Richard Steadman, the orthopedist who performed Martin’s surgery in Vail, said Thursday that he performed several successful microfracture procedures on professional basketball players.

Microfracture surgery is a 30 to 90 minute procedure used to repair articular cartilage, in which doctors create tiny fractures in the bone, causing new cartilage to develop.

The left knee surgery Texas left-hander Derek Holland had last week did involve a microfracture procedure, the team said Tuesday. Holland had the surgery to repair torn cartilage underneath the ...

A 2018 study found that the failure rate of microfracture surgery was 66 percent, compared with 51 percent in patients that had OAT surgery — a procedure in which cartilage is transplanted from ...

First, age 40 is the threshold when microfracture becomes less viable because the body's production of stem cells, essential to the procedure, has slowed. However, with the advances being made ...

The surgery performed on the right knee of Jadeveon Clowney is designed to grow new cartilage and help this year's No. 1 NFL draft pick resume his career next season as a linebacker with the ...

Justin Turner’s knee surgery included microfracture procedure Justin Turner steals third base against the New York Mets in the third inning of game five of the National League Division Series at ...

But microfracture surgery, a new, radical procedure, has given players hopes and taken the sports world by storm. The outpatient procedure can take as little as 30 minutes.

— -- NEW YORK -- Fearful his career could be in jeopardy, CC Sabathia had trouble sleeping as he awaited word if he needed microfracture surgery or a less serious arthroscopic procedure on ...

Turner revealed last weekend that his recent knee surgery included a microfracture procedure, the Los Angeles Times reports. Speaking at Adrian Gonzalez's charity softball game, Turner said that a ...

It’s a blistering Friday afternoon and a shirtless Amar’e Stoudemire is lying face down on the carpeted floor of the downtown Westin’s Garfield Park conference room. The six-time NBA All ...