tell a patient WHILE THEIR KNEE IS IN A CAST, what the prognosis is??? I am no doctor, but i know that a doctor wouldn't give a prognosis like the one Keith received while the patient was still in a cast! Usually they wait until a few weeks after the removal of the cast, they try therapy, and other methods before telling someone devastating news like that.

I think it would all depend on how bad the break was. When I broke my wrist the doctor told me that I wouldn't be able to bend my wrist back, only to a certain point, and he was right.

i due to have wrist surgery myself in several weeks...my doctor told me what may or may not occur after...but he wasn't definite.

when I had my back surgery, I was immobilized from my chest down for three months. I felt like the surgery didn't work...the orthopedic surgeon told me we must wait until I was no longer wearing that "thingamajig", try therapy, pool exercises before he could be definite whether the spine would be the same again.

The people who wrote this obviously didn't follow sports because the way they wrote Keiths situation is nothing close to how it would happen in real life .

The people who wrote this obviously didn't follow sports because the way they wrote Keiths situation is nothing close to how it would happen in real life .
Very true. Besides, this was the late 1970s, before sports medicine and physical therapy and such became the norm.