Sentences with word «microfracture»

Doctors discovered articular cartilage damage, which required arthroscopic microfracture surgery in September.

The researchers detected CO2 bubbling very quickly from the site, presumably from existing microfractures in the sediment.

They posit the possible role of flexoelectricity in the regeneration of bone tissue in and around the kind of microfractures incurred in bones on a daily basis.

The brief return of Sizemore — he came back in April from microfracture surgery on his left knee and slugged.641 with 16 extra-base hits in 84 plate appearances before going back on the DL with a right - knee bruise on Monday — and the resurgence of Hafner bolstered a lineup that is in the top three in the AL in average, on - base and slugging.

The Jags traded up two slots in the second round with Baltimore to pick linebacker Myles Jack, who tumbled out of the first round over concerns he'd need microfracture knee surgery.

We don't feel Myles will need microfracture.

Clearly most general managers were scared off by the fact that Jack could require microfracture surgery in the near future, which caused Jack to plummet precipitously.

While microfracture surgery has been successful for numerous players, most notably Suns center Amaré Stoudemire, the recovery time is agonizingly long.

It's true Kidd's microfracture procedure didn't doom his career and he was older than Paul when he had it.

In its efforts to diagnose microfractures and abnormal bone that would predispose a horse to a full - blown fracture, researchers at the Equine Sports Medicine Program at Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine have been using scintigraphy, a technique in which a horse is injected with a radioactive isotope that isolates skeletal «hot spots» — places where injured bone is rebuilding itself.

«Scintigraphy found stress microfractures in the hind legs, and now I know what to do to help the horse get back into training.

Fracking relies on the high - pressure injection of water, sand, and other chemicals to create microfractures in rock formations, thereby making it easier to draw out oil and gas.

But this dead bone accumulates microfractures and breaks over time, requiring complicated reconstructive surgery or even amputation.

Single - stage cell - based cartilage regeneration using a combination of chondrons and mesenchymal stromal cells: comparison with microfracture.

In the affected water pumps, the pulley or sprocket that turns the timing belt may develop microfractures causing the timing belt to fail.

Just as a stamp tears cleanly along the line of perforated holes, the larger fracture can occur along a line of microfractures.»

-- microfracture knee surgeries and having not played since 2009, Greg Oden won't be game - ready for months.

He sustained a bone bruise to his knee in the preseason and got shelved completely after having microfracture surgery.

Coleman, OTOH, had ground his cartilage down to the bone, hence the microfracture surgery.

Microfracture - generated cartilage is a weak, painful, poorly performing substitute for the real thing.

This may entail making small holes in the bone to allow new cartilage to grow (microfracture), taking cartilage from another part of the athlete's knee and transplanting it into the defect (osteochondral autograft transfer), taking cartilage cells from the knee and then having them grown in a lab for later re-implantation (autologous chondrocyte implantation), or taking cartilage from a person who has passed away and placing it in the defect (osteochondral allograft transfer).

«These microfractures can become a large fracture,» Stover says.

Dr. Sue Stover, one of the researchers, has already made several findings involving «microfractures» in various types of bones in which it was thought such fractures did not occur.

Microfractures, too small to be detected by the conventional X-rays that most track vets use, can lead to unexplained soreness in an animal and to breakdowns.

But last year, even when he was making plays, the effects of the microfracture surgery he had on his right knee in December of his rookie season were still apparent.

Even though Clowney took a big step forward last year, he still had plenty of room to improve if the further away he got away from that microfracture surgery, the closer he got to his peak level of performance.

Individuals were also categorized by those who underwent only ACLR, those who underwent ACLR with meniscus repair, those who underwent ACLR with menisectomy and those with ACLR and microfracture.

In microfractures it is localised to the leading edge or tip of the crack, an atomically small site that, by definition, concentrates the maximum strain a material is able to withstand before full rupture.

This new procedure is being tested on former racehorses and rodeo horses to determine if it is more effective than a commonly used cartilage repair treatment in the U.S. called «microfracture.»

By comparison, microfracture, a surgical technique that involves creating tiny breaks in a bone, bathes an injured joint in a few hundred thousand stem cells.

«Especially when compared to other things like knee replacement or a big orthopedic surgery or microfracture or a laminectomy, the risk profile of this is far less than all of them.»

In fact, researchers have theorized that certain dry foods may be too hard for feline teeth, resulting in microfractures that may lead to FORLs.

Osteochondrosis of medial humeral condyl: removal of OCD flap and abrasion arthroplasty or microfracture of the subchondral bone.

There is visible pain due to microfractures or disruption of the periosteum.