Patient Story: Police officer suffers painful knee injury, back on his feet hours after surgery.
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Zahab Ahsan was recently featured in Edward-Elmhurst Health Healthy Driven article, ‘Police officer suffers painful knee injury, back on his feet hours after surgery.’. Here is an excerpt of the article, ‘Timothy Blake has been playing sports since kindergarten. He played baseball in college. Later, as a Chicago police officer, he joined the Chicago Police Finest Baseball Team. The team has played in the First Responders Appreciation Day fundraiser on the Field of Dreams in Iowa, which was used in the 1989 movie of the same name. Blake is a pitcher on the team. He was on the mound pitching in a game against Dallas firefighters in September 2021 when something went terribly wrong. The turf mound was a little wet. At the last minute, he was told he couldn’t wear spikes. He had regular gym shoes on when he started his normal pitching motion. “When I went to throw, I released the ball and I could feel my foot sliding forward,” says Blake. “It wasn’t stopping. I remember telling myself, ‘You have to stop. Your leg has to stop.’ When I came down on it [his knee], it was with my full force.”’
Read the full article here.
