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Biotech / Medical : Genzyme Tissue Repair (GZTR) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bobb who wrote (2471)	1/17/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: wiz	Respond to of 2553

Bobb I never said it would be easy, just easier!-g- One of the side effects of having the graft taken from the patellar is that the patient has to be very careful during rehab not to agravate the patellar or tendenitis can set in. Also there is a bone chip taken out of the knee cap with the graft that helps the new "ligament" attach to the hole they drill though the femur. Remember Jerry Rice pretenting to be a superhuman and play football after only 3 months of rehab? The knee cap is relatively brittle for quite a while after that surgery(the new graft is at it's weakest after 3 months). He was lucky it wasn't worse. Yea arthritis is the hard one. This genzl procedure works best in 20 year olds....duh!-g- God definitly wasted youth on the young!-g- P.S. I think the posibility your sister IS using the injury as an excuse is pretty good. If she really worked on her rehab, she would hardly know which knee the surgery was done in. But it takes an ungodly amount of rehab.-g- Mark