Roy Haggerty wrote:
Has anyone heard anything about Lomax - how his rehabilitation is going, what sort of prognosis we have, that sort of thing ?
Lomax will be in good hands. We're not back in Wild West days of Paul Gascoigne when knee reconstructions were something out of "Future World". The success rate is a lot higher now. The tissue graft is stronger. The recovery time has been cut due to big gains in post-op care and rehabilitation.
That said, the injury still steals some percentage of the player. And it's pot luck how much.
Several years ago I heard that some new and experimental treatment was about to slash recovery times from nine months to three. Given that we're still waiting a season I guess it must have failed clinical trials. We shouldn't lose sight of the fact that before the eighties - this kind of injury was a guaranteed career killer (Brian Clough is one of the more famous tragedies).
Even more amazing is the fact that Tommy Martyn came through several reconstructions (back when the surgery was semi-experimental) and still went on to be the player he was. Although, we shouldn't forget that deities possess supernatural recuperative powers.
