Re: 12/13-12/19 Game Discussion Thread
Two Brandon Roy Notes:
1: gonna miss the next 3 games of roadtrip because of knee soreness
2: the guy with the radical meniscus transplant says:
I performed a menical transplant last week and I can say that Roy is not a good candidate for this surgery.
First and foremost this surgery is relatively new and uncommon with little long-term outcome studies. The ones that have been published are usually short-term (less than a few years), show only modest increases in knee function scores and do not control for elite athletes. Also the best candidates are young patients who have undergone unicompartmental menisectomies with little or early arthritic change and develop effusions with activity. Pan arthritis is a relative factor to NOT do this procedure. From what I hear out of Kerlan-Jobe, Roy has arthritic changes with osteophyte formation in both compartments. That definitely makes him a poor candidate for the procedure. This is a surgery I do for young healthy individuals who are active but not elite level athletes in hopes to push off doing a total joint replacement which is a very poor option in the young. Roy can decrease the pain in his knee by not playing basketball at a competitive level. I would be fine letting my meniscal transplant patient play a game of HORSE once he is fully recovered but not in the NBA.
Two Brandon Roy Notes:
1: gonna miss the next 3 games of roadtrip because of knee soreness
2: the guy with the radical meniscus transplant says:
I performed a menical transplant last week and I can say that Roy is not a good candidate for this surgery.
First and foremost this surgery is relatively new and uncommon with little long-term outcome studies. The ones that have been published are usually short-term (less than a few years), show only modest increases in knee function scores and do not control for elite athletes. Also the best candidates are young patients who have undergone unicompartmental menisectomies with little or early arthritic change and develop effusions with activity. Pan arthritis is a relative factor to NOT do this procedure. From what I hear out of Kerlan-Jobe, Roy has arthritic changes with osteophyte formation in both compartments. That definitely makes him a poor candidate for the procedure. This is a surgery I do for young healthy individuals who are active but not elite level athletes in hopes to push off doing a total joint replacement which is a very poor option in the young. Roy can decrease the pain in his knee by not playing basketball at a competitive level. I would be fine letting my meniscal transplant patient play a game of HORSE once he is fully recovered but not in the NBA.
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