- Sep 16, 2004
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Not different at all (to me anyway). Chick had the option of having the joint fused but he decided to have the finger lopped. The doctors provided the options and he took the course of action the he deemed most appropriate.
So what? The main point with Chick is that he was in pain and needed to take drastic action in order to continue playing footy.
Rodan has been through both procedures and has opted to go for the LARS surgery obviously due to shorter recovery time, because if he was choosing based on what gave him more time on the field, he'd choose the traditional method.
Good luck to him though, but I do think his emotions got in the way. If we're thinking long term then I can't understand why they didn't go with the traditional method. It's a huge risk doing the LARS surgery again, which is the entire point of the thread.