atzar
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Post by atzar on Feb 12, 2019 11:55:07 GMT -5
Understand that even if only 5% of people are never the same after TJS, those are still worse odds than if he rests his arm for a while and it turns out that he doesn't need surgery at all.
If the necessity of the surgery is in doubt, then waiting is 100% the right move.
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Feb 12, 2019 12:01:12 GMT -5
I don't get how rest and rehab can heal a torn ligament though. That kind of thing usually needs to be repaired. We've heard of other ways of fixing it, like PRP injections.
We don't even know if rest and rehab was actually what happened here either. Sounds like they rested the elbow to reduce the swelling before considering surgery.
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Post by Chris Hatfield on Feb 12, 2019 12:10:43 GMT -5
... We don't even know... I think this is the point. You've posted 13 times in 16 hours about something we literally have no information about save for the outcome. Let's all just admit we have no idea what medical information was involved in the diagnosis and recommended course of treatment here and move on unless anyone has something new to add, eh?
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Post by pedrofanforever45 on Feb 12, 2019 12:20:01 GMT -5
... We don't even know... I think this is the point. You've posted 13 times in 16 hours about something we literally have no information about save for the outcome. Let's all just admit we have no idea what medical information was involved in the diagnosis and recommended course of treatment here and move on unless anyone has something new to add, eh? That's fine, just odd that a torn ligament was fixed 8 months later. Haven't heard of that before. Usually they find out quickly so they can start the process. Jay Groome for instance was shut down for a month, month and a half. Had the surgery once symptoms didn't go away in late April. Total of two months from start of the pain until the surgery. Raudes was shut down in what August or July? Edit- His last appearance came in June.
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Post by manfred on Feb 12, 2019 12:32:27 GMT -5
My last entry, again personal experience. I had the MRI, and they could see it was damaged, but not exactly the damage. Only when they opened my arm did they know the extent (the main question being if the ligament could be repaired or had to be replaced). Once they actually tried to do a repair did they decide they needed to use tendons from my leg to replace it fully.
Point is: it’s not magic. There is a lot of uncertainty. It is too bad injuries don’t behave and come up only at the most opportune times, but they are stubborn imps.
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