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Post by irish2u2 on Apr 8, 2009 10:20:40 GMT -5
Gallo had successful surgery on Tuesday. He had a laminotomy which is where surgeons shave down a bony plate that is irritating a nearby nerve.
Gallo had a bulging disc in his back which eventually did recede. The pain did not and at best Gallo was 70% healthy this year. Now, with 6-8 weeks of rehab, Gallo should be as good as new. The success rate on this surgery is 90% but given Gallinari's age and physical conditioning I would imagine he is closer to 95% certain this will fix his back.
He may still feel some discomfort from time to time though it is more likely he will not. He should be good to go in July to start working out and practicing for the coming season. We all saw the little glimpses of major game in this kid and that was with a very painful back injury.
The conclusions I draw is we saw very little of his top end game and a lot of how tough he is to play with such a painful injury.
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Post by whensly on Apr 8, 2009 13:51:04 GMT -5
how the heck do you know the surgery is successful?
I read the press release stuff too.
maybe we should wait and see how he recovers and progress's before we declare the surgery a success.
"the patient is dead, but we did the surgery right"
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Post by irish2u2 on Apr 8, 2009 16:25:30 GMT -5
how the heck do you know the surgery is successful? I read the press release stuff too. maybe we should wait and see how he recovers and progress's before we declare the surgery a success. "the patient is dead, but we did the surgery right" Gee Mouse, get up on the wrong side of the bed today?  Call it an act of faith but when his surgeons and an outside medical source call it a "successful surgery" I tend to believe them. I imagine they can send Gallo's chart and X-Rays to me but I wouldn't know crap about them. What I do know is this surgery wasn't extremely complicated. Now ask me how I know this and I'll tell you my best friend had the exact same surgery. He's doing great. He was also 43, a little over weight and he didn't have a Dream Team surgeon to perform his operation. BTW, surgery is one thing. Rehab is another. I made no comment on his rehab. |
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Post by whensly on Apr 8, 2009 16:41:28 GMT -5
yeah I did get up in a pissy mood today,
and my BS detector is set to acute.
we don't even know if the surgery was the right one to fix gallo for good,
this could be one of many.
trumpeting press releases from the knicks and hospitals tells us nothing.
I hope it takes and he's good to go, and put on some of eddie curry's weight and muscle
but no way to tell for a while.
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Post by irish2u2 on Apr 9, 2009 17:00:48 GMT -5
yeah I did get up in a pissy mood today, and my BS detector is set to acute. we don't even know if the surgery was the right one to fix gallo for good, this could be one of many. trumpeting press releases from the knicks and hospitals tells us nothing. I hope it takes and he's good to go, and put on some of eddie curry's weight and muscle but no way to tell for a while. Sorry my friend but I can't "trumpet" anything. Can't play a note . Go back and read the original post. I use the conditional tense as in "Gallo SHOULD be as good as new" and I give all the facts like the surgery has a "90%" success rate. Successful surgery means the issue the surgeons went to fix was fixed. By law they can't say it was successful unless they achieved their goals. Doctors and hospitals are very sensitive in their public statements as they can be the first exhibits in a malpractice suit. Further I saw something good in this report past the surgery and rehab and that was that the bulging disc had receded. That's huge. That's the part of this injury that takes the most time. I stated on AOL I had a bulging disc in my mid 20's so I know the injury and I have a friend who had a laminotomy 3 or 4 years ago. Those experiences are also part of my conditional optimism that Gallinari will return healthy. There are no guarantees. It's especially true of back injuries and all thorough the year I did express concern that a kid as young as Gallinari should have back issues. I did NOT trumpet the press release. On the other hand I didn't play the harp either. |
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