Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
If it required surgery its a bad one and likely to be a chronic issue. Surgery is a last resort as chronic pain and inflammation is a common side effect of the surgery itself. The stages the medical team will go through in terms of best case to worse case:
- physiotherapy
- chiropractic therapy
- acupuncture/pain management
- less invasive procedures to aid healing: e.g. ultrasound guided steroid injection into the affected area
- non-re-constructive surgery (I.e. cleaning out a joint of debris and excess tissue or bone mass without touching the ligaments
- re-constructive surgery.
The risks and long term complications increase as you go down that list. Surgery itself is invasive and normally causes inflammation and chronic pain in and of itself.
Arthroscopies are a piece of tinkle and you can be back playing in 3 weeks. There's a big scale.
Lamela's career was largely screwed by not having operations on his hips right when the issue first appeared.