Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by nixluva:

Man I just hope Lee is gonna be alright. I hope SOMEONE can figure out what is wrong with him. You know he had INDEPENDENT medical exams done. So it's not like this is all to blame on the Knick Doc's. Also David doesn't HAVE to play if he can't go. Even if the Doc's clear him he is the final authority on how much pain he's in. If I was Isiah I wouldn't have let him play again anyway. I would've made him prove that he could play without pain 1st. If I saw him wince just once that would be it.

It's odd cuz you'd think that someone would be able to figure out why he isn't getting better. How many MRI and scans does it take to see if something isn't right?

Do you know for a fact he had INDEPENDENT medical examinations?

I think he went to see his own doctor. But we don't know what that doctor told him about returning to play.

Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by nixluva:

Man I just hope Lee is gonna be alright. I hope SOMEONE can figure out what is wrong with him. You know he had INDEPENDENT medical exams done. So it's not like this is all to blame on the Knick Doc's. Also David doesn't HAVE to play if he can't go. Even if the Doc's clear him he is the final authority on how much pain he's in. If I was Isiah I wouldn't have let him play again anyway. I would've made him prove that he could play without pain 1st. If I saw him wince just once that would be it.

It's odd cuz you'd think that someone would be able to figure out why he isn't getting better. How many MRI and scans does it take to see if something isn't right?

Do you know for a fact he had INDEPENDENT medical examinations?

This seems like it was a tricky injury. From looking at it i would never have thought it would be what it's turned out to be. It looked like your standard ankle sprain. While I can understand the Knicks Doc's looking in the wrong place originally, understand that i'm not clearing the Knicks medical staff for getting it wrong in the 1st place, but since then he's had other medical opinions:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba/blog/2007/03/david_lee_could_miss_34_more_w.html

"Lee’s prognosis was proved to be significantly worse after he received a second opinion from Dr. David Porter in Indianapolis yesterday. Lee could miss 3-4 more weeks, putting him dangerously close to missing the rest of the regular season, with what a CT scan proved is “something in between a bad bone bruise and a stress fracture.”

Lee initially was told by the Knicks’ medical staff that the injury he sustained from landing on Milwaukee center Andrew Bogut’s foot on Feb. 23 was a high ankle sprain that would keep him out for “days, not weeks.”

After practice today, Lee spent as much time defending the Knicks’ medical staff and blaming himself for his slow recovery as he did talking about the injury itself.

And unfortunately for the Knicks, who desperately need Lee’s rebounding and energy off the bench to hold onto the eighth playoff spot, the prognosis could get even worse before this is over. Porter, orthopedic consultant to the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana University, and Purdue University, is still reviewing Lee’s MRI results.

“The doctor in Indianapolis said that, in his opinion, it could be as much as 3-4 [more] weeks before I was back seeing action,” Lee said. “Although he’s still looking at the MRI’s today, he saw the CT scan that I had as well as the X-rays, and said that he would classify it as something in between a bad bone bruise and a stress fracture.

“Now don’t hear the stress fracture part and go there. It’s more so that you could possibly be classified somewhere similar to a stress reaction. I don’t believe it’s going to be a full stress fracture – and they’re still looking at the MRI – but it’s more going to be along the lines of a stress reaction, something that is similar to a bad bone bruise, and it’s just going to be time that’s going to heal it.”

Lee said Porter indicated that none of the shooting and conditioning work he’s been doing since the injury have hurt his recovery, that there will be no limitations on what he’ll be able to do once he comes back, and that there’s little risk of re-injuring the leg."

Posted by nixluva:

Posted by TrueBlue:

Posted by nixluva:

Man I just hope Lee is gonna be alright. I hope SOMEONE can figure out what is wrong with him. You know he had INDEPENDENT medical exams done. So it's not like this is all to blame on the Knick Doc's. Also David doesn't HAVE to play if he can't go. Even if the Doc's clear him he is the final authority on how much pain he's in. If I was Isiah I wouldn't have let him play again anyway. I would've made him prove that he could play without pain 1st. If I saw him wince just once that would be it.

It's odd cuz you'd think that someone would be able to figure out why he isn't getting better. How many MRI and scans does it take to see if something isn't right?

Do you know for a fact he had INDEPENDENT medical examinations?

This seems like it was a tricky injury. From looking at it i would never have thought it would be what it's turned out to be. It looked like your standard ankle sprain. While I can understand the Knicks Doc's looking in the wrong place originally, understand that i'm not clearing the Knicks medical staff for getting it wrong in the 1st place, but since then he's had other medical opinions:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/basketball/nba/blog/2007/03/david_lee_could_miss_34_more_w.html

"Lee’s prognosis was proved to be significantly worse after he received a second opinion from Dr. David Porter in Indianapolis yesterday. Lee could miss 3-4 more weeks, putting him dangerously close to missing the rest of the regular season, with what a CT scan proved is “something in between a bad bone bruise and a stress fracture.”

Lee initially was told by the Knicks’ medical staff that the injury he sustained from landing on Milwaukee center Andrew Bogut’s foot on Feb. 23 was a high ankle sprain that would keep him out for “days, not weeks.”

After practice today, Lee spent as much time defending the Knicks’ medical staff and blaming himself for his slow recovery as he did talking about the injury itself.

And unfortunately for the Knicks, who desperately need Lee’s rebounding and energy off the bench to hold onto the eighth playoff spot, the prognosis could get even worse before this is over. Porter, orthopedic consultant to the Indianapolis Colts, Indiana University, and Purdue University, is still reviewing Lee’s MRI results.

“The doctor in Indianapolis said that, in his opinion, it could be as much as 3-4 [more] weeks before I was back seeing action,” Lee said. “Although he’s still looking at the MRI’s today, he saw the CT scan that I had as well as the X-rays, and said that he would classify it as something in between a bad bone bruise and a stress fracture.

“Now don’t hear the stress fracture part and go there. It’s more so that you could possibly be classified somewhere similar to a stress reaction. I don’t believe it’s going to be a full stress fracture – and they’re still looking at the MRI – but it’s more going to be along the lines of a stress reaction, something that is similar to a bad bone bruise, and it’s just going to be time that’s going to heal it.”

Lee said Porter indicated that none of the shooting and conditioning work he’s been doing since the injury have hurt his recovery, that there will be no limitations on what he’ll be able to do once he comes back, and that there’s little risk of re-injuring the leg."

What was tricky? Lee injury or handling of the injury

Posted by arkrud:

What was tricky? Lee injury or handling of the injury

Posted by islesfan:

How does any of that explain that after he came back early once, he was activated again and was noticeably limping and wincing in pain but was allowed to finish that game and then a part of another game before they finally realized that what they were doing was completely asinine.