gunsnewing wrote:CrushAlot wrote:gunsnewing wrote:yellowboy90 wrote:I saw some tweet where they think it is loose cartilage or something.
Sounds like microfracture. H20 v2.0 for 5yrs
Really? I heard it was similar to what Early had done.
Then he needs to fix it now before its bone on bone
Not even close to the same thing. A loose fragment is not the same thing as needing Microfracture surgery.
Loose bodies are free floating fragments of bone, cartilage, or collagen in the knee or any joint effected. The most common location is the knee. When these fragments get trapped between the articular cartilage surfaces of the knee bones (like the femur and tibia), they can cause symptoms such as:intermittent joint locking,
limitation of motion,
knee Pain and
sometimes swelling.
There are other types of loose bodies that are not so loose. The fragments attach into the bursa sac that prevents friction between bone and soft tissue structures or the synovium, the soft tissue between the cartilage and bone. Most loose bodies do not produce symptoms and are found incidentally on X-ray. In fact, the diagnosis of loose bodies is essentially based on X-ray findings because there is not one specific clinical finding.(1)
Loose bodies in the knee were one of the reasons that “clean out” arthroscopies became so popular. There are many different types of loose bodies, but some do represent chips of cartilage or meniscus.
Pain due to actual erosion of the cartilage to the point of bone on bone is a much more serious problem. No one has said Melo has that serious level of cartilage damage.
1/7/2015 5:26 PM