you suspect wrongly, It is clearly documented that the suns tried to treat this injury the correct way with rest and light activity. Numerous articles have said the suns knew of the injury. Not a single person runs to a surgeon when they feel pain in a joint. Surgical therapy is used when all nonsurgical options are exhausted. As a player for an NBA team one has to go to the team doc for all problems...obviously he did that. You can't just walk into a surgeons office one week after signing of a contract and say "Hi I'm here, would you like to cut on me" So the assertion that amare was holding out or hiding his injury is asinine and just imaturity by a number of posters who hate this guy for "stealing the ROY" (like he snuck into an office and changed votes) or hate him for laughin at Yao...(that wasn't right on Amare's part) but I bet you everyother player in the NBA watching it on sportscenter was laughing as well. Whatever happens the NBA is poorer for it but the rockets have to be pleased
While it hasn't been announced officially, it seems that Amare has a 1 cm (diameter) spot on the inside of his left knee that was either bare/nearly bare or had severely torn away cartilage (more likely the former). This is believed to be the root cause of his soreness all summer - bone-on-bone joint movement quickly leads to severe arthritis. That's why they went in to perform this surgery. It really is a small area relative to the articulating surface of the knee, but I'd personally would want more information on where it was in the knee (Tibia vs Femur, anterior or posterior, etc). They've said it's in a less-weight-bearing location, but were otherwise vauge. No matter where it is though, you can place money that he'll be in the same situation or worse in only a couple of years. Evan
Yep, and a doctor's son to boot. I'm just a M.S. in biomedical sciences, though. In particular with this subject, I worked for a couple of orthopaedists in the med center (L Winston, T Clanton), both of whom worked with the Rice athletics dept. Dr Clanton is currently one of the team surgeons for the Texans. Evan
cool. Good stuff, that medical center is impressive isn't it? I wish all major cities have something like what Houston has in that regards
They are splitting carries and both are currently questionable on the injury report because of knee problems. I think the kind of stress being a starting power forward (playing on hardwood) in the NBA is tougher than being a NFL running back. In football it's the actually hitting that usually destroys the joints -- in b-ball it's all the jumping and stop/go movement.
I think Amare will likely come back strong either at the tail end of this season or next year. However, this seems like the kind of procedure that's going to have to be performed on him again at some point... I mean, he's only 22. Knees generally don't get healthier as you age. From reading various articles on athletes who have had microfracture surgery, it seems to me that it isn't necessarily the condition itself or the procedure that can hamper a player badly, but rather MULTIPLE injuries and surgeries that can turn a Penny Hardaway into... Penny Hardaway.
