Greg Oden?

[maxiep]

I can't prove it but I feel they are right. Did Oden ever get evaluated by someone not on the Blazers medical/training staff after the Magette incident?

I have no idea. I do know that when bones fracture before the age of 25, they generally heal stronger at that point than they were before.

 

[kobeownslebron]

I think it will take hom a while to be back a 100 %. Probably around January he'll be 100 %.

 

[Idog1976]

I have no idea. I do know that when bones fracture before the age of 25, they generally heal stronger at that point than they were before.

But did he get enough time to heal it? I felt like he came back too soon and he was SOO slow during the Houston series (Remember that bricked dunk near the end of game 6?) like something was still wrong. They he went nuts training with Bayno that summer, which would have been ideal were he healthy. I know it IS possible to break a kneecap due to beasting out with monster quads, I just intuitively feel it was that same Magette injury. On the plus side he's had plenty of time to heal since this last one. Oh and he needs to

WEAR SOME GOD DAMNED KNEE PADS! If Magette can wear a metal knee brace (is that even true?) then GO should be able to wear steel greaves over his shins and knees.

 

[espn_hall_of_famer]

Do you know that for sure or are you just speculating? It looks like a SWAG to me.

If you're asking for insider information, I don't have that.

But I do have enough knowledge on the injury to know that he had a collision a year earlier with Maggette that was located at precisely the same location in which the patella fractured but was just called a "chip". The fracture that happened didn't happen with contact, but with pressure asserted from to the tendon while lunging down to jump. While he's big and strong, the pressure needed to snap a patella on a world-class 20 year old athlete is incredible, and the traditionally it could only happen with some type of fatigue to the bone through disease or Osteoporosis, or a previous injury that fatigued the bone and never healed correctly. This is 2010 and I can tell you with 100% certainty that it not the genetics issue (like Bill Walton and other athletes back in the days prior to modern medicine being able to rule that out). So it really isn't too much of a SWAG to know what could have weakened the bone, especially since there is evidence of the two injuries showing them in the same location.

 

[RoyToy]

I can't prove it but I feel they are right. Did Oden ever get evaluated by someone not on the Blazers medical/training staff after the Magette incident?

Indeed they did.

It was one week into the injury, and the team sent his MRI to Dr. James Andrews, a renowned specialist in Alabama. Andrews came to the same conclusion as the Blazers doctors: No surgery was needed and rest and rehabilitation were the best course of action.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2009/03/blazers_greg_oden_is_fed_up_an.html


If you read the whole article you get a pretty good idea what the injury was like. I forgot how serious that injury was.

 

[Nikolokolus]

If you're asking for insider information, I don't have that.

But I do have enough knowledge on the injury to know that he had a collision a year earlier with Maggette that was located at precisely the same location in which the patella fractured but was just called a "chip". The fracture that happened didn't happen with contact, but with pressure asserted from to the tendon while lunging down to jump. While he's big and strong, the pressure needed to snap a patella on a world-class 20 year old athlete is incredible, and the traditionally it could only happen with some type of fatigue to the bone through disease or Osteoporosis, or a previous injury that fatigued the bone and never healed correctly. This is 2010 and I can tell you with 100% certainty that it not the genetics issue (like Bill Walton and other athletes back in the days prior to modern medicine being able to rule that out). So it really isn't too much of a SWAG to know what could have weakened the bone, especially since there is evidence of the two injuries showing them in the same location.

It's all speculation, but if the fracture to his patella had been a hairline or "stress" fracture it's possible that there wouldn't been enough trauma to the bone to trigger a proper healing response (like you get with a greenstick or comminuted fracture).

The fact is we'll probably never know what caused his kneecap to explode, all we can do is cross our fingers that he doesn't have some heretofore undiagnosed predisposition to fractures and fragile bones.