SI.com: Oden/Amare Article

[fordronken]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/ian_thomsen/09/14/stoudemire.oden/index.html

 

[fordronken]

Good article. It's nice to hear Nelson give a full breakdown of the way the surgery and rehab work.

 

[Cheesebeef]

it is really amazing to see what Amare accomplished coming off this surgery. Good luck to Oden.

 

[mribnik]

How come nobody ever mentions Kevin Johnson when they talk about microfracture surgery? Didn't he have it in the off-season one year and come back to start the regular season just fine?

Also, is Oden's problem on the weight-bearing part of the knee like Amare's was?

 

[CardNots]

How come nobody ever mentions Kevin Johnson when they talk about microfracture surgery? Didn't he have it in the off-season one year and come back to start the regular season just fine?

Also, is Oden's problem on the weight-bearing part of the knee like Amare's was?

I'm really not sure about KJ having microfracture surgery and he certainly would not have come back that soon.

 

[playstation]

"The [moral] is that Stoudemire, now 24, proved during his rehab to be a more mature and disciplined athlete than his reputation would suggest."

LOL

so does this mean they think amare won't need future microfractures because he corrected the bodily problem that led to the issue?

in other words, does the fibrocartilege naturally deteriorate over 5 years or does that deterioration occur because of the continuation of poor bodily mechanics?

also...good god, they had to teach him how to WALK properly? i find it amazing that he's putting up 20/10, then going to practice and having these people teach him the finer points of WALKING lol

 

[mribnik]

I'm really not sure about KJ having microfracture surgery and he certainly would not have come back that soon.

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/50365

But Johnson underwent an unpublicized microfracture procedure in the early 1990s and then enjoyed outstanding success, said Dr. Richard Emerson, the former Suns doctor who helped perform the operations on the two players.

Johnson’s operation was successful even though microfracture was considered more of an exotic procedure in the early 1990s (Emerson isn’t sure what year the operation took place).

Johnson’s surgery was performed after the Suns bowed out of the playoffs, and he didn’t miss any time the next season.

"It worked well," Emerson said. "He was very motivated."

 

[playstation]

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/50365

But Johnson underwent an unpublicized microfracture procedure in the early 1990s and then enjoyed outstanding success, said Dr. Richard Emerson, the former Suns doctor who helped perform the operations on the two players.

Johnson’s operation was successful even though microfracture was considered more of an exotic procedure in the early 1990s (Emerson isn’t sure what year the operation took place).

Johnson’s surgery was performed after the Suns bowed out of the playoffs, and he didn’t miss any time the next season.

"It worked well," Emerson said. "He was very motivated."

from that same article:

"However, microfracture is not a long-term solution because the surgery does not create true cartilage.

"There’s a three- to fiveyear time frame before it starts to deteriorate, but hopefully with this procedure we’re helping to ****** that natural progression," Emerson said."

this is the part that is really scary. by the time the season starts, it will have already been 2.5 years for amare, and that is what precipitated the last question i posted

 

[playstation]

i think i have my answer:

next time this happens, screw microfracture. we're going to have better ways to solve the problem:

http://www.mensjournal.com/healthFitness/0511/surgery_knee.html

THAT'S what i'm talking about. that's reason in itself for any suns fan to also be a fan of stemcell research.

 

[asudevil83]

from that same article:

"However, microfracture is not a long-term solution because the surgery does not create true cartilage.

"There’s a three- to fiveyear time frame before it starts to deteriorate, but hopefully with this procedure we’re helping to ****** that natural progression," Emerson said."

this is the part that is really scary. by the time the season starts, it will have already been 2.5 years for amare, and that is what precipitated the last question i posted

i want to say that by correcting the problem that lead to micro-fracture in the first place, a player can last longer.

i'd imagine that if amare's trainers had not gone deeper into the root cause of the cartilage deterioration, then he'd need more surgury down the road.

 

[cly2tw]

"The [moral] is that Stoudemire, now 24, proved during his rehab to be a more mature and disciplined athlete than his reputation would suggest."

LOL

so does this mean they think amare won't need future microfractures because he corrected the bodily problem that led to the issue?

in other words, does the fibrocartilege naturally deteriorate over 5 years or does that deterioration occur because of the continuation of poor bodily mechanics?

also...good god, they had to teach him how to WALK properly? i find it amazing that he's putting up 20/10, then going to practice and having these people teach him the finer points of WALKING lol

Not sure what you are loud laughing at. Do you know how to walk properly? The fact that one can walk from point A to point B without breaking a foot or getting a knee injury means nothing in this regard. Many hikers get their knees more or less destroyed because they don't know how to properly walk down-hill.

As to Amare, the higher and more powerful he rises for posterizing dunks, the more damage he does to his knees if he is not walking and particularly landing properly. And he used to move, jump, and land too much on almost straight legs, so that his knee cartelage became the victim of his own power. Kobe and MJ rise with comparable force for dunks but they do so, and land, on bent knees.

For regular guys, the damage from improper walking accummulate only slowly over tens of years, so that they could lauph at professional athlets for the same issue as they suffer the implication sooner due to the extreme requirement of their trade. Quite funny, right?

 

[playstation]

Not sure what you are loud laughing at. Do you know how to walk properly? The fact that one can walk from point A to point B without breaking a foot or getting a knee injury means nothing in this regard. Many hikers get their knees more or less destroyed because they don't know how to properly walk down-hill.

As to Amare, the higher and more powerful he rises for posterizing dunks, the more damage he does to his knees if he is not walking and particularly landing properly. And he used to move, jump, and land too much on almost straight legs, so that his knee cartelage became the victim of his own power. Kobe and MJ rise with comparable force for dunks but they do so, and land, on bent knees.

For regular guys, the damage from improper walking accummulate only slowly over tens of years, so that they could lauph at professional athlets for the same issue as they suffer the implication sooner due to the extreme requirement of their trade. Quite funny, right?

ease up and check yoself befo you rek yoself

i don't enjoy condescension, patronizing and presuppositions, especially when they are erroneous.

i find it funny that walking, an art that is ***SEEMINGLY*** easy, turns out to not be so. thank you for not understanding and choosing instead to simply attack me, i really appreciate it.

 

[YouJustGotSUNSD]

All physical rehabilitation therapy involves re-learning how to co-exist with your new encumbrance.