Kai Trump Undergoes 2nd Wrist Surgery After Injury in 1st Tournament

Q: How did a single cart-path mishap force a high-profile Miami freshman to abandon alternative therapies for another major operation?

A single swing near a hidden cart path appears to have triggered the chain of events that led Kai Trump back to surgery. During her first college tournament for Miami at the Golfweek Fall Challenge in South Carolina, she said her club struck unexpectedly hard ground beneath the grass next to a cart path, sending a “shock” through her arm. She then aggravated the wrist again on a driver swing later in the round. At the time, testing suggested the re-injury was less severe than a full re-tear. Reports said she had only a small new TFCC injury, which initially made non-surgical treatment seem possible. Trump said she planned to use stem cell injections in hopes of speeding recovery and avoiding another operation, especially because she had already undergone left-wrist surgery earlier in the year for ECU tendon and triangular fibrocartilage complex damage. That plan ultimately changed. In her latest update, Trump said that after consulting with her family, coaches and athletic training staff, she decided surgery was the best choice for her long-term health and golf future. She underwent the procedure at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and said it was successful. So the “cart-path mishap” forced the issue by re-injuring an already vulnerable left wrist: what doctors initially thought might be manageable with stem cell therapy proved serious enough that surgery became the safer long-term solution.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 14

19-year-old Kai Trump said a second wrist surgery was successful after she injured her wrist in her first University of Miami golf tournament of the season.
Instagram photos showed her left arm in a cast and sling as she said she chose surgery after consulting family, coaches and athletic training staff.
Hospital for Special Surgery in New York treated the injury, and Trump said recovery will take time before she can return to her team.
The operation follows another wrist surgery about 6 months earlier, which she disclosed in a July "Fox & Friends" appearance before starting her freshman year and Division I golf career.