It figures. No real change to the team physician position. We go from Dr. Clanton to Dr. Lowe, Clanton's former co-worker. I was hoping for a new direction for our team injuries. http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=171645
This is interesting. Steve Francis had his knee surger with Dr. Lowe. Steve tried to rehab for the next season, but he never played again. It looks like the Rockets will lead the league in missed games for several years. http://www.insidehoops.com/francis-knee-surgery-020708.shtml
Doctors are Doctors, players are players. We need to get tougher, less injury prone players. I don't see how anyone can lay blame on doctors for the run we've had....we've just got star players that are pre-disposed to getting hurt.
Yao was considered an iron man the first few seasons. We still have the same doctors/team. What happened? Come on. You can't blame the doctors for us being injury proned. It's like blaming your real-life family doctor for a broken bone or getting the flu.
stop blaming the doctors....this is getting really old...what "new direction" did you want? If someone tears an ACL, how many ways are there to attach it? There's no real "new direction" to come from at the surgical level. It's about how competent they are in surgery, and you dont get to where these guys if you can't do it right...
The season before we got McGrady he played in 67 games. He was damaged goods before we got him. Never seen why people like to blame the team doctors for the Rockets injury ordeals when it's just basically 2 guys who's oft injured.
dr. lowe is a great doctor, physician, and surgeon. he performed my acl reconstruction surgery nearly 2 years ago. i have been playing full contact basketball and football without a knee brace now and i feel great.
It wasn't the same. Clanton became the doctor in 2004 or 2005, before Yao became injury prone. A rash of injuries and surgeries took out Bob Sura, Dion Glover, and Yao Ming.
Well, Lowe did do a better job before Clanton. It seems that he was here in 1993-2003. Clanton took over for 2004-2009
I wondered why in the world any doctor would not want to be a team physician (in particular the NBA). Thanks to clutchfans, i now understand...
LOL at anybody throwing a fit over this. If you think this affects our players injury prevention or rehab, you are wrong. Dr. Lowe just operates, then hands them back to the team for rehab. Dr. Lowe is a great guy, I've actually been around him a few times. He's part of the reason guys like Cedric Killings and Harry Williams of the Texans were able to walk again after devastating neck injuries.
