Orthopedic Surgeon writes in to Blazersedge

some interesting stuff

http://www.blazersedge.com/2010/11/15/1816820/brandon-roy-does-not-have-bone-on-bone-knee-arthritis

 

Re: good info from blazersedge

This is the meat of the article. There's a lot of good information in there, but this is the heart of it.

 

So Roy was wrong when he said his knee's are bone on bone?

 

Possibly. The doctor merely says that it's unlikely that it's really "bone on bone".

 

The part that keeps coming back to me is that specialist in LA saying that surgery wouldn't be much help because there doesn't appear to be much to operate on ... that sure sounds like Bone-on-bone, but maybe I'm reading that wrong.

 

I picked up on that too. This doctor seems to think that if it's bone on bone, it would be so bad that he would have to retire. It feels like we're not getting the whole story.

 

worth getting him to have a look at the knee huh , seems to be able to explain shit a lot clearer than anyone associated to brandon that we have...

 

Sweet, more surgeons speculating on Roy's knee. I like that he uses the screen name Odenator69. Somehow, maybe unfairly, but that seems to ding his credibility a little to me. I dunno.

 

It's definitely worth reading. While it is Brandon's own body, he may not be entirely accurate in his medically-related statements.

 

Could be, is that the exact quote: "there doesn't appear to be much to operate on"? Could mean a number of things, i.e. nothing that requires an operation; or nothing that could be helped by an operation. Two very different interpretations of the same statement. Do you have a link to the exact quote?

BNM

 

I'm not sure this changes anything. The fact remains that Brandon Roy has a very painful knee condition that limits his effectiveness on the court. I commented on his less-than-100% effort in the pre-season (for which I was blasted) and it's become obvious that he is not the same player now that the regular season is underway.

Medical explanations are helpful, but I suspect that this knee condition will never go away, and that Roy will have to adjust his play accordingly. That means less cutting, driving, jumping, twisting, and more set-up jump shots. He may make this transition successfully, but we've already seen what a radically different player he is this season.

 

According to my surgeon, everyone is right. he told me that there is probably nothing to operate on, so he is right in saying that surgery isn't an option because there is nothing to operate on. However, the one way to "help" the knee long term is MF surgery. This either could, or could not have been mentioned to Brandon by that Dr.

 

Brandon's direct quote: In a recent Jason Quick interview with Brandon, "the problem is bone-on-bone there," Roy said. "Dr. Roberts calls it 'arthritic knee."

My opinions about Roy are based on that quote, among others.

 

Yet we have first-hand reports from Roy that the LA doctor said that MF wouldn't help his knees.

 

We will see.

 

Quit acting like you knew all along that something was wrong with him. The purpose behind your thread in the preseason was to say that Brandon didn't play with any "heart" and was half-assing it. That players should care more in the preseason, yada yada yada.

Now that we find out that he has a knee injury you act like you knew all along.

 

How often do you talk to your surgeon? Or do you have him on speed dial?

 

So really, what you wanted was him, on a bad knee, to push himself even harder against it, and maybe do more damage? In meaningless games. Noted.

 

He is from Medford, so we struck up a friendship since we both live in the same neighborhood, and both are Oregon transplants.