2009 Las Vegas December Champions Week Awards Banquet Denny Hamlin 5th trophy (12/4/2009 | Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR) via nascar-assets.americaneagle.com.
Denny Hamlin Is Going To ‘Knee’d Help To Win Title This Year
I know, I know aweful title but it is all I could come up with. According to SBN's resident NASCAR Guru Jeff Gluck (and you thought it was me) Denny messed up his knee playing basketball and tore his ACL.
If memory serves correct that is the legament that travels across you knee cap from top to bottom starting on the inside or your leg and ending on the outside. The ACL the main front to back stabilizer of the knee.
According to the Gluck article Denny is going to get it surgically fixed during the next off season and the question that is raised is, ‘Why wait so long?”. Because it is a 6-9 month recovery time and he should be able to at least drive a car 2 months post-op.
So what is he going to do in the meantime? Race of course, but I would assume that he is going to have to do a few things to protect his knee like wear a hinged knee-brace like the one pictured below during exercise and probably give up basketball for the rest of the year except for maybe free-throws (no jumping of course).
I think he should also wear the brace while racing too because if he is involved in a wreck and his knee isn’t supported he could cause further season ending damage, or worse yet damage it and then not being able to get out of the car in a hurry if he has to.
All this is depended on the severity of his injury of course, but if it is as bad as the one my friend had a few years ago then Denny is going to be on a long road to recovery. My friend’s was so bad that they had to replace the ACL with a ‘donated’ one from a cadaver after the first repair failed. When it was all said and done it was about a 2 year process.
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