision, especially double vision * Areas of numbness in your forehead, eyelids, cheek, upper lip and upper teeth * Internal damage ? Your doctor will look inside your eye with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope to check for signs of internal damage. If the examination suggests you have an eye socket fracture, the doctor will confirm the diagnosis with X-rays or a computed tomography (CT) scan of the area around your eye. In someone who is unconscious and has severe facial injuries, doctors can confirm the diagnosis of an eye socket fracture with X-rays and a CT scan of the eye socket bones. This is done after any life-threatening injuries have been addressed and the person's condition has stabilized. Expected Duration How long the injury lasts depends on the location and severity of the fracture. In most cases, swelling and discoloration begin to go away within seven to 10 days after the injury, but fractured bones take much longer to heal. If surgery is necessary to repair the injured area, your doctor may delay the procedure for several weeks to allow swelling to go away.
Yeah, I've always liked him. Although he's always been either overrated or underrated as a player..nowhere in the middle. :lol: Hope he gets better.
He was either so drunk he passed out before he hit the ground and fell on his face full force or somebody cracked him one (ugh). The fact that he was found in the morning? Sheese, hopefully nobody knowingly LEFT him there like that. Crazy. Gave me the creeps either way.
they said he could be a robbery attempt heres the link http://www.nfl.com/news/story?id=09000d5d808deb68&template=without-video&confirm=true
I can't imagine any way he broke the orbital in a fall unless it was awful far, like a high balcaony in a 2 floor room.
You'd think somebody who's been through the shit that guy has would just go home after practice and read a book.
ha ha you would think wouldnt you? but then again all we know is that the police believe it may be a robbery. So his activities that night prior to the robbery might have nothing to do with it and it might have happened anyways... So hopefully Walker is going to be all right
I had a friend that had that injury. It took forever to heal. He is old enough and been through enough that he shouldn't be flashing money like that. 15 Bottles of Dom at a club like that costs 4 grand.
Probably the only thing that could have been worst, than this situation.(for raider fans) Is if they found Jamarcus Russell unconscious at the all you can eat Buffet.
First off Javon Walker was reported to be flashing the money on Saturday night. HE was found Monday morning unconscious. So I don't know if the situations are related. Only time will tell what happened . Could have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
