Zero2Cool
13 years ago
http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/96194464.html 

[img_r]http://media.jsonline.com/images/440*335/ppddrive11p.jpg[/img_r]Donald Driver not only feels great after he had arthroscopic surgery on both knees in January, but the Green Bay Packers wide receiver wishes he had the procedure years ago.

Driver was in the Milwaukee area Thursday and Friday to support Packers teammate Greg Jennings in his fund-raising efforts for Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity and the Greg Jennings Foundation.

Driver said he hadn't told anyone other than the Packers staff that he was playing with limited range and flexibility as well as pain last year. It wasn't until last Wednesday, when Packers coach Mike McCarthy admitted that Driver and linebacker Nick Barnett had both had knee scopes. Both players had been held out of off-season practices and are working with a group of rehabilitating players.

Driver, 35, said he had the knees scoped by team doctor Pat McKenzie in January right after the season ended.

He said he hasn't been practicing in any of the organized team activities, although he has been cleared to go by trainers. Driver said the Packers told him to take a break during on-field work but to stay around for team morale, so he's been working out with teammates like Charles Woodson.

"I'm on that senior citizen program," Driver said, laughing.

Before the surgeries, his right knee had become so inflexible he couldn't bend it, not for squats, not even to pull his ankle back just to do a quadriceps stretch.

Driver, who caught 70 passes for 1,061 yards and six touchdowns last season, didn't say much publicly about his knees in 2009 but pointed out that at some games last season his knees were wrapped to keep them warm and protect them.

"I feel so good now," Driver said. "The trainers said, 'You look 25 again.' I had the scope because I want to play until I'm 40. I wanted to extend my career another five years.

"I should have done it years ago," he said. "I played like this for two, three years, with pain. I can jump now. I can squat.

"I didn't say anything about it because I didn't think it was that big of a deal. I'm fine. I feel good now."


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Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago
Wow. A football player who couldn't squat. I'm amazed he even passed his physical. I wonder if we'll see an increased burst and more speed this year.

Good for him.
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Greg C.
13 years ago
Does anyone have any idea what the doctor actually did? How does "scoping" a knee make it better? They must've removed some cartilage or scar tissue or something, right?
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Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago
Usually they remove fragments, yes, which can be chips of bone or bits of scar tissue. In this case it almost sounds like he'd had some degree of calcification or fusion of his joint and that they removed excess tissue. It's impossible to know, though. I'm just happy to hear he's regained mobility.
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yooperfan
13 years ago

Does anyone have any idea what the doctor actually did? How does "scoping" a knee make it better? They must've removed some cartilage or scar tissue or something, right?

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I had my right knee scoped a month ago.
He took out a floating piece of cartilage and trimmed up the miniscus as well as some bone spurs.
Now my knee doesn't lock up anymore.
Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago
Why did he trim the meniscus? Had it grown overlarge?
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yooperfan
13 years ago

Why did he trim the meniscus? Had it grown overlarge?

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It was torn and had a ragged edge.
Nonstopdrivel
13 years ago
Thanks for the clarification. It may help us to understand Driver's situation better.
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RajiRoar
13 years ago
Driver is such a good fella, if this surgey keeps him around any longer its a WIN.

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TengoJuego
13 years ago
The part about Driver playing until he's 40 put a smile on my face. I hope he does.
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