great news on Foster

getting your knee scoped is a pretty minor ordeal. marshall faulk has it done every year when he takes his annual two games off in the middle of the season

 

Well, that's good to hear. But it surely hasn't been minor to Jeffers. I guess it was magnified because he had to have it done right after rehabing his other knee for the torn ACL. I'm sure that didn't make his comeback any easier. I've gotta believe his days are numbered if he's not ready to go here very soon.

"Scoping"- that's where they go in and clean out loose cartiledge, correct?

 

The wonders of google:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/orthopedicsurgery/sports/knee/

Basically, they make a couple centimeter size cuts, stick in a camera and a surgical tool and remove whatever is bothering you (usually cartilage, also used for bone chips)

Really, not a huge deal

I really don't think Jeffer's problems have been caused by scoping. He's got some weird microfracture deal happening.

 

yep. In microfracture, they do a similar procedure at first, they usually take out any harmful bodies - chips, spurs, loose cartilage. Then they basically drill holes into the bone and look to generate cartilage growth. It's a lot worse than the ACL surgery in that it's far less effective and the cartilage doesn't always stick around.

So in the end it's still very rudimentary and will take many more advancements before it's there. It's either that or find some way of artificially applying cartilage to bone and doing it at the level of .000001 inches, and if you can do that by God you're outpacing medical science. It's possible, and I'm sure thought of by now, but it's not feasible for this generation. Maybe your kids will get to see players deal with this as they age. I doubt we'll be able to see it.

 

thanks for the info, guys.