Muston maybe out for the season?

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The Hawthornfc web site reports the following:

"Hawks confident in Muston’s recovery
2:38:02 PM Fri 9 December, 2005
hawthornfc.com.au
Hawthorn is confident Its no. 22 draft pick Beau Muston will be training with the Club early next year after last night’s revision to his reconstructed knee resulted in the replacement of the graft.

Although Muston was managing well there were some signs the graft and screws had loosened slightly. It was determined the most appropriate action was to revise the graft now, at the commencement of his AFL career.

GM Football Operations Mark Evans said the revision would provide Muston with maximum stability and strength in his knee.

“The graft and attachments were replaced to give him the maximum long-term playing career,” he said.

Muston will participate in limited fitness training when the players return after Christmas, Wednesday 4 January 2006. He will resume running later in the month or early February. He will progress into skills training by March.

At number 22 Muston was the fifth draft pick for the Hawks.

“Muston was too talented a player to overlook in the recent draft and we are confident that once he has fully recovered he will an exciting and valuable player for many years at Hawthorn,” Evans said."


However the Herald Sun reports
"Hawk out for season
10 December 2005 Herald Sun
Michael Stevens

HAWTHORN recruit Beau Muston has had a second knee reconstruction, which will sideline him for most of the 2006 season.

Orthopaedic surgeon Julian Feller performed the surgery on 18-year-old Muston on Wednesday night.

The original graft on his left knee had not taken, so the Shepparton teenager required a new graft to repair his knee.

Hawks football manager Mark Evans yesterday tried to put a positive spin on the surgery, saying the original knee reconstruction had been revisited and the old graft replaced.

But sports medico Peter Larkins said last night that if the original graft was loose it meant the first reconstruction had not worked.

"It's unfortunate, but he's back to square one and that means a minimum nine to 10 months rehabilitation," Dr Larkins said.

"If he had a graft from his patella tendon originally, they would do the opposite and take a graft from his hamstring.

"The graft not taking is a risk with everyone who has a knee reconstruction.

"David Schwarz, Shaun Rehn and Josh Francou all needed their knees to be done again."

Evans said Muston had been managing reasonably well, but arthroscopic surgery on Wednesday night had revealed the original graft and screws had worked loose.

"The surgeon thought it was the most appropriate action to revise that graft now at the start of his career," Evans said.

"He's had the graft replaced, but because it's been surgically removed and surgically replaced the damage to the knee is quite minimal and he'll recover quite quickly.

"The good thing is the graft and the attachment being replaced now will give him the maximum benefit for the long-term of his playing career."

After Christmas, Muston will resume some modified swimming, running and walking training, and he will be running by early February. "


Lets hope the Hawks are right and not Dr Larkins.
 

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As a person with a history of major surgery I have learned to go for second medical opinions in prognosis. My history also reveals that there were times when first opinions turned out for the best but there were other times when the second opinion worked.

Medicine is a science of mystery ... all of us have varying metabolisms hence treatment can work out differently for each person.

Our club, in picking up injured kids, espoused in media releases that thorough medical assessments had been carried out before selections.

I'm sure our medical advisers at Glenferrie are doing everything in good faith.
 

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I think it was an advisor who said that because of the possible short distances between the 2 operations, the 2nd operation wasn't going to affect the kid as much as if it was reconstruction several years after he did the first one.

Hopefully he doesn't have to have another operation, but if he does hopefully it won't affect him to much long term
 

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Gary Shadforth said:
As a person with a history of major surgery I have learned to go for second medical opinions in prognosis. My history also reveals that there were times when first opinions turned out for the best but there were other times when the second opinion worked.

Medicine is a science of mystery ... all of us have varying metabolisms hence treatment can work out differently for each person.

Our club, in picking up injured kids, espoused in media releases that thorough medical assessments had been carried out before selections.

I'm sure our medical advisers at Glenferrie are doing everything in good faith.
I would say so to, but remember that we had so many picks, so unlike all other teams we could afford the risk associated with picking him up. He is a talent and I hope his talent comes to fruition
 

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Hawks Doc on 3AW.

He was running at 75%, graft was getting looser. Scar tissue building up.
Unique sitiuation.

Doc told him that he would return probably the same time with the surgery as he would have without the surgery (after July).
 

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You'd probably imagine (not meant as a slight against the original surgeon) that at AFL level we'd be able to give him the 'top doc' in the field (or at least I'd hope so).

Personally, no worries about him missing the full season if that is what it takes for him to fully recover. He's a kid afterall, doubtful the side will miss him overmuch in the short-term.
 

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You would think even if he did miss the season due to a limit on his running capacity, that wouldn't stop him from spending time in the gym bulking up for 2007.
 

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Jeff always did have a fine collection of spin doctors working for him when in government. Saw on the Hawks website they referred to his second op as a 'revision of the draft'. Translation, he just had another knee reco. I hope the kid can beat this latest setback because he's probably got more raw talent than Murphy.
 

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pieman1 said:
Jeff always did have a fine collection of spin doctors working for him when in government. Saw on the Hawks website they referred to his second op as a 'revision of the draft'. Translation, he just had another knee reco. I hope the kid can beat this latest setback because he's probably got more raw talent than Murphy.
Well it was a revision, not a total reconstruction. Any tampering of the knee can be labelled as some sort of 'reconstruction' if you like, but he does not need to have his whole knee done again.
 

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