NO ONE OVER 30 SHOULD EVER PLAY BBALL

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Congratulations, you just posted something nobody really cares about to a nearly one year old thread. Who really cares if some over-paid professional got beaned? Just one of the risks they take for all that money.

Assuming Mike sees this, he can delete your post and mine.

Great blog and I hate to interupt but did you guys hear about David Huff? He threw a pitch to A-rod and it was hit back and knocked him out. Check out espn for the story. Again sorry to interupt just wanted to let everybody know.

Rock and roll in two shoes?
Truck on out and spread the news!

Never!

you’re almost ready to go back to playing hoops!

I had one of those pimples at the top of my incision, too. PT called it a blood blister or something. It totally went away. Congrats on making it to the 2-shoes club!

Mike
My guy was definitely on board, in fact he did it. I have heard of it being done at the time of surgery but that was not how we approached it.
He drew a vial of blood and put it in a centrefuge(sp) for a while then he reinjected it using a sonogram for guidance. The whole procedure took about 40 min. I hade none of the residual pain that can accompany the treatment. In fact when I got home I went for a 20 mile bike ride.

Mike

FYI my ortho simply told me that PRP would be used, not the other way around. I believe they tend to do it during surgery because they make the stuff out of your own blood and you’re already hooked up. I really have no way of knowing if it’s effective or not. The theory sounds good though.

Bob P - Did you decide to undergo the PRP treatments on your own or was your surgeon on board with you doing it. I am going in on Wed to see the doc. I am betting he will either tell me it doesn’t help or flat out tell me not to do it cause it will jeopardize “his” repair.

I had PRP treatment after Achillies reconstructive surgery involving a tendon transfer. I had 3 treatments 6 weeks apart. I felt that it was beneficial. A day or so after each treatment I could feel an improvement in strength. It could be my imagination but it seemed to get the repaired area smoother, as in lining up the colligen in a more organized fashion mininizing the scar tissue.
After the first treatment I had the courage to ride hard on the bike standing on the pedals on the hills. IMHO it was the way to go.

Hi Mike,

It’s a promising new therapy, but not much tested yet. My ortho’s guess, when I asked him about it, was that it will be used most for annoying nonsurgical things like tennis elbow. It has been tried with nonsurgical Achilles treatment, and at the time of Achilles surgery, but I don’t know if it has been used after Achilles surgery has already been done. The rupture itself may cause enough inflammation that the PRP won’t have so much to add.

On a related note, I remember worrying that my tendon was so shredded at the time of my surgery, since that would make a messier (and presumably weaker, at least short term) repair. But maybe, in the long run, that’s a good thing, as all the inflammation (over more of the tendon) may do a better job of “treating” the underlying tendinosis that is often what led to the rupture in the first place. That could mean it’s stronger once it heals, in comparison to a “cleaner” rupture that might heal more quickly short term, but leave areas of tendinosis behind that might rupture later on. That’s only speculation.

Perhaps, if you have tendinosis in your other Achilles, (check with ultraso

Also, swelling in and around the injury site is much less now that I am walking. That might be attributable to the sock and boot acting to compress the foot or it could be because of the walking. Either way, I’ll take it.

Hi wubfree,

Ray Fisher is truly old school. He pitched in the infamous 1919 World Series, near the end of his major league career. (For you young folks, that’s the series of the Black Sox scandal, the one that got Shoeless Joe Jackson barred from baseball for life, until his ghost showed up on a farm in Iowa.) Coach Fisher was a great guy and an incredible pitching coach, a real treasure.

My nephew played on that 1997 national championship football team. Interestingly, he’s now training to be an orthopedic surgeon.

And you had your surgery at CPMC. I did my last two years of medical training at the old Children’s Hospital of San Francisco, now part of CPMC.

It’s a small world,

Doug

Doug,

Your story is inspiring. I think I might try to incorporate some of your regimen in with mine. On the doc he is my favorite buckeye right now but we’ll see how the recovery goes before I pass final judgment.

Wubfree,

That was my senior year of college and we just call it a national championship. No need for any of those qualifiers like “Co”.

Mike,

I like the sound of your story. Hopefully I can be looking at something similar when 10 weeks rolls around for me.

Thank you all!

I ruptured mine playing basketball aswell, I’m a few years younger (25) but I was out of the cast in 4 weeks and attended a Met game at the new stadium at about 10 weeks. It was actually the last day I was in the boot, ditched it the next day but felt I needed the extra support for the walking at the stadium and through the subway. Depending on how the recovery is going you should be fine to attend the game. I remember when I got the second cast on at about 3 weeks I couldnt believe how small my leg got, but that was pretty much the low point for the atrophy.

Frieder and Bo! Now that’s old school!

Hoops: I’m probably not going to play much more basketball after this ATR but on the day of my injury, I was having A BLAST up until the “pop.”

My Michigan sports memories: I was at Michigan in the late 90s. The football team was co-nat’l champs (if I recall) AND I saw Brian Griese at Burger King once.

Go Blue!

Hello Fellow Wolverine,

Be careful disparaging basketball, Mike, that was one of my sports in Ann Arbor. (My coach was Bill Frieder, his first year there, my pitching coach was Ray Fisher, and Bo and Woody were going at it when I was there, so you know I go way back.)

Ten-plus weeks postop is exactly where I was when I wrote my long “how-to” note about a fairly fast recovery. I hope you can be ready for that game, even if you are saddled with a buckeye doctor. Does he hide his horns with a surgical cap?

Go Blue!

Doug