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It started with a thigh bruise and it turned into a hyper-extended knee, the only thing that I can find are Doc's reassuring words when he sat him

"It's funny -- as far as injuries go, I'm actually far more concerned with [Rondo's] than with Kevin's," Rivers said. "Kevin I'm sitting down, but Rondo I'm watching closely, because with a hamstring, that's a tough injury. He did strain it a little bit, but if it's anything, if I see anything in the game, he's out, too."
http://nba.fanhouse.com/2009/12/30/kevi ... ee-injury/

I've had a couple of knee surgeries and I understand cartilage, ACL and MCL surgeries, but what is a hyper-extended knee, is it the operated knee, does it involve the tendon reattachment, and is it potentially career ending like Bob Ryan said the other night (Miami)?

Anyone got any inside info or any ortho knowledge?

As for medical knowledge I'll refrain from giving my optimistic and completed uneducated opinion here, but Bob Ryan is part of the sports media who's job is to embellish any drama they can get their parasitic little claws into. If a sports journalist sounds like he is embellishing something he probably is and if he doesn't he still probably is. **** a grain of salt, these people need to be taken with a plow truck loaded with halite.

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... _dec_28th/

Celtics coach Doc Rivers said on Monday night that forward Kevin Garnett has been resting quite a bit since he last played in a game.

Rivers has held Garnett out since Dec. 28, when he logged 31 minutes against the Warriors.

"He's been shooting and stuff," Rivers said prior to Boston's game against Atlanta. "But no running or anything like that."

Doc's trying to get blood out of a dried up turnip.

So we got one championship and about half a season out of KG.

It was worth it but I thought we'd get more out of him than that.

Hyperextension in when the joint goes past the point where it normally would stop flexing. When your knee is bent that is flexion, when your knee is straight that is extension, when it goes past straight (sort of like bending in the opposite direction it is supposed to) that is hyperextension. I don't know exactly what damage it can do to the joint though.

where is our resident prof of medicine?

3pt % wrote:where is our resident prof of medicine?

I am an endocrinologist and an internist, and I know very little orthopedics.

3pt % wrote:where is our resident prof of medicine?

Unlike the silly doctor shows on TV where every doc does every single specialty on different days (LOLOL), in the real world, we do one specialty at a time. In my case, it is endocrinology and internal medicine, and NOT orthopedics or cardiovascular surgery or whatever.

It's starting to sound like last year.

exculpatory wrote:

3pt % wrote:where is our resident prof of medicine?

Unlike the silly doctor shows on TV where every doc does every single specialty on different days (LOLOL), in the real world, we do one specialty at a time. In my case, it is endocrinology and internal medicine, and NOT orthopedics or cardiovascular surgery or whatever.

c'mon Doc, time to earn that "House" nickname

It's obvious we're getting the same BS as last year,
when KG was gonna be right back and ended up having surgery at the end of the season
without ever returning.

I wondered if those Rondo Alley oops we're good for a guy
with a staple in his knee or whatever else we haven't been told.

This is much more serious than the Celtics are willing to let on.

Just like last year's operation was a lot more than "bone spurs."
Last year they were afraid KG's knee would lock up,
which was evident in his gait running the court as early as November 2008.

Now, we're still not getting the full story.

mzepol wrote:It's starting to sound like last year.

Wasn't it an hyperextension injury last year also?
Hyperextension could mean anything, from just a sprain to actually tears of tendons, depending on the degree of hyperextension and the state of the ligaments.
I'm sure an MRI was done, any news yet?

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hypere ... ee/AN00283

It doesn`t look good. I don`t believe anything Rivers or the management say about KG`s injury, I just hope he will be able to play in the playoffs...