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Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine, Neal S. Elattrache, Book - Barnes & Noble
He's one of the top guys in the field.
Tiger Woods didn't go to James Andrews, either. He had his ACL reconstruction done by two other top guys in the field, Dr. Thomas D. Rosenberg and Dr. Vernon J. Cooley in Park City Utah. Rosenberg is a pioneer developer of some of the techniqus and surgical tools for knee reconstruction.
BTW, James Andrews is nearly 70 years old. While he's a very fine doctor, you generally look to the younger guys for the state of the art surgical chops at any given time. Reconstructive knee surgery has been evolving at a very rapid pace over the last five years or so.
This love-in for Andrews reminds me of the adoration for draft prospects for no reason beyond having heard the name.
ElAttrache wrote the textbook on sports injury surgery.
Surgical Techniques in Sports Medicine, Neal S. Elattrache, Book - Barnes & Noble
He's one of the top guys in the field.
Tiger Woods didn't go to James Andrews, either. He had his ACL reconstruction done by two other top guys in the field, Dr. Thomas D. Rosenberg and Dr. Vernon J. Cooley in Park City Utah. Rosenberg is a pioneer developer of some of the techniqus and surgical tools for knee reconstruction.
BTW, James Andrews is nearly 70 years old. While he's a very fine doctor, you generally look to the younger guys for the state of the art surgical chops at any given time. Reconstructive knee surgery has been evolving at a very rapid pace over the last five years or so.
This love-in for Andrews reminds me of the adoration for draft prospects for no reason beyond having heard the name.
I think Andrews is more like House, a genius diagnostician for sports injuries. I'm not sure how many actual procedures he performs.
In that story about how Brady proposed to Gisele, she says that she told him not to kneel because he had had three surgeries on his leg because of staph infections.
Did we know that? I can't remember. I do remember Curran sounding alarm bells about the knee and being mocked (and mocked to this day) here over it.
Weren't there amputation rumors ?
But the Boston Herald has reported that the infection is more serious than Brady's posting suggested. Citing an anonymous source, the Herald said Brady has actually undergone three washout procedures and that the infection stemmed from an unexpectedly complicated procedure.
In addition to the ACL tear, Brady's medial collateral ligament was also torn, the newspaper said. Dr. ElAttrache expected it to have healed in the four weeks after the initial injury, but discovered it was not when he attempted the ACL repair, according to the report. The Herald said he made a second incision to repair the MCL and the infection started there. Brady is now on a six-week course of intravenous antibiotics, according to the report.
Update 10/24 –Boston Herald:
“According to the source, during the process of the reconstruction, while Brady was under anesthesia, ElAttrache realized the knee was still unstable after moving it around because the MCL hadn’t fully healed. It was decided at that point to also repair the MCL, and, according to the source, that’s the incision that ultimately became infected. To make the MCL more sound, ElAttrache had to make a separate incision from the portal hole used for the ACL repair, the source said.”
Famed sports orthopedist, Dr. James Andrews:
“Neal called me in confidence to run this problem by me to see what I thought . . . We went over that, one, he should be aggressive about going back in, don’t wait on it, don’t let [the infection] continue to declare itself. Get it washed out and scope it. And I said he’d probably have to re-scope it several more times to make sure he got it under control.”
I remember someone on here e-mailed Curran about that and got a response that just said "FU".Yeah, Curran pushed that panic button and the resultant mass hysteria was epic.