Official Oden Knee Injury News Thread

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  1. Strike

    Strike Under The Cyanide Sun

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    You're right. Don't know where I got that idea about Oden. My mistake.
     
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    Also, as a Portland born and raised, I do want to see Oden recover from this.
     
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    Just for the record...I was just making a guess about what the media will say, not saying I thought it was appropriate.
     
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    I'm pretty sure it applies to anybody's misfortune. But you do make a good point. This crap couldn't be happening to a less deserving player.
     
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    How do you fracture your patella just from jumping? Sad to finally admit it, but he's severely injury-prone.
     
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    Does this pile of shit live in Portland?

    I wouldn't mind paying him a visit to give my take on his comments.
     
    LittleAlex, Dec 6, 2009
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    A classless take from a Laker fan?

    No way that happens.



    Feel free to drink a tall frosty glass of liquid drano.
     
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    As far as "how can this happen just from jumping", one of Maxie's links said that a sudden contraction of the quadriceps muscle (like, tensing to jump) can stress a patella to the point of fracture. My editorial is that if there's already a crack, and you've been beasting weights in lower-body workout recovery, that a really strong quad + cracked kneecap = broken patella just from jumping.
     
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    Oden's bones are now breaking with no contact from other people. I'm trying to find a positive in this injury, but I can't.
     
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    You should offer yourself as the team's trainer. Clearly you have the answers.
     
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    It seems he couldn't do worse.
     
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    I'll have to see Brian's MD credentials before agreeing with what seems like your ignorant statement.
     
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    There is no "positive" to the injury, it's a straight negative. The saving grace is simply that the injury is not the type that is either chronic or ability-altering. Obviously if he keeps suffering injuries, he'll end up as a disappointment or a bust. But fortunately, this injury (and his previous injuries) don't make future injuries a fait accompli. That's definitely good.
     
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    Sounds like a short lived injury and I am glad no tendons or cartilage is involved.
     
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    Has any other NBA player ever suffered this same injury?
     
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    Unfortunately, that's smoothing over a gigantic IF.
     
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    I don't have MD credentials. So I editorialized after I read some of the material in MaxieP's links, something I'm not sure that anyone else did (who also seem to be making medical opinions).

    But if it makes anyone feel better, I talked to an orthopedic surgeon friend of mine, and they said that, while not seeing the charts, etc. non-contact patella injuries aren't extremely rare, especially in active younger people.

    I don't want to be the team's trainer. But I can generally do research and answer questions.
     
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    How is it "smoothing over?" It's acknowledging the possibility. I'm certainly not willing to, at 21, assume his career is already determined.

    If it happens, it happens. If not, great. Both are possibilities, and I don't think any of us know the probabilities of each.
     
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    Because you framed it as a possibility, not the likelihood that is, thus minimizing the magnitude of the "if." Oden came into the NCAA injured and missed half his time there, then came into the pro's injured and will have missed two-thirds of his time by the start of year 4. And his injury history goes back even further...
     
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    You mean when he was 8 and 9 years old?

    I just read an interview with Oden's HS coach who claimed he only missed one game due to an ankle sprain.

    Where did you see Oden had a history of injuries prior to his Freshman year at Ohio State?
     
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