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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 964464" data-attributes="member: 13032">You make a good point.  If the muscles that support the knee - mostly quads, hamstrings and hips - are at maximum strength, they will support the knee and keep pain down, even if it's bone on bone.  I did this to put off knee replacement for a year, and I'm no football player with the conditioning coaches and facilities they have.There are ways to strengthen the muscles without putting bone on bone - leg presses, wall squats, quad sets - they all work.  If that was all Bakh did, he might be ok playing every Sunday, resting and icing for a day or two, and resuming strengthening exercises.It would still cut short his career, but it wouldn't end it.And yes, I remember Ruettgers.  A great player and a great Packer.</blockquote>

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