C Greg Oden (All B1G, All-American, Defensive Player of the Year, Butler Assistant Coach)

[osugrad21]

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June 15, 2006

Oden surgery set for Friday
By Jeff Rabjohns
[email protected]
Two-time national high school Player of the Year Greg Oden will have surgery Friday to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist.

The 7-foot Ohio State-bound center from Lawrence North suffered the injury Feb. 28 and played in six more high school games and two all-star events. Leading experts say rehabilitation can take anywhere from four to six weeks to several months.
“We look forward to getting Greg to The Ohio State University for summer school Monday and starting his rehab process to get him back as quickly as possible,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said in a statement.

Division I college basketball teams can begin individual workouts Sept. 15, and practice can begin Oct. 13. Ohio State hasn’t released the date of its first game.

Oden has been under the care of doctors at The Indiana Hand Center. He has not been evaluated by Ohio State medical staff, but his rehabilitation will be supervised by the Buckeyes training staff once he begins class on Monday, school spokesman Dan Wallenberg said.

Oden hasn’t played since the Roundball Classic on April 9.
Oden is the marquee attraction in several early season games arranged by television networks, including a Nov. 29 date against North Carolina in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

Call Star reporter Jeff Rabjohns at (317)-444-6183.

 

[BuckWrestler141]

Here's to hoping Greg makes a speedy recovery. How does this affect his olympic team plans?

"Oden, the 7-foot Ohio State-bound center considered the best high school player in the country, has agreed to join 23 NBA players in the camp to be held July 19-25 in Las Vegas, USA Basketball Managing Director Jerry Colangelo confirmed Wednesday."

Well if it was healed in exactly four weeks he'd be alright to play, but my guess would be that he will attend and watch instead; it's a real shame too, he'll have his chance to play in the real olympics soon enough though.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

I doubt he will attend the Olympic try-outs at this point. I would imagine he will be off the court until sometime in late August or early September. Best to get it taken care off now.


Dispatch

6/16/06

OHIO STATE BASKETBALL

Oden to undergo wrist surgery

Friday, June 16, 2006

Tim May and Bob Baptist
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




Prized 7-foot Ohio State basketball recruit Greg Oden will undergo surgery today to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist, OSU coach Thad Matta said yesterday.

"We look forward to getting Greg to the Ohio State University for summer school Monday and starting his rehabilitation process to get him back as quickly as possible," Matta said in a statement released by the school.

Oden could not be reached for comment.

An Ohio State spokesman said the surgery will be performed in Indianapolis.

The consensus national high-school player of the year who led Lawrence (Ind.) North to three straight state championships suffered the injury in February. According to a report in The Indianapolis Star, doctors first waited to see if it would heal on its own.Tests this week showed it did not.

Oden and Lawrence North teammate Mike Conley are expected to start summer school at Ohio State on Monday. Oden’s projected recovery period won’t be known until after the surgery.
The Star reported that Oden played in six high-school games — the stretch run to that state record-tying third straight championship — plus two national all-star games after suffering the injury. He was hurt Feb. 28 when he fell on the wrist during a sectional playoff game. He has not played since the Roundball Classic on April 9 in Chicago.

 

[hoopsfan]

Guys, I know this isn't what anybody is hoping for or wants to hear, but per Greg he is expecting to be out for 6-8 months. He had a repeat MRI and just found out in a follow-up visit yesterday that the ligament is completely torn. He is expecting to have pins inserted that will not be removed until probably October. He thinks he could play in December at the earliest. He is pretty bummed out by the whole thing, but this shouldn't be something that will affect him long-term once it gets fixed. Just keep him in your prayers -- surgery is scheduled for 1:00 today.

EDIT: I will let you know when I hear something re: his surgery, what they actually did, prognosis for when he can return, etc. Probably won't be until Monday, though, as I will be gone for the weekend.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Guys, I know this isn't what anybody is hoping for or wants to hear, but per Greg he is expecting to be out for 6-8 months. He had a repeat MRI and just found out in a follow-up visit yesterday that the ligament is completely torn.

Worse case scenario. :( Please keep the updates coming. I would suggest everyone wait until after the surgery to start speculating on his rehab time. 6-8 months is worse case scenario in my opinion.

 

[buckeydoptimist]

Most reports say 4 months tops. GO may be bracing himself for the worst case so that anything else is great news. I just hope it gets taken care of permanently for him.

