CB surgery - is this posted elsewhere ?

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Can't be arsed to look for the details of this if they've already been put up, but Bellamy's out until September after keyhole surgery on his knee in the states, according to teletext.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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Response to Is this posted elsewhere ?

Absent prematurely.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

Response to Is this posted elsewhere ?

make that November then.... :-(

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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There doesn't appear to be anything on the net about this.

If the story is true, something smells fishy - key-hole surgery doesn't usually take 4 months to recover from! It sounds pretty serious to me.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002


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Unsurprisingly, nowt on ".co.uk" about this story - although they have reported on the U-17's 3-2 win at OT, so things are looking up!

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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The only thing the Ceefax report seems to see as a worry is whether or not he'll make the Euro qualifiers for Wales. Not a peep about Euro qualifiers for us.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002


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A few days ago it was reported he was seeing Steadman in the States. I think that was in the local press.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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He may have a recovery program similar to Shearer's, which I think took quite some time. I'm just glad to hear he was finally sent to Steadman.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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Time we signed Steadman onto the payroll.

-- Anonymous, May 06, 2002

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I had been in contact with NUFC re our (failed) player of the year presentation and they told me he was off to see Steadman. I posted it on here I think. I had hoped it was only precautionary. Typical this is. No Bellamy for Euro qualifiers. He shouldn't have been training and trying to play for the last 3 months then obviously.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

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Actually there is something in the Online Sun about this. A 'club source' reveals he will be fit for start of the season. Out for 12 weeks apparently. Lets hope he's right. More worryingly the article states that the club had hoped rest would cure the problem but 'finally admitted defeat' when it didn't improve. I'm with Ciara on this - put Steadman on the pay roll and get his advice as soon as a problem occurs, not wait around for weeks, hoping it will 'clear up'.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


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Funny how you get a single person who seems to be the world expert on something. This Steadman fellow seems to have risen to miracle healer status. It's like Red Adair (spelling) who seems to be the only guy in the world who can put out a fire.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

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www.teamtalk.com (for all it's worth):

Euro green light for Bellamy ^top Craig Bellamy has been told he will be fit for the start of Newcastle's Champions League campaign in August, despite undergoing a knee operation. There had been fears that the Wales international striker would be sidelined for at least four months following keyhole surgery on his tendinitis-ridden knee at the Colorado clinic of specialist Dr Richard Steadman. But Bellamy has been told by Steadman that 12 weeks' complete rest will cure the problem, allowing him at least a fortnight to prepare for The Magpies' Champions League qualifying-round first-leg tie on August 14. Bellamy has made just one brief substitute's appearance since being diagnosed with tendon trouble following the win at Sunderland in February, as manager Bobby Robson attempts to ensure he will be fit for the start of next season. Steadman has already cured a similar, if more serious, problem in Newcastle skipper Alan Shearer's left knee and also operated successfully on another United striker, Carl Cort.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


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From this morning's Journal:

"Craig has been assured that the operation will be a success and he will be fully fit come August," explained a source close to Steadman.

Part of a much longer article.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


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IMHO: sell Cort, loan Ameobi, support LuaLua; buy a top-shelf striker (e.g. Jardel) well before the CL campaign. Bloody hell if we try to qualify in the CL with AS and CC up front!

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

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"......the article states that the club had hoped rest would cure the problem".

Presumably, that rest cure included training for several weeks in the hope he could play again this season, being on the bench against Charlton and playing 45 minutes v Blackburn?

"Bellamy has been told by Steadman that 12 weeks' complete rest will cure the problem - allowing him at least a fortnight to prepare for The Magpies' Champions League qualifying-round first-leg tie on August 14."

Ah well, that's OK then - 2 weeks training and no competitive action after 6 months out, including knee surgery for a career-threatening injury, should be more than enough!! No further comment is necessary.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002



Sounds to me that the operation was an exploratory key-hole operation, and the verdict was that there was nothing further needed to be done, apart from rest. ie Steadman confirmed what others had felt. Obviously just my reading of the situation, but that's my take. What does Dr Bill think?

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

Exploratory key-hole surgery? Why ask Dr Bill? Wouldn't Lloyd Grossman be more appropriate? "And whose knee do you think this is?"

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

The vista of possibilities opens up before our very eyes.

We could have 'Changing Knees' in which managers of different clubs decide on the course of treatment to be followed in different knee injury scenarios for selected opposition players, hoping that each player's own manager is over the moon with the results.

ITV Digital wouldn't have had a care in the world if they'd forked out for the rights to show that at peak viewing time.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


Hmm. Perhaps a Through the Key-Hole meets the Lancet type program, where a probe is inserted into the anatomy of a celebrity, and a panel has to guess who. If on Sky, I can imagine them disappearing up Alex Ferguson's arse. As for the clues - lack of sunshine, superfluity of sh@t, and evidence the area is used frequently as a mouthpiece.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002

The scope for surgical TV is definitely under-explored. It's an open and shut case - could go through the ratings like a knife through, er subcutaneous fat? I'd like to propose a new version of The Golden Shot - Through the Laparoscope:

Bernie, the laser... Up a bit... Left a bit... Down a bit.... Shoot... Oh sorry love, there goes the common bile duct, you won't be going home with a star prize, and I do hope your defense society premium is up to date - see you all next week!

Btw, like PM I guess that young Craig had a diagnostic scope only - I'd want to rule out a problem with the back of the patella before being confident it was tendinosis. Twelve weeks rest sounds fine, if only they had done that the first time - but how that could possibly leave him fit for the CL Qualifier on 14 August baffles me.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


I don't see how this surgery couldn't have taken place right after the injury occured.

We are taking a hell of a long time to learn with these things, yet normal fans can spot a familiar pattern occuring:

Player gets injured. They spend a few months out. They come back. They suffer a recurrence. They go to see Steadman. They're out for even longer. They then come back again, but take a while to get fit again.

For examples read Shearer, Cort (and Dyer saw some German bloke I think, the equivalent of Steadman only for shins)

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


Paul - it seems likely that Steadman used a key-hole procedure purely to check visually whether the tendon attached to the back of the kneecap had indeed healed completely, and possibly to check on progress of the associated tendonosis (ie. inflammation). Steadman now seems to be saying that 12 weeks rest should clear up the tendonosis.

My beef is why CB was undertaking training for several weeks with a view to playing when he quite clearly should not have been. This has undoubtedly retarded his full recovery and now leaves him with the possibility of having only two weeks training before being thrown into a highly competitive CL Qualifier.

I don't give a sh*t what other Clubs do, but it is quite clear to me that NUFC do not take a professional approach to such matters - what's more if we hadn't achieved CL when we did I think it is entirely probable that CB would have been thrown back into action.

-- Anonymous, May 07, 2002


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