Roy to have arthroscopic surgery on both knees

[santeesioux]

PDXjay Jay Allen 95.5
The Blazers are expected to make an announcement today about Brandon Roy's knees. I'm told he may have arthroscopic surgery on both knees.
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PDXjay Jay Allen 95.5
The hope is that Brandon would be back on the court in 4 to 8 wks. #Blazers
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[Nikolokolus]

Meh

 

[Shooter]

Does this mean he's getting the meniscus transplant?

 

[MIXUM]

so the hope is they get him back for march and playoffs to come off bench?

in other news....

 

[Nikolokolus]

Does this mean he's getting the meniscus transplant?

Nope. It was decided he wasn't a good candidate for meniscal transplant.

 

[Shooter]

Nope. It was decided he wasn't a good candidate for meniscal transplant.

So how will arthroscopic surgery help?

 

[RoyToy]

I still find it interesting in the other thread that they only mentioned him being only bone-on-bone in the left knee.

Cole is of the opinion that meniscus transplant surgery on Roy, who has had a pair of lateral meniscus operations and is at the bone-on-bone stage with the left knee

We'll see what happens. I'm sure it'll help in the short-term I suppose.

 

[blue32]

What is this surgery going to do? Anyone know? Basically how is it going to help?

 

[MAS RipCity]

here's the official PR-
Press Release

here's the video on an interview just done with B-Roy:
Interview With Roy

 

[alex42083]

To have all these surgeries (on both knees) can't be a good thing, but at least they've come to some kind of 'solution' -- if you call it that. Hopefully he can return healthy, or just show glimpses of the old B-Roy -- even if it's in limited doses. Can't be any worse than what we saw from him.

 

[craigehlo]

Start the countdown to medical retirement...

 

[THE HCP]

I would love to know how this will help the meniscus.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I would love to know how this will help the meniscus.

It won't

 

[THE HCP]

Wow, now that is disheartening.

 

[e_blazer]

I would love to know how this will help the meniscus.

It won't help the meniscus, but cleaning up the knee may reduce inflammation and let him play with less pain. This isn't a cure. Just an attempt to give Brandon a bit longer of a career.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Roy and his knees to be interviewed at 2pm on 95.5 the game

 

[Mediocre Man]

I would love to know how this will help the meniscus.

I thought I read somewhere this mornig that it wouldn't help. The only thing it will do is relieve some of the pain he is having.

 

[hasoos]

I hope the best for the guy, but it isn't lookin good.

 

[BlazerBeav]

Well better than sitting around wishing the problem away. Maybe it will be able to get him back out there.

 

[hasoos]

One thing to think about is the name of a surgery. Remember folks Arthrocopic surgery isn't always about repair. Arthroscopic surgery is exploratory so they can look in there and see what is going on directly instead of using images. There have been many times in the past, where a player was having pain in their knee, and imaging wasn't showing anything. But when they did a arthrocopic surgery, they found something (bone chip, etc) and corrected it. It's not all about cutting for the sake of cutting.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Roy is still having pain and swelling in his knees. He is having the scope to see if there are burrs causing the problems or if it's arthritis. If after the knees are scoped and the swelling and pain go away then he will look into the meniscus replacement surgery. But if he still has some pain and swelling then he will know it is arthritis, that meniscus replacement surgery is not an option and then he will just have to suck it up and play.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

This is mainly to relieve pain in his knees.

Unfortunately it will not bring back his explosiveness. The Roy we saw this earlier this year is what we'll likely see when he returns from this surgery, only in less pain.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Roy is still having pain and swelling in his knees. He is having the scope to see if there are burrs causing the problems or if it's arthritis. If after the knees are scoped and the swelling and pain go away then he will look into the meniscus replacement surgery. But if he still has some pain and swelling then he will know it is arthritis, that meniscus replacement surgery is not an option and then he will just have to suck it up and play.

Good info. was that from Roy?

 

[e_blazer]

Roy is still having pain and swelling in his knees. He is having the scope to see if there are burrs causing the problems or if it's arthritis. If after the knees are scoped and the swelling and pain go away then he will look into the meniscus replacement surgery. But if he still has some pain and swelling then he will know it is arthritis, that meniscus replacement surgery is not an option and then he will just have to suck it up and play.

What I read in Kerry Egger's column yesterday was that the doctor they consulted said it wasn't an option in Brandon's case. Have you read something different?

Roy and team officials flew to the Bay Area last Thursday to meet with Dr. Brian Cole, the team doctor of the Chicago Bulls and one of the world’s foremost experts on articular cartilage repair.

Cole is of the opinion that meniscus transplant surgery on Roy, who has had a pair of lateral meniscus operations and is at the bone-on-bone stage with the left knee, is not an option. Cole offered the possibility that an arthroscopic procedure, however, might relieve some of the pain.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Good info. was that from Roy?

Yes! I was doing a Mixum and reading between the lines.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What I read in Kerry Egger's column yesterday was that the doctor they consulted said it wasn't an option in Brandon's case. Have you read something different?

Pure speculation, I just dress it up better than most.

 

[Blazinaway]

Start the countdown to medical retirement...

Yep, that's the real "process" that this is very likely a step of

 

[Blazinaway]

I would love to know how this will help the meniscus.

They are hoping it "might" help with the articular cartilage and bone area where there may be fragments or spurs that are causing some swelling and irritation - a near term bandaid at best IMO

 

[TripTango]

Portland: where young people go to retire.

Sigh.

 

[Kaydow]

Roy is still having pain and swelling in his knees. He is having the scope to see if there are burrs causing the problems or if it's arthritis. If after the knees are scoped and the swelling and pain go away then he will look into the meniscus replacement surgery. But if he still has some pain and swelling then he will know it is arthritis, that meniscus replacement surgery is not an option and then he will just have to suck it up and play.

This has to be it. I mean, there is no cartilage in his knee to scope! (what's the point?) I guess we hope it's bone spurs?