 

[jwinslow]

Guys, I know this isn't what anybody is hoping for or wants to hear, but per Greg he is expecting to be out for 6-8 months. He had a repeat MRI and just found out in a follow-up visit yesterday that the ligament is completely torn. He is expecting to have pins inserted that will not be removed until probably October. He thinks he could play in December at the earliest. He is pretty bummed out by the whole thing, but this shouldn't be something that will affect him long-term once it gets fixed. Just keep him in your prayers -- surgery is scheduled for 1:00 today.

EDIT: I will let you know when I hear something re: his surgery, what they actually did, prognosis for when he can return, etc. Probably won't be until Monday, though, as I will be gone for the weekend.

thx for the update, we will all be pulling for him.

 

[hoopsfan]

Most reports say 4 months tops. GO may be bracing himself for the worst case so that anything else is great news. I just hope it gets taken care of permanently for him.

I think that is very possible. At first he said 8 months -- I said "you mean weeks, right?" and it was "No - 8 months". As the conversation went on it became clear that was probably the worst case -- they expect the pins to come out in about 4 mos (again, worst case) -- rehab from there. Hopefully it will be pins for 2-3 mos., rehab 1-2 mos, back playing 3-5 mos.

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Even with 5 months for recovery, he should be full go by the time camp opens in October.

Greg, have a speedy recovery.

 

[jwinslow]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2488133

INDIANAPOLIS -- With Ohio State coach Thad Matta in the waiting room for what seemed an eternity, 7-foot prize recruit Greg Oden had surgery Friday to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist.
Oden, Indiana's Mr. Basketball and national prep player of the year last season at three-time state champion Lawrence North, is expected to be out of basketball at least several months, his high school coach, Jack Keefer, said Friday night.
Keefer and Matta waited during the two-hour operation at the Indiana Hand Center.
"It seemed like forever," Keefer said. "The doctor said everything was fine."
Oden hurt his wrist during a game in February but played with the injury through the state tournament and then in two national All-Star games. Another visit to the doctor and a follow-up MRI early this week showed the injury had not healed, forcing him to drop out of the two-game Indiana-Kentucky All-Star series this weekend and next.
"It was a complete tear," Keefer said. "They put a screw in there, a clamp and whatever they do in there, and he [the doctor] felt very good about what took place."
The coach compared the injury to a torn ACL in the knee and said the ligament in the wrist is what gives a player the ability to grip the basketball.
"You've just got to fix it. Fortunately they went in there, because it wasn't a partial tear. It was out," Keefer said.
Matta said Thursday that Oden planned to enroll at Ohio State for summer school on Monday and to begin his rehabilitation in Columbus.
Keefer said no immediate timetable was given for Oden's recovery.
"It's not today or tomorrow, that's for sure," he said. "It's months out. ... They've got such an awfully good way of checking things anymore, so they can see the progress being made.
"I don't know if he'll start the season [with the Buckeyes] or not, but somewhere along the way he'll get in there, I'm sure," Keefer said.
Oden's high school teammate Mike Conley, a guard, also is an Ohio State recruit. Both were selected to The Associated Press' all-state first team.

 

[akronbuck]

theres talk on other sites that he'll have to red-shirt this year but, I hope it is just talk but, he might have to because, i had surgery on a small part of my wrist in january and I finally got released from my doctor and my hand is still screwed up. I have to take it very slowly with a cast on while I try to work out again with no type of boxing/martial arts for along time if ever again and that really sucks for me because, thats my free medication I use to relax. When I read he got a MRI that really got me thinking because, thats the only thing that picked up my fracture in my wrist AFTER they tried 2 different x-rays showing nothing wrong with my hand. I got those screws and clamps to and the only good thing for him is that mine was bone fracture and his was a torn ligament, so it should not be as bad as mine. He can rebuild that a lot better and faster but, it will take some time to get the hand back to the way it was before and to be able to use it in contact. I really hope its not close to his wrist because, mine was in my wrist and my bad hand can't bend up and down like my other hand. I hope he gets a stimulator to keep on his hand 12 hours a day because, that will speed up the recovery and healing time. I tried that before surgery and after for months .

 

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Sounds like things went smoothly and now its up to how fast his body recovers......

Dispatch

6/17/06

OSU MEN’S BASKETBALL

Oden has surgery on wrist

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




The surgery yesterday on the torn ligament in the right wrist of Ohio State’s prized basketball recruit Greg Oden "was very successful," his highschool coach said.

