Carson Palmer's New Knee Tendon From Female Organ Donor

[TheNewU]

interesting article, I wonder if her tendon can hold up on a professional athlete.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601089&sid=aMUnEMMK8Vvs&refer=home

Carson Palmer Runs Again on Tendon of Woman Hit by Drunk Driver
Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Julie De Rossi spent the last night of her life passing out fliers for bands she was managing. As she drove home on a Houston freeway, a BMW traveling at twice the speed limit slammed her from behind.

The collision hurtled De Rossi's Volvo into a concrete barrier, crunching the car like an accordion and leaving the 44- year-old mother with only a faint pulse. She died later that day, the victim of a drunken driver.

De Rossi didn't become a meaningless traffic statistic in the early hours of March 17, 2004. An organ donor, she has since helped mend more than 50 people, including Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer, the top-paid player in the National Football League. The knee that Palmer heard snapping apart after a crushing hit during a January playoff game is now held together by Julie De Rossi's Achilles tendon. ...

[BIGJoeSalave'a]

:halo: God BLESS Samaritan Julie De Rossi in the after life!!

[SkinsD]

I thought donor's identity was withheld, either way God bless her.

[Destino]

I didn't realize that his injury was that severe. I don't know much about this stuff but it can't be small if it required an implanted tendon right?

[hkHog]

I didn't realize that his injury was that severe. I don't know much about this stuff but it can't be small if it required an implanted tendon right?

It has nothing to do with severity. With this surgery they either take tissue from another part of your body or a cadaver. They use a cadaver either when you have had the surgery before and they can't take anymore tissue or when a speedy recovery is necessary - an Australian woman in the winter olympics won a silver medal in aerial skiing less than three months after tearing her ACL and they said her fast recovery was because the tendon had come from a donor.

[Kindred]

i wonder how the achilles tendon compares to the knee tendon in terms of strength/durability etc.

[TheNewU]

"Achilles tendon ``is twice as strong as an ACL because of the density and how it's put together.'' "

[JeffSchmeff]

^^^^

I was going to say I bet the achilles is stronger than a knee tendon, but it was just an assumption. I'd like to know this as well.

[TheNewU]

If achilles tendons were easy to come by, I wonder if athletes would get this operation done on purpose, like young pitchers get Tommy John Surgery to make their arm stronger.

[Kindred]

If achilles tendons were easy to come by, I wonder if athletes would get this operation done on purpose, like young pitchers get Tommy John Surgery to make their arm stronger.

The old phrase, if it aint broke, dont fix it. Complications and risk from surgery are not worth having a potentially 'stronger' knee. I dont see any benefit other than that it might reduce the probability of having to require a future surgery...

[tr1]

Wow...this sure puts things in perspective, eh?

[The Animal Trainer]

Everyone should be organ donors. When you think of all the people who die waiting for a liver, heart, or lung, its just selfish not to. I just filled out the back of my license to do it. You should too.

[BIGJoeSalave'a]

Everyone should be organ donors. When you think of all the people who die waiting for a liver, heart, or lung, its just selfish not to. I just filled out the back of my license to do it. You should too.

:notworthy :notworthy Thanks so much for being such a wonderful human being. :applause: God truly BLESS you man!!

[CowboysForLife]

Best wishes to her family...

Palmer better be doing some good things for the family of the lady who saved his career.

Her death was sad, no matter who it helped.

[Passizle]

i wonder how the achilles tendon compares to the knee tendon in terms of strength/durability etc.

I could be wrong, but I think the achillies tendon is THE strongest tendon in the human body.

[Xameil]

I got my ACL fixed the same way, and that kinda reminds me...I never thanked the person I got it from...so whoever you are, wherever you are now...Thank You.