Oden has successful surgery

[e_blazer]

To quote Leslie Nealson: "There's a 50-50 chance he'll make a full recovery, but there's only a 25% chance of that happening"


Greg Oden is done folks. If his knees can't handle the stress of getting off the couch and shoot arounds, they can't handle the rigors of the NBA. We've all seen what happens when he tries to play, his knee exploded.

They said the damage to his cartiledge was substantial, like someone took a 9 iron to it.

I know I'm a hopeless Blazers homer, but I guess I prefer to get my estimates of Greg's chances of playing again from a doctor instead of someone who can't spell cartilage or understand that the divot comment about Greg's knee was a description of what the little hole in his cartilage resembled, not that it looked "like someone took a 9 iron to it."

 

[james3921]

To quote Leslie Nealson: "There's a 50-50 chance he'll make a full recovery, but there's only a 25% chance of that happening"


Greg Oden is done folks. If his knees can't handle the stress of getting off the couch and shoot arounds, they can't handle the rigors of the NBA. We've all seen what happens when he tries to play, his knee exploded.

They said the damage to his cartiledge was substantial, like someone took a 9 iron to it.

I like how you spelled the end of cartilage like blazersedge, lol.

 

[MARIS61]

It would have been easier to bump a previous "Oden has successful surgery" thread, rather than start a new one.

Let's keep that in mind next season when it inevitably happens again.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I know I'm a hopeless Blazers homer, but I guess I prefer to get my estimates of Greg's chances of playing again from a doctor instead of someone who can't spell cartilage or understand that the divot comment about Greg's knee was a description of what the little hole in his cartilage resembled, not that it looked "like someone took a 9 iron to it."

Well here you go then, an actual honest to goodness academic research study of MF and recovery expectations.

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/11/study_shows_limits_of_microfac.html

The likelihood of Oden making a strong comeback depends on many factors. The extent of cartilage damage may be the most important. In healthy knees, articular cartilage forms a dense, protective cushion on the bone surfaces that move against each other. The cartilage that grows after microfracture is weaker than the original and can't compensate for extensive damage.

"It really depends on the size of the cartilage injury," said Dr. Brian Feeley, an orthopedic surgeon and assistant professor at the University of California San Francisco who specializes in athletic injuries. "If a player has a small isolated lesion and undergoes microfracture, then they likely will do well. However, if they have a large injury or have a full thickness defect in the setting of surrounding poor cartilage, then they likely will not do as well."

"In reality it probably breaks down to a third do really well, a third do well enough and third don't do well," Mandelbaum said.

And I would say that having had it done prior to his other knee and being able to perform at a reasonably high level (albeit for a very limited amount of time) probably has no bearing on the chances of success of this MF procedure, because we don't know if the two initial defects are of a similar severity.

 

[Sinobas]

I know I'm a hopeless Blazers homer, but I guess I prefer to get my estimates of Greg's chances of playing again from a doctor instead of someone who can't spell cartilage or understand that the divot comment about Greg's knee was a description of what the little hole in his cartilage resembled, not that it looked "like someone took a 9 iron to it."