2014 Recruits

[01Neaggrad02]

When I commented about Banks coming back... I did not mean anything by it other than normally when people come back from an injury like that they tend to take some time to get back into game shape and it takes a while to get them back to the type of player they once were. I am trying to remember the last ACL tear where the person came back the next season with the same spring in their step the same speed, the same in general.

 

[VAMike23]

Reality check? In what way?

You are comparing two very different injuries when comparing Greene and Banks.

http://blogs.courant.com/uconn_womens_basketball/2008/03/womens-basketball-kalana-green-3.html

Good point, and excellent data re: Kalana's knee injury. I had also forgotten that hers was that serious, involving also the meniscus and the LCL.

 

[JRRRJ]

I wasn't replying to you just to John Glass's question. Fact is that the recidivism rate is relatively low in most of the articles I've read but the one key element is the speed of return. Enough time must be given for complete healing and one of the central issues is that pain sensors are damaged through the surgery and the athlete may not be able to judge pain and stop to rest soon enough to avoid damage. That is where UCONN's great medical and training staff come in.

You're a curmudgeon compared to me when it comes to optimism.

Ice, the only damage to nerves occurs when a compromised ACL is replaced with a patellar tendon autograft. In that case (like mine) a palm-size area of skin on the lateral side of and just below the kneecap loses sensation due to the incision where the graft is harvested. It feels weird, but has nothing to do with judging stress or overuse of the muscles, ligaments or structures in the knee.

 

[Icebear]

Ice, the only damage to nerves occurs when a compromised ACL is replaced with a patellar tendon autograft. In that case (like mine) a palm-size area of skin on the lateral side of and just below the kneecap loses sensation due to the incision where the graft is harvested. It feels weird, but has nothing to do with judging stress or overuse of the muscles, ligaments or structures in the knee.

Simply reporting what was cited in the linked studies. I have no basis one way or another to judge the situation. I can say that I still have nerve/sensory issues in my knee where I had the quad reattachment. Whether those nerves were affects from the original tear or the reparative surgery I can't say.

 

[chrissaran]

Wilson, Westbeld and Gussert.