Microfacture surgery vs. Yao's surgery

LabMouse · Jun 7, 2010

Yao's right foot is abnormal, and his left foot is normal just like us. If this is true, his surgery could really solve the problem from the scientific point.

yuisakata said:

Statistics don't mean jack when it comes to individual patients. It's a reference but not a prognosis. Ready for a physiological explanation in layman's terms?

In Yao's case, his right foot was born flat, so that every bone in his right foot has been taking on & sharing the enormous pressure from the right leg.

However, his left foot was normally arched like ours (if your foot's not flat that is). In turn, at certain sections of his formerly arched left foot, there was only a couple bones taking on ALL the pressure on his left leg. And unfortunately that same bone kept breaking because although it was repaired, once Yao was back on the court, the pressure on the same bone's still the same, so from retrospective, his repeated stress fractures were inevitable given his foot's structure.

This time the surgeons basically artificially flattened Yao's left foot so that arch that kept screwing Yao up at end of seasons no longer exists. Now like his right foot, which never had a stress problem, all bones in his left foot now get to share the load, thus giving us a pretty optimistic prognosis.

If Yao can go back to playing condition, it's ON baby!
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