Just came across this and figured some of you would be interested. The article just says that Michael Clayton had his knee scoped, but that it wasn't a big deal.

These surgeries seem so much more prevelant now than even a few years ago. Either there are more of them happening, or they're just being reported more frequently.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=fanball-buccaneersclaytonhas&prov=fanball&type=lgns

I remember not too long ago that getting your knee scoped was a big deal and took months to recover. Glad to see improvements in the medical field.

I'm got a query that is sort of along the same thread:

How come when an NFL player tears an ACL or MCL, they are automatically out one year or more, but when a collegiate player does the same, they can be out for much shorter periods?

There has to be a better explanation than "the body heals faster because of the younger age" which somebody told me once.

Ok, so it's actually much different than the knee scope, so sue me. . .

I don't thin kit has much to do with age, especially when you're only talking aboiut a few years. It depends of the severity of the tear, where it is, how much collateral damage was done, how much scar tissue developes, do they have to go back in a second time to clean it up, etc.

Heck, I'm 50 and had my need scoped to fix a tear and was playing tennis a month later at about 90%. By friend had the same procedure and it took him 3-4 months to recover to 90%. Same procedure, same hostpital and same doctor.