Sentences with phrase «microfracture surgery»

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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

«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.»