"He’s doing fine, and I’m told it was a very successful surgery," Lawrence North coach Jack Keefer said of the procedure which was performed in an Indianapolis hospital. "The doctor explained it to as it being like fixing the (anterior cruciate ligament) in the knee.

"It had to be done. There was almost a complete tear (of the ligament). But this was good time to do it."

Keefer said it’s not clear how long Oden will be sidelined. The 7-footer, the consensus national player of the year, is expected to start summer quarter at Ohio State on Monday. Joining him will be his high-school teammate Mike Conley, another member of the Buckeyes’ celebrated incoming class.

"The doctors now want to watch the wrist and see how it progresses," Keefer said.

Oden first injured the wrist when he fell on it during a state playoff game Feb. 28. He played six more games on the way to the state title plus two national all-star games, the last one the Roundball Classic on April 9 in Chicago.
"We had it examined after he first injured it and there was actually an MRI done on it after the Roundball Classic that showed there was a partial tear but that it was healing," Keefer said. "But something happened since that MRI. He had been wearing a splint. I don’t know if it rotated on its own or what, but it became an almost complete tear."

 

[hoopsfan]

The update I got yesterday -- the surgery was very successful, but it is very probable that Greg will be out at least 6 mos. The reason is this -- the ligament was detached from the bone, and they had to re-attach it with screws. The determining factor in his recovery time will probably be how quickly the ligament "re-attaches itself" to the bone. No amount of therapy or anything else can speed this up, but the doctor told Greg he thought at least 4 months for it to heal properly. As we all know, that could be shorter or longer and the time until he sees the court could therefor be anywhere from 4-5 up to 7-8 mos.

Greg and Mike are planning to be on campus today to begin summer school. His recovery and rehab will be handled by the OSU staff as I understand it now.

 

[jwinslow]

thanks for the update, glad to hear everything went smoothly.

 

[osugrad21]

Link

June 19, 2006

Surgery could cost Oden six months
By Jeff Rabjohns
[email protected]
Greg Oden will miss the beginning of college basketball season if his rehabilitation from wrist surgery takes as long as expected.
Oden’s father, Greg Oden Sr., said his son told him prior to Friday’s procedure that doctors thought rehabilitation would take six months.
“That’s what they told him, six months,” Greg Oden Sr. said this weekend. “I haven’t talked to him since the surgery, so I don’t know what’s going to happen with rehab and all of that. But they said six months.”

Oden, a two-time national Player of the Year from Lawrence North, had surgery at the Indiana Hand Center to repair a torn ligament in his right wrist. Afterward, Lawrence North coach Jack Keefer said doctors inserted a clamp and a screw into Oden’s wrist. Keefer said doctors likened the surgery to repairing a torn anterior cruciate ligament in a knee and termed the procedure “a success.”

“It’s not something that’s going to take a few weeks or a couple months,” Keefer said.

Neither Oden nor his mother, Zoe, have talked publicly since the surgery. The doctors involved are prohibited by law from commenting without family consent.

Oden was scheduled to begin classes on today at Ohio State. Buckeyes coach Thad Matta, who was in Indianapolis Friday for Oden’s surgery, has not commented on his star recruit’s recovery.

Ohio State spokesman Dan Wallenberg said Oden saw Buckeyes team doctor Grant Jones on Monday. Oden will see Jones once a week, but “his main evaluation is going to be once a month,” Wallenberg said.

Oden was scheduled to play with USA Basketball’s senior men’s team, from which the 2008 Olympic team will be chosen, in Las Vegas in late July. Though it’s almost certain Oden won’t be able to play, USA Basketball spokesman Craig Miller said Oden may still make the trip to attend meetings, meet Olympic coach Mike Krzyzewski spend time with USA men’s basketball director Jerry Colangelo.

A six-month layoff would put Oden back in action Dec. 16. Ohio State hasn’t released its full schedule, but that would include the marquee game of the Big Ten-ACC Challenge, Nov. 29 against North Carolina, which pits the nation’s top two rated recruiting classes.

Should Oden play, the game would also be a rematch of a nationally televised high school game between Tyler Hansbrough, last year’s national freshman of the year with the Tar Heels, and Oden.

Lawrence North beat Hansbrough’s Poplar Bluff (Mo.) team 56-40 Dec. 9, 2004, at Hinkle Fieldhouse. A junior at the time, Oden had 16 points, five rebounds and two blocked shots. Hansbrough, a senior, had 16, 12 and one.