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Dyer'ere said:
Lonthalion's scoop rang true at the time and I pretty much fully believe it now, clawmeister. But it's all I've got.

Did you read the stuff about Kreuzer? They get a little bump on the top of the femur, the knobby bit that fits in the hip socket, and it chews out the hip cartilage. Career. It's just a little bump and they can get an early diagnosis these days but remember those rumours about Danny? Trained through a hip and didn't tell anyone. Tragedy, if you put the pieces together.

Kreuzer has it but it was diagnosed early (apparently there's something in the running action that gives it away) and he will have surgery... this or next off season. Sorry, can't remember which.
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Ya this condition has a big name that sounds fancy and intimidating, problem is. It is.

It's a relatively new condition in sports, medically too actually. It's hard to pick up and in the past often has been diagnosed wrong. A lot of medical professionals still don't believe it exists. Unfortunately some are going the other way and diagnosing it and ordering arthoscopies and it is often OP (it can be many other things too, back/spine, hip, groin and even stress related). Hips, Knees and shoulders are all complicated joints and Hips are somewhat of the last frontier in a lot of documented conditions.

Carlton new about this before they drafted Kreuzer. (For the record at the draft camp they do in depth skeletal and muscular examinations on each draftee).

What intrigues me is, if after 6 months or so this condition provides symptoms it's wise to start seriously considering surgery, waiting a year can allow serious degenerative damage to start to set in.

It also takes about 4-5mths in a best case scenario to recover from the surgery process involved in this condition.

Definitely an interesting one to watch this, I suspect Kruezers symptoms have been minor, which could be a very good (the onset has been slow) or bad thing (they have misdiagnosed it).

I hope for his sake the club have diganosed it right, they don't always get it right and this is a fairly new area. There were only a few people in Australia last year when I had experience with it who could deal with this specialist surgery. There may very well be more now but the point being, it is a fairly new area.

If he has categorically got it, he has no option but surgery if he wants to keep playing AFL. But wether he does or does not, and let's assume the club has got it right as chances are they have, there are still a variety of complications that can come from the surgery. It's not risk free by any means, no surgery is, but this one more so than common ones done now.

P.S: There is no way you can diagnose this from running action. The only way you can pick it up with some certainty is with a MRI scan, CT scan and arthrogram. (x-rays are tricky things in some cases)
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