Riewoldt's Knee

[lendog heaven]

Knee? You mean knees. He had more ice strapped to him than a member of the Moran family at Chasers.

like it.......

[Unforgiven]

Should be right by the looks of it. His kness ain't top notch currently, but aint to far off. He might get the odd niggle to it, but nothing he can't run off.

[ausfatcat]

With King's knee there's very little cartilage so apparently there's no cure because there's nothing to operate on. The joint's deterioration is so bad that it is basically just bone on bone now.

Voss and Mcleod have/had this as well. It's actually fairly common but to varying degrees, the swelling and pain can be managed on match day with pain killers and lubricant injections into the joints, Hamill also had a very very bad case of this amongst other knee problems.


Amazing in this thread alone we have several diagnosis of Roo's knees.

[fonz_#15]

Different sport but there are early similarities between Riewoldt and Tottenham's captain Ledley King who's almost 29 now.

King has had chronic knee problems throughout his career and is currently being "managed" in the same way. I just hope Roo's knee doesn't deteriorate to the same extent.

It is said that King's knee swells up so badly after a game that it takes a week for the swelling to go down therefore he is limited to cycling work between games - no running whatsoever. He has a short half hour session the day before a game and even then must ice his knee such is the swelling.

With King's knee there's very little cartilage so apparently there's no cure because there's nothing to operate on. The joint's deterioration is so bad that it is basically just bone on bone now.

A week doesn't go by it seems without seeing Riewoldt limping. It may not be a major concern now but hopefully something like that doesn't affect him long-term. Such a great player who can become even better, terrible to think that an injury could prevent him from being the best footballer he could possibly be.

King's situation is horrible, its unbelieveable that he can stil play top level sport being so badly hurt.

[Beej]

With King's knee there's very little cartilage so apparently there's no cure because there's nothing to operate on. The joint's deterioration is so bad that it is basically just bone on bone now.

Voss and Mcleod have/had this as well. It's actually fairly common but to varying degrees, the swelling and pain can be managed on match day with pain killers and lubricant injections into the joints, Hamill also had a very very bad case of this amongst other knee problems.


Amazing in this thread alone we have several diagnosis of Roo's knees.

Know anything about knee-cartilage transplants?

How successful are they?

[Beej]

Different sport but there are early similarities between Riewoldt and Tottenham's captain Ledley King who's almost 29 now.

King has had chronic knee problems throughout his career and is currently being "managed" in the same way. I just hope Roo's knee doesn't deteriorate to the same extent.

It is said that King's knee swells up so badly after a game that it takes a week for the swelling to go down therefore he is limited to cycling work between games - no running whatsoever. He has a short half hour session the day before a game and even then must ice his knee such is the swelling.

With King's knee there's very little cartilage so apparently there's no cure because there's nothing to operate on. The joint's deterioration is so bad that it is basically just bone on bone now.

A week doesn't go by it seems without seeing Riewoldt limping. It may not be a major concern now but hopefully something like that doesn't affect him long-term. Such a great player who can become even better, terrible to think that an injury could prevent him from being the best footballer he could possibly be.

King's situation is horrible, its unbelieveable that he can stil play top level sport being so badly hurt.

And as good as he has been, it's still a travesty to think that we'll never know how good he could have been.

[ttufc7]

I think he's missing a PCL in that knee,

If he had no pcl the knee would dislocate very easily and he couldn't play. He may have a partial tear thou and still play but their is no way he could play without one at all.

No offence mate, but I know what I'm talking about and clearly from your comment you don't.

No offence to either of you but I dont think you are correct.

Maybe I should clarify. I'm not 100% sure whether Rooey is missing a PCL or not (hence my comment "I think"), but from the vision I've seen I feel he may (you may know more than me Plugger).
What I'm not too thrilled about is people making incorrect medical statements when they don't have the knowledge.

No need to fight here fellas its a great day!

Lets just say he's missing both ACL's and is still playing on such is his determination to bring the saints a flag!!!!!!!!!!!

Im thinking like a six million dollar man type scenario over the off season!