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Max Gawn's knee

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It's early Dawes but he's not Gawn yet.

Demons manager of football Josh Mahoney said: "Max has injured the same knee which was medically repaired when he ruptured his ACL in 2011.

He is likely to require surgery to repair his damaged meniscus.

A further review of his ACL graft will need to be undertaken during surgery to confirm this diagnosis.

What this means is that there's still a risk of an ACL if the surgeon notices anything untoward with his ACL graft when the damaged meniscus is repaired.

At least it's not as bad as was first thought and with luck he'll be right to go in early 2015 pre season training.

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    "The initial reports from the scans have shown that his ACL is stable but there is damage to his medial meniscus."

    From Dees website, so it appears not to be an ACL. But this of course will be confirmed during surgery.

    I am a stupid arse when it comes to this stuff.

    What does that mean in dumb arse language?

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    Watts Gawn Dunn to his knee?

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    I didn't think a meniscus can be repaired?

    If it's a small tear, then the torn bit is just snipped off, using keyhole surgery...right as rain in no time!

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    I am a stupid arse when it comes to this stuff.

    What does that mean in dumb arse language?

    Damage to the cartilage pad on the inner side of the knee joint. Dumbed down enough?

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    Damage to the cartilage pad on the inner side of the knee joint. Dumbed down enough?

    Dah tanks ox

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    His last ACL injury was thought to be just a meniscus injury until surgery, if I remember correctly. Not out of the woods yet.

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    His last ACL injury was thought to be just a meniscus injury until surgery, if I remember correctly. Not out of the woods yet.

    correct. it could also be a major inoperable meniscus tear that won;t be known until surgery time

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    Posted Today, 09:13 PM

    A damaged Meniscus is still a bad injury. if it is probably torn it will require stitches to repair. The repair process still takes many months of intensive physiotherapy!

    Given Max Gawn has had two reconstructions on the same knee this is still not good news.

    If he has done his ACL I'll call it! I reckon he may well be Cactus! Unfortunately! Three ACLs for a big man is not great!

    Some Knee reconstructions go extremely well due to the fibres of what is left of the severed tendon still being more or less intact and partially attached to the knee.

    This is at the better end of repair as when the graft, ( generally taken from the tougher hamstring tendon) is used the fibres tend to attach better if there is something left still attached to the knee. If not the graft is completely new.

    A secondary meniscus tear either partial or full to the meniscus( cartilage) is at the upper severe end of Knee surgery!

    The reason for this is because the cushioning agent cartilage ( meniscus) does so much more work

    As I have said two previous reco's mean that the knee tendons are more vulnerable than ever.

    It seems that even though some specialists believe that a repair strengthens the actual joint through a tighter knee. specific physiology of the patient means that this factor is very "Hit and Miss"

    Specific quad strength is the key to both strengthening the knee and promoting a better base of strength and stability.

    I hope his Meniscus is not torn and that his ACL is not anything other than a minor strain!

    I hope!

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    Yep, says he "dodged an acl".

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    Gawn just posted on Instagram that no problem with ACL and that he will be back training in 10 weeks

    Yep, says he "dodged an acl".

    10 weeks until he can train will eat a bit into his preseason preparations, but, for MFC, is is a reasonably good bit of injury news.

    Go Max !!

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    Good news. I think we all know he's likely to have troubles with that knee for the rest of his career but if managed well there's not reason he can't give us quite a few years of really good footy.

    Anyone got any updates on who else has to have post season surgery?

    Pedersen with his nose but that's not too big a deal. Gawn, Spencer, Trengove now rehabbing.

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    We'll take any good news at present.

    Onya Max.

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