stu holden

thought it was just the cartilage that was damaged been on a few sites and most of them say its 6 weeks recovery time

The pins moved in his knee and it was the pins that have caused the damage

yeah i know probally just our luck at the moment most people are out for 6 weeks and holden out for 6 months nothing going write our luck must change soon

ooc I did my cruciate ligament when I was sixteen and was out for nearly a year. Then a week after I got back I tore the cartilage. That put me out for another year and it was eight months before I could walk without crutches. A strained cartilage can be sorted in a few weeks,. If it's just come a bit loose from the bone it can be a coyple of months but if the synovial membrane has broken and the cartilage has actually torn it can take years and some people never recover. Twenty years ago a torn cartilage was a definite career killer so I suppose we should be grateful that with modern surgical techniques and advanced therapeutic approaches to rehabilitation Stuart will get back to fitness and may even play this season.

There really are a myriad of possible injuries to the joints but journalists tend to lump them all together and say ligament damage or cartilage damage which could be anything from a little stretch to a catastrophic collapse.

cheers for the update everything seems to be against us at the moment just hope we can keep out of relegation zone till stu comes back we mite just have awesome team for last 8 games

They are graded as they are very different and often difficult to diagnose properly until the knee is opened up.

Owen Hargreave's Knee ligament injury kept him out for over 3 years!

Owen Hargreave's Knee ligament injury kept him out for over 3 years!
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so this technichaly COULD be the end of his career...
im gonna go and have a little cry :'(

Sadly we better plan for life without Stu. He could be one of those guys who oft gets injured and who knows if he will ever get back to the level of play. And to heap on the misery ...what's to say chungy will get back to his level. He wasn't up to par after being knackered towards the end of last season.
Can anyone name a player who came back from a double fracture to be as good as he was before? I can't think of one off the top of my head.

nothing but doom & gloom bet if holden is looking at this it will make him very happy,

I have doubt stu will come back stronger than ever was just saying just our luck that he is out 6 months on not 6 weeks we just can't get a break