Robert Hall surgery question?

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Why are they waiting four weeks to scope his MCL? I tore the MCL when I tore my ACL, so with a bit of knee knowledge, I know some MCL's are fine without suregery after 2-3 weeks, and I know some require surgery. But waiting 4 weeks to perform that, I don't get?

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Anyone know why other than there being rehab reasons since there maybe damage to the ACL? And if there is damage to the ACL, shouldn't that have been discovered via MRI and those weird push/pull tests they do on your knee?
 
I saw that in the Macon paper. Only thing I can think of us they hope he can get better and play but still don't know why they wouldn't go ahead and scope him. If he needs ACL repair maybe he could get a medical redshirt.
 
After I underwent ACL surgery I saw a noticeable difference in the size of my calf and thigh in my healthy leg and the calf and thigh of the operated one. The operated one looked emaciated, and the healthy one looked normal. Maybe they're beefing up his injured leg so that after surgery there isn't such a dramatic difference in muscle mass...
 
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gtcu17 said:
After I underwent ACL surgery I saw a noticeable difference in the size of my calf and thigh in my healthy leg and the calf and thigh of the operated one. The operated one looked emaciated, and the right one looked normal. Maybe they're beefing up his injured leg so that after surgery there isn't such a dramatic difference in muscle mass...
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Same with my entire leg, and for me, we did do several weeks of rehab before I was able to brace it up and start doing things again. I have no idea about Hall's case because my legs weren't finished growing so I ended up having to wait a year and a half to have surgery. I just played football, basketball, and baseball in a brace and hoped against hope that my knee didn't go out. Oh but it did several times.

I hate knee injuries and certainly hope he gets everything figured out, still have no idea about the surgery delay though.
 
sometimes they wait for the swelling to go down, but 4 weeks? sounds like a doctor availability thing
 
4 weeks sounds about right to allow swelling to go down before scoping something.

First of all, I'm not an orthopedist, but I've seen plenty of legs with ligament damage in the trauma bay. A badly torn ligament may result in a lot of bleeding and swelling. There could be enough bleeding that it may make interpretation of the MRI difficult. Physical tests may be inconclusive, that may be why they are going straight to arthroscopy as the MRI didn't clear things up.
 
i guess i should say it,..... i told you so!:biggthumpup:
 
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