Nalod wrote:smackeddog wrote:Not saying it's this, but just reminded me- whatever happened to micro-fracture surgery? Seemed to be the death knell of many a career then suddenly no reports of anyone having it- What do medical teams do instead?
RedWine baths, Plasma injections, Get Woke, Move to Israel, Take a year off and sign with Portland, Think Michael Porter Jr is the real deal, or go plant based diet.
Ha, found a more accurate article (but you weren’t actually far off!)- Its been replaced by something called OAT surgery, though even that only has a 50% success rate. Chandler Parsons apparently would have qualified for micro fracture surgery. didn’t realize how bad STAT had it after the first micro fracture surgery:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/bulls/ct-spt-nba-microfracture-surgery-amare-stoudemire-20180706-story.html
A 2018 study found that the failure rate of microfracture surgery was 66 percent, compared with 51 percent in patients that had OAT surgery — a procedure in which cartilage is transplanted from a cadaver or another joint in the body. The study defined failure as scoring less than 65 on the Lysholm scale, which measures a patient’s pain, instability, locking, swelling, limp, stair climbing and squatting. This was one of the first studies to compare the two procedures.The study also noted that time to failure was just four years in microfracture surgery patients as opposed to 8.4 years in OAT patients. Put simply, patients reported aggravating systems much more quickly after microfracture surgeries compared with other options.
“The problem is, initial results were good, but when you start to carry those results out further, the results deteriorated,” Douoguih said. “The player might be able to play at the one-year or two-year mark, but then at the four-year or five-year mark, things went downhill. And you took a closer look and found that yeah, those players were able to play — they were on the court — but maybe their numbers weren’t quite what they were before. And there were some cases where the player didn’t get back to play.”
When Stoudemire had microfracture surgery before the 2005-06 NBA season, he was one of the brightest young stars in the NBA. He had averaged 26 points per game (fifth in scoring league-wide) and 30 points per game in the playoffs. Eight days before the surgery, he had signed a $73 million contract extension with the Suns.
According to the news release that went out after the surgery, Stoudemire had been experiencing knee pain for almost two months before the surgery. Thomas Carter, the Suns’ team doctor, had seen the defect in Stoudemire’s left knee on a MRI scan and initially instructed him to rest and undergo pre- and post-play treatment. The pain became more acute during training camp, so the 2003 Rookie of the Year sought the opinion of multiple doctors before opting to have arthroscopic surgery — a procedure in which the surgeon inserts a small camera into the joint to assess the damage. Carter found a one-centimeter defect in the joint and performed microfracture surgery to repair it.
Initially, the Suns thought it would take Stoudemire four months to return. Five months after the surgery, he scored 20 points in 19 minutes against the Trail Blazers but struggled the next two games. Then, after he missed the subsequent four games, Stoudemire decided to have another arthroscopic surgery, which sidelined him for two additional months.
He played just three games that season.
“It took me a year to recover and bounce back,” Stoudemire said, shaking his head. “I followed everything the training staff asked me to do. It wasn’t easy to come back. I was 23 years old and I was contemplating retirement. It was just excruciating. I’d have an amazing day in practice and the next day I could barely walk.”
8/25/2020 4:56 PM
